Hello Fencers!
This week sees the launch of our Bristol Fencing Academy for junior fencers. It runs immediately before our regular Wednesday sessions, from 6:15 to 7:30. Full details are given here: https://www.bwefencing.co.uk/bristolfencingacademy/ .
We'll be featuring the irrepressible Aldo Montano in the Academy's video presentation but so as not to pre-empt that showing, here's a match featuring the great Italian sabreur against another great champion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_VrsqROME.
Staying with sabre, the McNeill Cup is up for grabs again tomorrow (Wednesday, 26th Sept.), as our sabreurs and sabreuses contest for the team sabre trophy.
Saturday (29th Sept.) will bring our Epee Championship around again. The weapon goes from strength to strength in the club and I'm sure it will be as hotly contested as ever.
It's been resolved to hold a monthly foil competition, to match our sabre and epee championships. As presently conceived, it would be a team competition on the lines of the McNeill Cup. It remains is to decide whether to hold it on Wednesday or Saturday. Any and all thoughts on the subject are welcome.
It's further been suggested - by Adrian Day, who has a vested interest in the matter - that we should have a Master-Of-Arms competition for those Jacks and Jills among us who fancy a foray at three weapons. Send me your thoughts on format and setting please.
Thanks to Nandini Banerjee, here is a link that illustrates - at least to the francophone among us - some of the benefit from fencing that weighs more than simply winning or losing or mere sport: https://www.facebook.com/ffescrime/videos/2009006895827679/
We aim to run epee and foil workshops and courses in the near future. Please let me know if you would be interested.
All in all, exciting times.
See you soon,
John