Bruce Dickinson Fences in Norway!

Bruce Dickinson faced off with the much taller Olympic winner Bartosz Piasecki at Oslo prior to the start of the Norwegian fencing championship.

Dickinson did pretty well during the warm-up sessions at Bygdøhus in Oslo, but was thoroughly defeated as soon as the match kicked off.


"I had two points in a row," Dickinson told the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.


"He's kick-ass," Piasecki said about Bruce. "He is short but incredibly fast, that's his weapon. He looked like Rocky when he arrived in a brown robe with his fencing kit in a shoulder bag."


Once the match got serious, Piasecki took 5 points on Dickinson, who was left with 0 points till the final round.


"For me, fencing is training," Dickinson told Aftenposten. "I gave up competing in tournaments when I was 23, at that point I was ranked No. 7 in Britain."
"I fence because I enjoy it, and the by-product is that I end up getting in reasonably good shape. Actually, fencing is very similar to the way I run around on stage. Or maybe I run around on stage like that because I fence. Either way, it works for me."


"I'm an aggressive defensive fencer," Bruce previously said about his style of fencing. "Since I'm rather short I have to try and get the opponent to make mistakes all the time. I am irritating, very intense and energetic."

http://youtu.be/4oCEdv707v4

That's great. I bet Bruce is a better pilot. Thanks irvin.

Singing, flying planes and fencing, too? That guy does everything, lol.