Fencing is a groovy sport where there are two opponents who are each trained in the same style of fencing (foil, epee, or sabre). As you can see 
by the picture to the right, each fencer wears protective gear which includes breast frisbees for women. This sport is very difficult and very demanding. You have to develop your leg muscles, your arm muscles, your speed, and your flexibility.
Styles
Foil – This is what most people learn first. The entire torso is the potential target. The foil blade itself has no bladed side to it, but only a pointy end, thus the opponents must land their strikes only with the tip of their foil.
Epee – I’ve heard that this is what a lot of people learn secondly, but I’ve also heard the opposite. This is a lot like foil, but the hand-guard has a bigger bell and the entire body is the potential target. I’ve seen epee matches that last an upwards of 20 minutes and as little as 45 seconds.
Sabre – This is the hack-and-slash method that people romanticize about in literature. The sabre has a bladed edge, from the waist up is potential target area, and its very fast. The speed and larger attack area on the blade is the reason why people tend to learn, at least, foil first.
Duels
Since we are crafting a town based around pirates and it would be stupid to think that no one would ever walk around without a sword, I’m thinking that there should be a highly moderated, legalized version of dueling in the town. It would have to be overseen by a Duel Master, a waiver would be signed by both parties, and it would be to first blood drawn from a legal tag (not by a scratch). The point is not to kill the person, it’s to best the person. Blades only, no guns.
Dueling is prohibited in some states. The following states have no laws against dueling though.
* Alaska – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Arizona – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[30]
* California – No statutory duelling prohibition – California Penal Code Sections 225 through 232, repealed in 1994
* Connecticut – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[31]
* Delaware – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Georgia – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[32]
* Hawaii – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[33]
* Illinois – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Indiana – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Iowa – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[34]
* Kansas – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[35]
* Louisiana – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Maine – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Maryland – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Minnesota – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Missouri – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[36]
* Montana – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Nebraska – No statutory duelling prohibition
* New Hampshire – No statutory duelling prohibition
* New Jersey – No statutory duelling prohibition
* North Carolina – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Ohio – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[38]
* Pennsylvania – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[40]
* South Dakota – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Vermont – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Virginia – No specific statutory duelling prohibition, To stop duelling, Virginia’s Anti-Dueling Act, passed in 1810, created civil and criminal penalties for the most usual causes of duelling. It is still on the books. Virginia Code §8.01-45 creates a Civil Action for insulting words. Virginia Code §18.2-416 makes it a crime to use abusive language to another under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Virginia Code §18.2-417 makes certain slander and libel a crime. see 1 VA. CODE REV. § 8 (1819), quoted in Chaffin v. Lynch, 1 S.E. 803, 806 (Va. 1887).
* Washington – No statutory duelling prohibition for civilians; prohibited for personnel of the state national guard[41]
* Wisconsin – No statutory duelling prohibition
* Wyoming – No statutory duelling prohibition
Duels. Yes? No? Be sure to tell us WHY you think what you do.
I’ve been looking at various islands for sale online. I think it would take, at the minimum, 50 acres of island space to create the pirate-themed town. It cost a few million – all the way up to over a hundred million – to buy an island. I think that if we decided on buying and island, any investors/founders would have to group together to buy the island and they would receive a land parcel of the island equal to the percentage that they put into the island purchase. If that didn’t make sense: If the island costs 4 million dollars and you decide to put in 1.5 million, then you just covered 37.5% of the cost. You would then receive 37.5% of the land on the island. That’s fair, right? Land owners could then sell off bits and pieces of their land to people/companies moving there, develop the land themselves, etc etc.
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