Robert Thomas has fenced his two events out at the Nationals in San Jose. On Tuesday, he fenced the Vet 40 epee, a strong A event. There were 14 As in a field of about 48. Robert had a tough first pool, but then won the biggest upset in the event. He then lost to the person who took the bronze medal. Yesterday, in the Div II epee, he had a good pool round, 4-2, with both losses being 4-5. Unfortunately, as sometimes happens in these big events, he was rewarded by getting a fencer who had a bad first round, but got hot in the DEs. Robert lost a close one and his opponent rode that upset all the way to an 8th place finish out of 163 fencers.
In the other Wilmington Fencer news, John Rea took 10th in the Vet 70 epee, and won a bronze medal in the Vet 70 foil.
Just to show that there are levels of fencing, and then there are levels of fencing; Shiaoching Tse, a very good A foilist from Raleigh is out at Nationals. She finished 28th out of 140+ fencers in the Junior event, so she is fencing pretty well. She tried the Div I event, the actual US National Championship. She finished last. In her 6 pool bouts, she didn’t get a touch in 4 of them. I am certain she will learn from the experience and do better the next time she goes into that event. Plus she can use the experience as she competes in the Cadet event today. However, it shows that just when you may think you are getting good, you might find that there is a whole new world of fencers better than you. So you need to keep practicing to improve.
The Milewski girls have their events over the weekend and I will keep you updated as to how they do.
Thanks to everyone who has been helping with the painting. We have had good numbers helping, so the sessions have not been too long. Tonight we need to finish and touch up the light blue, tape, and paint the strips. We will start about 7 pm if you can make it. Should be another short night if we get some help. Please clean your shoes/socks/feet so you don’t track dirt on the fresh paint.
Monday night at 7 pm will be the lacquering of the floor. Hopefully we can get two layers of lacquer down.
Right now the thought is that we will be back up and running on Thursday of next week. We want to give the lacquer plenty of time to dry. We may need to take some time and move everything back, so there may be some finishing work that first night.
I am definitely taking some people up to the beginning coaching clinic in Fayetteville on Saturday the 11th and should have room for 1-2 more if anyone is interested. Contact me or look on askfred for details.
The beginner camp starts on the 13th and they should have a nice looking floor to start on. Have interested people contact me if they have questions.
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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