One of our less experienced foilist was up and loosing pretty badly. Every single touch his opponent made on him was a simple beat attack to his right shoulder. At 0 to 4, one of the other foilist on our team popped up and noted that to him.

Our foilist just waited for the beat and then popped back for a distance parry before countering. His opponent remised and our foilist got the point. His opponent tried to argue with the ref but to no avail. The same thing happened for the next two points. On the fourth point for our fencer, the opponent got a red card for stomping in frustration after the touch.

After the our noob foilist got the last touch, his opponent yanked off his mask and immediately made his way to the ref. The guy’s teammates and coach jumped up and tried to stop him but by the time they got to him, the ref was already pulling the black card from her pocket.

The other team’s coach made his fencer salute and shake hands with our foilist and then came over to apologize to me and the foil team.” BLACK CARD!!!!

Tale number 3- From “Robdmarks” of the Reddit community- “I witnessed this at a NAC three years ago. This fencer is losing, no… getting wooped. It’s like 8-0 after the first period. He’s fighting his hardest to get back and FINALLY gets a touch. Proceeds down the edge of the strip and get a counterattack but he steps off the strip right before the touch arrives, the ref even calls halt. The fencer thinks the touch is scored and turns screaming his face off. As the fencer realizes that his touch was disallowed, he and his coach become furious. They both start yelling at the ref, while the ref looks calmly on amongst all of this. When the coach realizes he can’t win, he kicks over the entire row of strip dividers. The ref awards the fencer a red, and then proceeds to give a black to the coach, who angrily asks why he was given a back. As he refuses to accept that he was given a black, he has to be removed by security.” BLACK CARD!!!

Tale number 4- From “HitlerKonyMao3Way” of the Reddit community- “1989 World Championships: The guy who won flipped the bird to the loser and judges. Got a BLACK CARD!!!”

Tale number 5- From “TheGreatKimbini” of the Reddit community- “I got black carded once.