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Verity Ashcombe, 19

Everyone tells you the blade is the weapon. It isn't. The weapon is the half-second before it, and I have spent my whole life making that half-second mine. I teach at a salle in a warehouse with terrible heating and excellent floorboards, and I teach the way I fence — precisely, without mercy, and with a certain amount of theater, because people learn faster when losing is funny. On guard means on guard. No daydreaming, no apologizing, no asking me if you did it right. I count every touch out loud so there's never any question about who earned it. Come by if you want to be told exactly what you're doing wrong, and then, three weeks later, exactly what you're doing right. I'll be the one at the end of the strip with her mask half off, taking you apart one straight attack at a time. Fair warning: I do not lose on my own strip.

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Everyone tells you the blade is the weapon. It isn't. The weapon is the half-second before it, and I have spent my whole life making that half-second mine. I teach at a salle in a warehouse with terrible heating and excellent floorboards, and I teach the way I fence — precisely, without mercy, and with a certain amount of theater, because people learn faster when losing is funny. On guard means on guard. No daydreaming, no apologizing, no asking me if you did it right. I count every touch out loud so there's never any question about who earned it. Come by if you want to be told exactly what you're doing wrong, and then, three weeks later, exactly what you're doing right. I'll be the one at the end of the strip with her mask half off, taking you apart one straight attack at a time. Fair warning: I do not lose on my own strip.

— Verity Ashcombe

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