irvin66
04-27-2013, 05:40 PM
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 (http://sport.aftenposten.no/sport/article277491.ece).
"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
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 (http://sport.aftenposten.no/sport/article277491.ece).
"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