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in the class if you go to the club prac
tice," she says. "Then they go and
decide they really enjoy the compe
tition."
Fencing is divided into foil, epee
and saber divisions. Foil and epee
are classified as finesse sports be
cause they rely less on force but
more on dexterity. Sabers, which
rely less on the deft twist of the wrist,
are almost a full-contact sport.
"It's one of the manlier of the
weapons," she says. "You can use
the side of the blade, and a couple of
whacks across the side of the head
can really rattle you around for a
while."
Volkovich says the first thing the
club teaches is safety, which re
duces the danger from saber-swing
ing swashbucklers.
"People join and want to be Zor-
ro," she says. "You put a saber in
their hand and you've satisfied their
urge."
Volkovich says A&M's major com
petition in the fencing field comes
from Southwest Texas State Univer
sity, who floods the field with a
quantity of fencers at every tourna
ment. Even so, she says, A&M
fencers capture a few places at each
meet. Since fencing tournaments
are generally divided by sort of
sword, not age groups, she says the
competition is very varied.
"You have a wide range of peo
ple," she says. "You could fence a
six-year-old and a 40-year-old in the
same day."
Volkovich says the fencing club
furnishes all masks, protective gear
and weapons to club members. It
can be an expensive sport, she says,
so students should take advantage
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learn the sport.
FIELD HOCKEY — Muhammad Shaw,
president of the field hockey club,
has seen the organization go
through several changes since he
joined the club in 1983. When he
joined, Shaw says he was the only
male on A&M's traditionally female
team. He says he was able to recruit
enough members to make up com
plete men's and women's teams. Be
cause some members graduated,
the club is back to one co-ed team,
with ten men and four women par
ticipating.
Shaw says the team competes
against local high school teams, as
well as club teams from Houston
and Dallas. It also travels regularly
to Tulane University to participate in
tournaments for trophies and rib
bons. Shaw says field hockey is not
a traditional American sport, so
most of the men on the team are for
eign students, and many are from
Pakistan.
"lust like football is to Americans,
field hockey is to Pakistanis," he
says.
GYMNASTICS — The Gymnastics Club
was organized in 1928, making it
one of A&M's oldest club teams. To
day it has 20-25 active members and
a team of 10 women and 15 men.
Monique Cox, spokeswoman for the
group, says they would like to pro
mote the growth of gymnastics with
beginners as well as experts. Gym
nastics is a sport anyone can do, she
says, and experience definitely isn't
required.
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was about 15 members strong,
which is a good amount.
"Because it costs over $100 per
player to play, it just wasn't feasible
at this point in time," Stronach says.
It's also rough on the team members
because their home rink is in Hous
ton. Often, they practice from 11
p.m. to midnight and then drive
back to College Station.
Some members of the club will
play this semester, but not formally
representing A&M.
JUDO — ludo is the Japanese style of
wrestling, and Biobby Perez, the
club president, will tell you it's differ
ent from other martial arts. But it's
not hard to learn, he says.
"The matches last five minutes,
but it seems like forever," Perez
says.
To build up endurance, many of
the 20 club members run and lift
weights. Let's hope all their hard
work pays off when the judo club
competes in the Dallas Team Cham
pionships, Nov. 30.
LACROSSE — "Basically, lacrosse is a
sport of sticks catching a solid rub
ber ball the size of a tennis ball,
played on a field the size of a foot
ball field with two six-foot goals," Jon
Turton, club president explains. It's
a full contact sport that involves
speed, endurance, quickness, and
hand-eye coordination, Turton says.
The lacrosse team is responsible
for yet another Aggie tradition. The
Fifth Annual Texas A&M Fall La
crosse Classic. On Nov. 9 and 10,
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