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Late November Fencing News
All the fencing news fit for the piste! |
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| LUNGE! (Anna on the left, scoring a touch in the poules) |
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| In the Late November Fencing News you will find:
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| ‘Thanks to everyone who has already registered. Haven;t registered yet? Please do so ASAP as I need to know numbers for pizza and the tournament plan!
Who should register to COMPETE?
Fencers who are in the CCFC beginner class now!
Fencers who completed their beginner fencing class in 2024, and have not yet participated in a tournament.
Fencers from other sister club beginner classes who have not yet competed in a tournament.
Unsanctioned: No CFF license required.
Who should VOLUNTEER?
CCFC club members who want to learn to run a tournament. Youth are especially encouraged to take a leadership role running this event. Beginners not feeling ready to compete can also volunteer.
Parents! Friends from other clubs!
Who should come watch?
Friends and family, club members, and beginners not quite ready to compete.
Weapon:
FOIL
Date, time, location:
Saturday November 30
Royal Oak Middle School
FENCERS: Be at the gym by 9:45 AM and plan to stay as late as 3 pm
VOLUNTEERS: Be at the gym by 9 am for set up and plan to stay after 3 pm for clean up. (Yes, you can come for part of the day, but please let us know when you register)
Tournaments can be unpredictable in length.
If we finish the event early enough there will be extra fencing for every fencer! (So bring your gear, volunteers)
Pizza Lunch included — please register early to make this work!!
Cost:
FREE! |
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- Beginners Invitational November 30
- No fencing Wednesday, December 4
- CCFC AGM Wednesday December 11 (at start of practice) More info below.
- Annual Gift Stealing Night: Wednesday December 18 (Please note date for Gift Stealing Night in last email was incorrect. This is the last night of fencing for 2024. A club favourite and not to be missed!! Details below)
- TFF Cadet/Junior Tournament Dec 8 (details below)
- Escrime Sundae April 5
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| Who should go?
Youth foil, epee and sabre fencers with CFF licenses.
Event Age Definitions:
Cadet: born 2008-2011
Junior: born 2005-2011
Date, time, location:
Sunday, December 8
12460 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 2J5
Cost: $42.50 plus admin fee per event upon registration and travel.
The club aims to reduce overall cost with our
** CARPOOL PLAN **
This will be a one-day road trip to Vancouver taking the earliest ferry out and likely a late ferry home. We are hoping there is enough interest for a CCFC Youth Carpool!!
The club supports carpooling to one or two events per year. We aim to send coaches where possible to support the youth fencers through the event. We aim to keep travel to tournaments as low-cost as possible!
CCFC carpool funding policies
- day trips outside Greater Victoria
- there is more than one youth CCFC member attending
- we have enough notice to advertise and include as many youth as possible
- we keep the number of cars to the minimum
- we have enough coaches and volunteer adults available to travel/drive
- we must have two adults present and follow safe sport protocol.
What expenses do we cover:
- Ferry fare for car, driver, and coach
- Ferry reservation fee
- gas money
Youth fencers pay the ferry walk on fee and the competition fee, and for any food they buy en route.
Want to join a carpool on December 8? Willing to drive and be a volunteer adult?
Sign up for carpool! |
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| If you are ready to sign up for the tournament you can do so here: |
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| Registration is open for our annual club tournament!
Escrime Sundae 2025 is set for Saturday April 5, 2025 at Royal Oak Gym
Details are still to come but we already know:
Events include Senior Mixed Foil, Epee and Sabre, PLUS Novice Foil!
The events are unsanctioned
There is Ice Cream. We have so much ice cream!
