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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 129438" data-attributes="member: 1213">I fenced varsity foil in high school for two years.  I havent yet had time at college.  I recommend you try european first.Some caveats about the other styles:  Most Martial Arts styles, Kendo being a notable exception, dont have competition, and most are integrated with unarmed martial arts.  These styles are thing to know, but are not really used unless someone tries to mug you and you both are carrying katanas  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  It seems that they are good suppliaments to wider martial arts ability.  Its probably best to try other primarily weaponess styles such as karate, jujitsu, tae kwon do, etc and THEN learn extra sword styles to suppliament them.With SCA, note that it may increase your geek rating, if that kind of thing matters to you.  Fencing and martial arts are considered "cool" by the masses (not that the masses are correct very often), but SCA is a level beyond DND, equal or slightly geekier than LARPing.  Depending on how you look at that, that could be good OR bad.I like european fencing becuase it is the most competition-oriented and the most sport-like.  It is reletively self-contained, in that it doesnt require and massively incorporate other skills, like japanese, etc styles do, nor does, as in the case of SCA, roleplaying and historical accuracy get in the way of good sporting fun.  I like to roleplay, and I like to play sports, but swinging a padded mace at someone pretending that I'm a knight is not my cup of tea.  YMMV on that point, too.</blockquote>

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