Jersey. Unfortunately Nicole’s results are not yet up on askfred.
This week is the advanced foil camp with advanced sabre next week. Other
than that, it should be a pretty standard week of practice. Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday at Wilmington and Friday night at Camp Lejeune.
bad for a year’s worth of fencing.
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 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.
Starting
to slowly work back into the competitive season. Mid-South is hosting
foil and sabre events on August 9. The Open foil is one fencer away from being a B1. They are also having a Y-14 foil.
Charlotte is hosting a C and under event on the 16th. See askfred for more details.
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,
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
