Bruce Dickinson Fences in Norway!

[irvin66]

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."

[Dino Velvet]

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

[wearboots4me]

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