Practice will be a bit truncated this week. St. Mary wants to set up for the haunted house part of
their Fall Festival on Thursday, October 23rd. No practice that
afternoon or evening. Right now all the Wednesday classes are still on. We will
need to pull the overheads down on Tuesday the 21st and put them back up
the next Tuesday.
October
25th is The Joseph Cadole in New
Bern. It is an E and under foil event, perfect for those of you looking
for a lower stress first tournament or a real shot at your foil
ranking. I am going so let me know if you are interested in a ride.
There is also an epee event in Charlotte that day which is shaping up to be a B rated event. See askfred for details.
Our
next set of Homeschool classes will start on Wednesday, October 29th.
That should let us finish that set of classes just before the holidays.
We
will have practice at Camp Lejeune on Halloween night. I would ask
everyone who will definitely be there to let me know that week, so I
only have to pack the equipment we will need.
November 1st is a tournament at Raleigh. It is being held in conjunction with a clinic being dome by Michael Marx. The clinic lasts all weekend with the tournament late Saturday afternoon. Therefore there is no reason for you epeeists to complain about having to get up early.
The
next set of evening classes will start on Monday, November 3rd. I am
also planning to start our next set of afterschool classes that first
week of November.
their Fall Festival on Thursday, October 23rd. No practice that
afternoon or evening. Right now all the Wednesday classes are still on. We will
need to pull the overheads down on Tuesday the 21st and put them back up
the next Tuesday.
October
25th is The Joseph Cadole in New
Bern. It is an E and under foil event, perfect for those of you looking
for a lower stress first tournament or a real shot at your foil
ranking. I am going so let me know if you are interested in a ride.
There is also an epee event in Charlotte that day which is shaping up to be a B rated event. See askfred for details.
Our
next set of Homeschool classes will start on Wednesday, October 29th.
That should let us finish that set of classes just before the holidays.
We
will have practice at Camp Lejeune on Halloween night. I would ask
everyone who will definitely be there to let me know that week, so I
only have to pack the equipment we will need.
November 1st is a tournament at Raleigh. It is being held in conjunction with a clinic being dome by Michael Marx. The clinic lasts all weekend with the tournament late Saturday afternoon. Therefore there is no reason for you epeeists to complain about having to get up early.
The
next set of evening classes will start on Monday, November 3rd. I am
also planning to start our next set of afterschool classes that first
week of November.
November 7th will start the next set of classes at Camp Lejeune.
The next youth event will be held on November 8th. Foil at 10 am, sabre at 1:30 pm, epee at 3:30 pm.
For adults, ECU is hosting their Jack Rackham event that Saturday.
The first homeschool league event of the year will be held on Sunday, November 9th at a location yet to be determined. At the moment we only have 4 people who have said they want to be a part of a team. We have to have a roster by November 1st, so we need to get anyone interested signed up ASAP. My guess is our team would be a B team as it doesn’t look like we have enough for people over 13 for an A team.
Sign ups for JO qualifiers are now on askfred.net.
The qualifying events are on Saturday and Sunday, November 15th and
16th. All the Junior events (ages 13-19) are on Saturday and the Cadet
(ages 13-16) qualifiers are on Sunday. The JOs are always held over
the President’s Day weekend in February. The events are in Richmond,
VA, this year. It probably will not be much closer for a long time.
That means A) it is easy to get to, and B) the qualifiers will probably
be large events that might be highly rated. I believe the last day to sign up before the fees increase is November 9th.
The qualifying events are on Saturday and Sunday, November 15th and
16th. All the Junior events (ages 13-19) are on Saturday and the Cadet
(ages 13-16) qualifiers are on Sunday. The JOs are always held over
the President’s Day weekend in February. The events are in Richmond,
VA, this year. It probably will not be much closer for a long time.
That means A) it is easy to get to, and B) the qualifiers will probably
be large events that might be highly rated. I believe the last day to sign up before the fees increase is November 9th.
That weekend, Fredericksburg has large Vet events on Saturday and Richmond has women only events on Sunday.
The
North Carolina Fencing League’s first event is
November 22nd and we will be hosting it. It is a foil team event and
takes teams of three fencers and they can have a sub. It doesn’t cost
anything, but it is appreciated if we have volunteer referees. Fencers
do need a full outfit including knickers and underarm protector. Let us
know if you might be interested in fencing and don’t have such things
yet so we can see if the club has your size or can borrow from someone.
Our teams fence in the B Division since we don’t represent a school.
In that division fencers can be any age so we will put together as many
teams as we can. Of course, you will possibly be fencing people all the
way up to high school age, but we can try to split some of it out by
ages.
North Carolina Fencing League’s first event is
November 22nd and we will be hosting it. It is a foil team event and
takes teams of three fencers and they can have a sub. It doesn’t cost
anything, but it is appreciated if we have volunteer referees. Fencers
do need a full outfit including knickers and underarm protector. Let us
know if you might be interested in fencing and don’t have such things
yet so we can see if the club has your size or can borrow from someone.
Our teams fence in the B Division since we don’t represent a school.
In that division fencers can be any age so we will put together as many
teams as we can. Of course, you will possibly be fencing people all the
way up to high school age, but we can try to split some of it out by
ages.
Our next home adult event is December 13. Open foil, open epee, and Vet epee. Start getting signed up now.
pax vobiscum,
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
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
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
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