CCFC Welcome to 2026 Fencing News

All the news that’s fit for a New Year piste!

Contents

• Fencing starts Jan 5 (& other exciting dates I promise to get right this time!)
• Beginner Classes – invite your friends (and stab them)
• Tournaments! Tournaments! Tournaments!
• Let’s go see Hamlet!

Fencing starts Jan 5 (& other exciting dates I promise to get right this time!)

Regular schedule returns:

Monday chills 8:30 – 10 pm

(no formal warm up, just fencing and more fencing!)

Wednesday thrills 7:30 – 10 pm

30 minute warm up to start, then fencing and more fencing

Saturday skills and drills 4:30 – 6pm

Focus on skill development through group coaching.

And while we are talking Saturdays, I want to encourage everyone to come out for skills and drills. If you were wondering whether this is for you, the answer is YES!

Skills and drills is a great option if you…

• are preparing for spring tournaments,
• need to defeat your club nemesis,
• need to meet your club nemesis,
• want to improve your endurance during tournaments or club bouts,
• feel you have plateaued and want to improve your technique,
• are new to the club and want to get to know everyone better, or
• all of the above

You don’t have to come every Saturday to participate… but if you do come every Saturday your fencing will improve!

PLEASE NOTE

Escrime Sundae is on SATURDAY MAY 23 (and there will be no Skills and Drills that day) More on that below.

NO FENCING on February 16, April 6, May 18, May 27, June 22 (due to stat holiday or school use) or other <dramatic sigh> #NotFencing activity

Beginner Classes! Tell all your friends (and frenemies)

*conditional on their attending the required training!

Beginner class starts January 14 and the $60 fee includes all the introductory lessons working up to full club membership for March.

We still have some unfilled spots, so please help us spread the word and grow our club!!

Registration link

Or send them this link: https://capcityfencers.ca/fencing-in-victoria/beginners-registration/

Tournaments! Tournaments! Tournaments!

We strongly encourage club members to register early for tournaments. With enough notice we can have a club coach attend to support you at the competition (and don’t forget to come out Saturdays as part of your tournament preparation–this is open to everyone who has completed the beginner classes so don’t be shy!)

UBC Foil Open Jan 11 (with bonus Epee!)

Novice foil and epee, and Senior mixed foil events (unsanctioned)

Registration closes Jan 10. Register here

TFA Team event also Jan 11

Teams randomly assigned for all registrants! CFF license required

I am jealous I didn’t think of this idea first. Registration closes Jan 7 and you can register here

OSM Circuit 3 on Feb 7

Youth and senior sanctioned vents in sabre, foil, and epee. Sanctioned (CFF license required) Register here

Don’t forget Escrime Sundae

Come fence on a Saturday and enjoy and Escrime Sundae

Saturday May 23, 2026

Royal Oak Middle School

Unsanctioned

We have it all: Foil! Epee! Sabre!

Puns and ice cream abound!

Register here

National Theatre Live’s latest Hamlet is coming to the screen at Silver City Tillicum January 22. I’ve got tickets and I invite you all to join me!

If you have any doubts here is a promo video featuring their fight director and the leads practicing their fencing. (Notice the epee target discussion. What will happen in the final version!?!?)

It is screening at 6:45 (it’s 3 glorious hours!) … send me (Stacy) a note if you want to sit with me I’m near the back. 🙂 Tickets via NT Live

And of once you have seen Hamlet, the time is right to watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, as well as Canadian Comedy gem Slings and Arrows… and of course insert fencing scene dialogue into all your bouts.

And just because, here is a Hamlet Poster that is not from the NT live version at all but I really like this poster at it matches the CCFC logo so here it is.