Pre-season excitement!

Well, folks, this weekend marks the beginning of the 2010-2011 fencing season for me. I am competing at Leon Auriol in Seattle, WA. This season I will be focusing primarily on foil, and therefore, I will be fencing in the senior women's foil event on saturday. Over the past two months, I've been struggling to understand this crazy sport people call fencing. And during my spare time, I've rewritten the lyrics to a particular holiday song- Spirit of the Season. Enjoy!

It's the spirit of the season

You can feel it anywhere

You can see it, it'll glisten

Shiny, RU, oh it's true, a new bell (guard)

Whatever it is you need to use it

It's the spirit of the season

You can see it everywhere

People run as their strip is called

Their bout will begin soon

Dreams are dancing in their coach's eyes

Fencers yelling, coaches yelling too

It's the spirit of the season

Beeping buzzers fill the air

Clear a pathway for them quickly

It's their lair, there's no care

It stays there

Sabre fencers there's no need to share it

It's the spirit of the season

It's the spirit of the season

Weapons breaking as you rush on by

Lights will fail to glow

Prayers begin for that hopeful sound

Of fencers fencing, boxes beeping too

It's the spirit of the season

Beeping buzzers fill the air

Clear a pathway for them quickly

It's their lair, there's no care

It stays there

Sabre fencers there's no need to share it

It's the spirit of the season

You can hear it anywhere

It's the spirit of the season

You can feel it here and there