CFFA update for July 20 | Cape Fear Fencing Association

There is a lot of filming going on in the area and the church is doing some work in the parking lot, so parking will probably be tight for a while.

A bit of bad news. We just received the prices for memberships for next year and the non-competitive membership is going up to $10. Still not bad for a year’s worth of fencing.

Remember

that July 31st is the last day of the season for USA Fencing purposes.
You need to have the $10 non-competitive membership to practice or
compete at any level and the
more expensive competitive membership to participate in official USA
Fencing events. The local kids events we do here are not official USA
Fencing events. If you do it electronically at the USA Fencing website,
please bring me a copy. Technically, that means that for August 1st,
the Friday of the advanced foil camp and that night at Camp Lejeune, you
should have a membership to fence. I will hopefully have the forms which you can
fill out then as a backup.

Also remember that August 1 means that it will be time for those of you who pay dues in longer installments to renew your memberships.

Just finished the beginner camp Friday, and this next week is the advanced epee camp. Advanced foil and sabre camps to follow.

Other than that, it should be a pretty standard week of practice. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at Wilmington and Friday night at Camp Lejeune.

Starting to slowly work back into the competitive season. Mid-South is hosting foil and sabre events the weekend of August 8-9. The foil only has 9 people at the moment, but it is 3 Bs and 6 Cs. 6 more bodies of any rank and it is probably a B1.

The
first evening beginner class will start Tuesday, August 19.
The experiment I tried with beginner class at the first of the year
didn’t work as well as I had hoped, so I am going back to the 6 week,
two night a week model. Afterschool will start for returning fencers
the day after Labor Day and for new beginners on the Monday after Labor
Day. Homeschool classes will start on the Wednesday after Labor Day.

I have had a request for people to do a “demo” during the Riverfest weekend of October 4th. A company is renting the battleship and would like a 10-20 minute demo. However, it sounds more like what they would like is really a stage combat skit with pirates. I don’t have all the details yet, but let me know if you might be interested in working something up.

pax vobiscum,

Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon

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