Fencing club, Mahidol university, Thailand in 1994 #3

I am not so sure if anybody who read my blog would consider going to the sport club on your weekend while you are in the college is a fun thing to do. But for me, HELL YEAH! I loved doing that even I was not good about fencing and got soooooooooo tired every single week. Imagine I loved wearing this cool practice suit in the steaming hot gym and you would not believe that.

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I know not everybody would feel comfortable wearing this suit and must imagine how hot you would be in that outfit. But we had fun and practiced real hard during that time with the hope we would win in the competition. As I mentioned earlier that there are quite a few of the competitions for the college kids like us all year long until the biggest tournament of a year, right? For sure, we practiced that hard for the big day and hope we could get something from there.

Picture was taken around 1994 and belongs to Ms. Joanna Ainscough

The picture above shows my club mate who practiced Seber and only the guy in the left of the picture that were not the same age as me. They all were medicine doctor and now as far as I know, the one in the middle is a medical director or a president ( not sure which word fits better) of the hospital somewhere in Thailand. I am so proud of him though.

Picture was taken around 1994 and belongs to Ms. Joanna Ainscough

In this picture is a friend of mine who practice Epee with my senior club mate who was in the last year of the medical school by that time. Once you are in the last year of medical school you pretty practice and learn as a doctor. They needed to be on the floor, they needed to be in the operation room, they needed to be on call. Plus, they also have to take a lot of tests and submit a lot of reports. But for their club mates especially in the competition days like that. At least a couple of them must came to help us getting dress or driving around to find food to feed us. Can you imagine how busy those guys would be? He even came to help and cheer us in the medical student uniform. How nice!!!

Picture was taken around 1994 and belongs to Ms. Joanna Ainscough

This is another club mate during that time and he was the senior friend who practiced Epee. In the picture above, he was about ready for the competition. He was a good fencer for me and I think he still practicing as the great doctor somewhere in Thailand.

Picture was taken around 1994 and belongs to Ms. Joanna Ainscough

Fencing is always fast and intense. Everything happens in only a second. You need to be very strong and fast. On top of that you also have to think fast and learn how to read your competitor's mind in order to win. Too bad I did not have picture of myself in the fencing suit and on the competition matt though. I can't imagine how many pictures I would have if I was in the club today. I may not have enough data space in my computer to keep them all.