Word: tatrallyays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style is a function of my bad legs. I'm a terrible fencer stylistically. The only thing that allows me to do well is my quick reflexes," Tatrallyay said...
...guide accompanied the family to the border clearing, a muddy field. He told them that the bridge located across the clearing lay in Austrian territory. "We just walked across toward the bridge," Tatrallyay recalled. "My mother lost a shoe containing old gold coins...
...Tatrallyay came to Harvard from a school near his home in Toronto. As a freshman he tried soccer, his favorite sport, but he soon became discouraged and decided to concentrate on fencing, where he had a better chance of playing regularly...
Fencing is Hungary's national sport. Tatrallyay began to fence as a child and continued during high school in Canada. He has developed an individualistic style employing courageous charge lunges on offense. On defense, Tatrallyay frequently falls to the ground to avoid the attack of the opposition fencer...
Fencing is easier in the United States than in Europe, Tatrallyay said. "You have to do 100 lunges for practice in Europe, and every time you don't do a lunge right, the master slashes you across the back of your legs with a sabre," he said...