Hello Fencers!
It's back to business as usual as we return to our Oasis Academy Brightstowe home. For those who have forgotten or never knew where we were, look here: https://www.bwefencing.co.uk/find-us/
As a fitting start, we have our McNeill Cup Team Sabre competition for August. It's the quintessential White Eagle event and goes back to our beginnings. It's fun; it's mayhem.
The month's deferred Epee Championship will be until Saturday (01/09/18). There's still plenty of prodding to be done though, as spadassins wend back from their Summer resorts
There is comforting continuity and there is exciting change: A beginner's sabre course starts on Wednesday, September 5th (7:30pm to 9pm). It's a chance to get those basics really nailed down. I'll be taking the course, so expect the usual digressions, reprised anecdotes and indecipherable diagrams on the whiteboard: classic coaching. Details and enrolment form are here: https://www.bwefencing.co.uk/courses-and-workshops/
On 12th December (6pm to 7:30) we begin the Bristol Fencing Academy: a training session for juniors who would like to develop their There will be training games, individual progress logs and focussed tuition - as well as fencing. Details and enrolment are here: https://www.bwefencing.co.uk/courses-and-workshops/
Coach, Martin Dale will be leading foil he club at our Wednesday sessions, giving that weapon the support its growing popularity deserves.
Our happy sojourn at Ashton Park is captured in these photographs from Saturday's session: from the Durant powerbeat-fleche to some excellent sabre skills - yes, it's Prime! (photography: Anna Grodent).