Hello Fencers!
- On Saturday 28th April we will be running a sabre workshop for those interested in taking up or refining their knowlege of the weapon details are on our club website here: https://www.bwefencing.co.uk/courses/
- Coach Martin Dale has very kindly agreed to take a class in armourer's skills, as requested by several of our fencers. If you are interested, please let me know and I'll arrange a date and a venue.
- The voluntary group footwork session on Wednesdays has proved popular and will continue. It's a great way to warm-up in the modern style.
- Last Saturday (14th April), our club and our Cabot Learning Federation affiliate put on a junior sabre event. It was a great success and I was greatly impressed by the standard of fencing and sportsmanship displayed. Everyone seemed to have fun and I had a fine time myself. I've pasted the report of CLF coach, Nigel Cooley below my signature.
See you soon,
John
Saturday April 14th saw the annual CLF Fencing Academy & White Eagle Fencing Club Sabre Championship. A total of 32 fencers came from BMA, JCA, Bristol White Eagle, Bristol White Eagle Inner-City Fencing Academy and associated primary schools. Hosted at BMA, results were as follows:
U16 Boys
Cyrus Bond (Gold) and Maciej Oledzki (Silver) BMA
U16 Girls
Aishat Ayinde (Gold) BMA
U14 Boys
Rueben Hillier (Gold) and Xaxier Hillier(Silver) WE
Joe Hayes-Lynch WE & Jamie Honeywill BMA (Bronze)
U14 Girls
Khanh Pham (Gold), Esme Tromans (Silver) and Hannah Bufton (Bronze) BMA
U12 Boys
Luke Burfoot (Gold) WE
U12 Girls
Mia Nutbeam (Gold), Lucia Furr (Silver) WE
U10 Boys
Raul Blasco Mitcell (Gold) Arlo Hugh Jones (Silver), Xavier Stockhausen & Michael Silence Davis (Bronze)
U8's
Alonzo Earl (Gold) BWEFC-IFA Savana Earl (Silver)BWEFC-IFA , Ernest Boggon - Colston's - & Dexter Grodent (Bronze) WE
All the students were a great credit to their Academies and clubs.
Many thanks to John Rohde, Head Coach of White Eagle Fencing Club. His support, loan of essential equipment and expertise.
Special thanks to the referees John Dawkins, Martin Dale, Patrick Durant, Robert Greenwood and John Rohde.
Special mentions to Stephen Findlay, Anna Grodent, Rosemary Greenwood and Rachel White for helping out in various ways. It was greatly appreciated!!!
Finally, many thanks to Glenis Hills, my partner, who has supported this Saturday festival again.
Kind Regards
Nigel Cooley
CLF Fencing Academy