05-22-2022, 06:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2022, 08:47 AM by Drunk Monk.)
I met him when I attended that summer camp at SJSU that changed my life. That’s also when I met Stro, Charlie, Gay, Vinnie & Joy. It’s when Stro told me to come to SJSU and fence because if I went to De Anza as planned, it would eat away at my NCAA years. So I did and the rest is history.
I wonder now … if I never went to SJSU, would PPFY have followed?
Dan led gear workshops at that summer camp. That’s where I first learned to wire blades (something I never got that good at - I imagine the legacy is better than me at that now) and the wonders of dental floss (he used it to repairs masks). I crossed paths with him a few times at tournaments where he was head armorer. I remember one NCAA event, westerns maybe, where fellow epeeisf Tony had a faulty mask and Dan told him to repair it with floss, which Tony found absurd and told Chris, Ben & me that ‘we better have floss’. And I did, telling him ‘mask didn’t pass?’ He was dumbfounded.
I wonder now … if I never went to SJSU, would PPFY have followed?
Dan led gear workshops at that summer camp. That’s where I first learned to wire blades (something I never got that good at - I imagine the legacy is better than me at that now) and the wonders of dental floss (he used it to repairs masks). I crossed paths with him a few times at tournaments where he was head armorer. I remember one NCAA event, westerns maybe, where fellow epeeisf Tony had a faulty mask and Dan told him to repair it with floss, which Tony found absurd and told Chris, Ben & me that ‘we better have floss’. And I did, telling him ‘mask didn’t pass?’ He was dumbfounded.
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