No fencing practice on Family Day

Hello fencers!

The statutory holiday (family day!) means there is no fencing tomorrow, Monday, February 18.

Enjoy your families. If you can, fence with them! 🙂

In other club news

UBC Intercollegiate

Isaac and Orion are competing today in UBC’s Intercollegiate tournament. Isaac is fencing foil and sabre. Orion, in a bizarre twist, is fencing sabre (!!). Tiger on*, guys!

Register register register!

Are you asking yourself Should you I sign up for a fencing tournament? YES! The answer is, YES. You should!

Beginners Invitational

Beginners! Mark your calendars for March 6 and 13 for our Beginners Invitational, to be held within our regular Wednesday practice. Free and all ages welcome.

If you are in a current beginner class, or have taken your first fencing class in the last 12 months, please see further info / register with the form here: https://capcityfencers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2019-03-beginners-invitational-registration-form.pdf

Escrime Sundae

March 23 is our first club tournament of the year. Fencing and ice cream – what more could you want?!

There are events for youth, adults, and beginners, so check it out!

UVIC’s Nan Sang Ho Legacy Open

March 2 has senior events in all weapons, and beginners foil. Registration now open:

https://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=43012

Fencing video & podcast

And some more video for a night in Monday. I think we should do some team events, so here is the women’s team foil finals from the 2018 world championships in Wuxi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8VnmvN14s&list=PLdNA_ybrJjfmNzKg2iWGPWhCGJZiuA9Xm&index=11

Also, you can check out the fencing podcast.

http://www.thefencingpodcast.com/podcast/

The website has their podcasts, plus links to videos of the bouts they are discussing in the podcast (and in some of the videos they also provide commentary for the event broadcast).

St. Patrick’s day

Speaking of teams, I propose a night of flepee team fencing to celebrate St. Patrick’s day on March 20. What is flepee you ask? It is teams made up of foilists (fleure) and epeeists competing against each other. We will make up teams at the start of the night, then each team will fence the others to determine a winner by some probably not quite official method. Prizes could include Lucky Charms and bananas and green things. As usual, I am making it up as I go, but you can be certain there will be leprechauns.