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| Please note the following schedule notes (some items are NEW!!!):
APRIL
- April 16: No fencing Wednesday April 16 (school use)
- April 16: Gear Repair Workshop April 16 (registrants will get an email shortly)
- April 21: No fencing Monday April 21 (Easter Monday)
- NEW! April 28: No fencing Monday, April 28 (Federal Election using gym)
- Beginners Class begins Wednesday April 23 … and we just learned we will have only the far half of the gym that night due to basketball net repairs. We have schemes, though, so come to practice and welcome the newbies!
- April 27 – TFA Cadet and Junior tournament ROAD TRIP! (more below)
MAY
- May 1 – 4 : Foil World Cup Richmond, BC ROAD TRIP! (more below)
- May 16: No fencing Monday, May 16 (Stat)
- May 18: Nards of May (Observed). In which we fence for wine gums!
- May 28: No fencing Wednedsay May 28 (School use of the gym)
JUNE
- June 23: No fencing Monday June 23 (school gym use)…
- June 25: Last night of Spring fencing (Wednesday)
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| Sabre final (l-3: Arnica Farabakhsh and Evan Bentley-Inouye). Photo by Suhyon from UVIC |
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| Gear repair clinic registrants, please check your inbox I’ve just sent you the details for Wednesday.
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TFA Cadet and Junior tournament
Road trip!
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| Who has tournament fever after Escrime Sundae?
Several cadet and junior fencers have expressed interest in attending the TFA Cadet/Junior tournament on April 27 in Pitt Meadows.
We are organizing a carpool road trip. This is a day trip, with an early start and late return home.
Events:
There are Cadet and Junior events in Sabre, Epee, and Foil.
Age Definitions:
Cadet: born 2008-2011
Junior: born 2005-2011
Registration:
Registration is open on AskFred, deadline to register is April 25.
Coaching
We will have CCFC Coaching at the event if there is a group attending.
CFF Licenses:
All participating fencers will be required to have their CFF license (or foreign equivalent) for liability reasons. Licenses can be obtained through BCFA’s license page.
TRAVEL carpool
CCFC is organizing carpooling for this event. The club can support carpool volunteer drivers with costs of ferry. To sign up to join the carpool OR volunteer to drive, please click the sign up button below. We will take as few cars as possible to keep costs low. |
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Foil World Cup in Richmond ROAD TRIP!
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| The Foil World Cup is coming to Vancouver May 1 – 4.
This features team and individual men’s and women’s foil events… and a chance to see Canada’s first ever olympic fencing medalist Eleanor Harvey compete!
https://www.bcfencingassociation.com/vancouverworldcup
A few of the club members have been discussing taking a road trip to watch either the individual table of 64 + (Saturday) or team events (Sunday).
Would you like to join a road trip to watch some top notch fencing… and maybe even a medal for Canada?!
Please note no club subsidy for this, so everyone would be splitting costs of taking the car on the ferry and gas etc. |
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| If I could just send out one more huge thank you to all the volunteers who made this event run so smoooothly.
Thanks to Andrea the amazing DT, who also designed the medals, Patty and Rob T for the sign in admin, Owen and Griffin on the ice cream bar (and the Taylors for planning and coordinating the ice cream bar), Caleb for taking on lead ref, James for fixing all we broke, and fixing it again when we broke it again, Anna who trained the DT crew, all the referees, Rob for fixing reels and weapons in advance of the event, all set up and take down crew, the volunteers who planned the whole thing, Orion, Owen, and Evan who schlepped the equipment from their clubs and back again, and Drew Hissen and Suhyon from UVIC and Eden Armstrong who took photos and shared them with me that you can now enjoy….
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
We received many kind words from fencers who appreciated how well run the event ran, and that is due to all of you!
Congratulations to all the athletes. And a special congratulation to our medalists: |
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| Escrime Sundae 2025 DT Andrea Hodgson presents Novice foil medals: Gold: Oliver Cross; Silver: Phillip Chang Zhelka; Bronze: Cole Mariette and Penn Sieb. [Photo: Eden Armstrong] |
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| Escrime Sundae 2025 Sabre Medalists: Gold: Arnica Farahbaksh; Silver: Evan Bentley-Inouye; Bronze: Samuel Comeault and Marie-Garance Besquet. (Photo Suhyon from UVIC) |
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| Escrime Sundae 2025 Epee medalists: Gold: Edward Chapin; Silver: Ali Ulker; Bronze: Luka Lukic deBakker and Alessandro Grunwald. Photo: Suhyon from UVIC. |
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| Escrime Sundae 2025 Foil Medalists: Gold: Daniel Grunwald; Silver: Harry McCullough; Bronze: Owen Weitzel and Zuniel Sali. Photo: Eden Armstrong. |
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| Our friends at UVIC fencing club are fencing May through August. Community members (16+) can join the club.
There are also summer camps Aged 13-16 (and a younger one if you have younger friends who might like to wield a sword!)
To register, visit the Vikes Active Living Page and search for fencing.
Please note students and other campus folks can join the club directly via the student club system. |
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Capital City Fencers' Club 