The ice cream is sanctioned … The tournament is not. |
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| Well done to all CCFC fencers on an excellent event—some of my best action shots below. Especially big congrats to Dafyyd Foster (Gold, Foil) and Caleb McIntosh (Silver in BOTH Foil and Epee). |
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| CCFC fencers. Top photo, on the right in red socks, Vas Patapovich | Directly above, on the right, Olive Johnson scoring a point with a well executed lunge. | Below left, fencer on the right in red socks is Grace Chen, who is celebrating one of many excellent touches in that bout | below right, fencer on the left is Dafyyd Foster, scoring with a very nice flick to the back | below that is Eden Armstrong (on the right in blue) with another excellent lunge | the bottom two feature Anna Smith (l) and Chris Hodgeson (right in red shoes) scoring with nicely executed parry ripostes. |
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| Sorry to everyone I missed on film —- I saw some excellent fencing from Rod Mack, Chris Eagle, Alysha Bell, and Caleb McIntosh but didn’t get photos before my battery died, also missed the medal podium. 😦 |
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Epee Medalists:
GOLD: Luka Lukic Debakker (UBC Fencing Club)
SILVER: Caleb McIntosh (UVIC Fencing Club and CCFC)
BRONZE: Andrew Fabbro (UBC Fencing Club/Dynamo) and Andrew Kwon (Kinght Fencing Academy/UBC).
Foil Medalists:
GOLD: Dafydd Foser (CCFC)
SILVER: Caleb McIntosh (UVIC Fencing Club/CCFC)
BRONZE: Yucheng Liu (Unattached) and Aaron Lalonde (Philippines Fencing Assocaiton/OSM Fencing)
Full tournament results, including poules and rankings, can be viewed here.
Thanks to UVIC for organizing and all the amazing volunteers who made this even happen! |
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| When: Wednesday, December 11
at start of fencing practice for about 30 minutes
Who: Every fencer, including youth, is a club member. Every member is eligible to participate and vote in the AGM and board election.
The AGM agenda includes:
- Approve Agenda
- Review & approve 2023 AGM minutes
- President’s report/ club update
- Review of the 2024 Financial statements, and the year-to-date finances
- Approve the club fee schedule (No changes proposed)
- Elections:
- Election of the 2025 board of directors. Directors, except youth directors, must be 18 years or older.
- Election of a youth advisory council by and from members who are under 19 years of age.
- The youth advisory may elect a youth director from among their membership, provided the youth director is no less than 16 years of age.
- Any other business submitted by the membership in time for
- Adjourn to fencing!
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What could be more festive than a night of
theft, lies and sword fights?
Every year our last night of fencing is a festive gift stealing party.
Every fencer brings one gift and we fence all night while stealing gifts from each other.
All our fencers, including beginners and long lost folks back for holidays, are encouraged to attend.
This year, our last night is DECEMBER 18. So ignore #wrongdate in my last fencing news.
Behold the steps to gift thieving glory
STEP 1: Acquire TOP SECRET gift
We each bring a SECRET wrapped gift valued less than $10. As always we encourage homemade (baking, sewing, poetry … no nuts please) or lovely (!!!!) found items from home (grandma will never miss that soap!!). If you spot me by the discount bins at Canadian Tire, please avert your eyes!
STEP 2: Wrap the gift so it is mysterious and enticing
Wrap the gift so it is a mysterious and enticing item. Bring the gift to fencing. DO NOT AT ANY TIME REVEAL THE CONTENTS OF THE GIFT.
(Note: Lying is encouraged so feel free to pretend to share the secret gift contents with unsuspecting frenemies. Additional Note: Isaac is lying about the spatula.)
STEP 3: Fence to win the gift you want
Start with your gift in hand. At the start of each bout, place the gift next to the score box. At the end of the bout, the winner selects which gift they leave the piste with, and the loser takes the other. Thus the evening proceeds, gifts swap hands at each bout, until the tolling of the bell (around 9:15/9:20pm) at which point we unwrap gifts one by one.
Step 4: Document
We take some photos.
This event is best enjoyed if you can stay to the very end at 10 pm.
Obligatory AI content: |
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| There is nothing not perfect
about gift stealing cats
fencing with surrealist spatulas
as a silvery flying turnip
referees from above.
There might be something a little bit wrong, however, with using a cat’s head to top off a wrapped gift, even if the cat appears entirely calm and undaunted by their situation. |
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