Sunday is The Due Day

There’s an old Hungarian saying:

If you walk up behind a fencer with a balloon, pop it!

If it’s a foilist he will lunge instantly

If it’s an epeeist he will just stand there

If it’s a sabreur he will turn around and kick the **** out of you.

-oOo-

Sunday is the due day. It’s up to us whether we will stand at the podium holding out a medal and having a face plastered with a victorious smile or…

Go back home with our heads held up high and maybe,

With our heads hanging so low and with tears streaming down our face.

Which one?

It’s 10% what happens to us and 90% how we are going to respond to it.

It’s fine being cocky. Just don’t underestimate your opponent.

We don’t have any ball to be past to, it’s just our own opponent and us.

We may not be knights in shiny armours but we are fencers.

And fencers play metal sticks with style.

Don’t underestimate us because…

The foilists will stab your chest until it has thousands of holes

The sabreurs will slice your body completely with no mercy at all

The epeeists will bind all of your moves and left your pride down in the mud

----ooOOoo----

My fencer fellows and I are going to go on our very first competition on Sunday.

One thing for sure is that I don't aim for the medal, I aim to slay all of my opponents.
Because that what we fencers do.
We slay them with our swo--
Ok enough said. 

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Here's a song by Muse, "Survival" was used as the London 2012 Olympic's soundtrack. May this lift up your spirit, whoever you are. 

 Dadah

-Nibras Sakkir