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This undated French postcard features a “salle de jeux et d’escrime“… gym and fencing salle of the Pensionnat de l’Ecole Moyenne de l’Etat in Visé. In the foreground, a pair of boys practices the kicks of la boxe française or savate. Another pair, in the background, is engaging in the boxing aspects of that game.
To the left, a pair of boys poses with fencing sabers, while behind them, two older boys are taking a picture-perfect en guarde position with foils. Other boys, seated, are waiting for their turn holding fencing foils.
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January 8, 2010 at 7:04 am
This is remarkable and such a special and dreamy sepia tone. Again it seems more like a dream sequence.
January 13, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Savate kicks ass, its no Muay Thai, but it kicks ass
January 13, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Another great old fencing photo. Puulaahi, you’ve got good taste; do you happen to actually fence?
January 13, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Training in Ninjutsu at the moment, but I have always wanted to learn to fence.
January 13, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Can you imagine this happening now?
January 13, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Fencing is a sport. Today, if you see people prancing around with their fucking arms in the air like in this photo (which at that time was normal), they are 1) Theatrical fencers and/or 2) Idiots.
January 13, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Fencing is also a martial art used to settle disputes of honor or was.
January 13, 2010 at 10:29 pm
3) Newbies, 4) Someone who’s being warned for covering target area(or just nearly got their off hand whacked/stabbed).
January 15, 2010 at 7:44 am
God damn I want to do fencing.
…but I know I’d only be disappointed about it not being what we see in those olden photographs.