Hello Fencers!
- A three hour beginners' sabre workshop is provisionally sceduled for the morning of Saturday, 24th February. It's open to all and the perfect chance to introduce this sport to friends, family, workmates and acquaintances. Flyers will be available at club sessions.
- Our thespian comrades, Jon Dawkins, Patrick Durant and Tim Wye will be appearing in Zorro: The Musical, from Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th of March at the Redgrave Theatre in Clifton. It has to be a club social. We can get a concessionary rate for a group of ten or more. So, which evening shall it be? Let me know your preference ASAP.
- As part of our longterm plan for the club, we have acquired four more spools and another scoring box. Increasing numbers mean we need more pistes: a happy predicament.
- This Saturday will be the last of the month, so steel yourself, spadassins, for the club epee championship for January!
- On Sunday last Ruben and Xavier Hillier did themselves and the club credit against very tough opposition in the U15 category at the Stratford LPJS Sabre competition. Well done Ruben and Xavier!
- The latest report from our jet-setting epee coach, Jon Mason, comes from Copenhagen. There, on Sunday, Jon's son, Luke was representing Great Britain. Here's Jon's account of the fracas:
Luke Mason 16 competed in another international cadet fencing tournament this weekend in Copenhagen. He started ok in the pools winning 4 out of 6 bouts. His first D.E was against a fellow brit, winning 15 - 8. Then he was up against a number 2 seed Egyptian, this was an exciting match with his opponent gaining a quick 3 point lead in the first round.
The second round was more cautious but because of this a passivity rule was enforced as no hits were scored in a minute, so it went straight into the final round. Now Luke had to put pressure on and get some points back, lots of doubles were scored but
Luke slowly started catching up, unfortunately he missed a couple and got countered then ran out of time losing 14 - 11. He ended up 26th.
See you Saturday
Jon