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CFFA update for February 5

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

Congrats to all the Eagles fans.

Per usual, there was a lot of fencing going on this weekend. On the homeschool front, Phil Nazzaro and Liam Coyle represented Southeastern in Oak Ridge. We borrowed one of the Oak Ridge fencers to fill out the team and they went 3-0. They beat New Bern and Twin City 45-31 and Oak Ridge 45-29.

At the RYC in Apex, on Saturday Will Golder went 3-3 in his pool for Y-14 men, won his first DE, but then lost the second to the number one seed and finished 13th out of 31. Jackson Jones in his first USA Fencing competition lost a close first DE 8-10 to finish his day in the Y-10 mixed foil. On Sunday, Nicole Milewski went 5-1 in her pool of Y-14 women’s epee. She got her revenge for the one loss in the gold medal match, winning 15-13.

Our next beginner class starts tonight, February 5th, at 6:30 pm. Otherwise it will be a regular week of practice.

February 10 is the NCFL individual conference qualifiers at Apex.

That
weekend is also Mid-South’s Annual Grand Open. They will have events
in all three weapons split by gender. See askfred for the schedule.

Also
on Saturday the 10th is a foil and epee event in Charleston, South
Carolina. At the moment, a number of our fencers are planning to attend
and the epee looks to be at least a B event. The foil make make a C event.

I am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis
over
the President’s Day weekend. On Saturday the 17th, Donny Zelinski is coming down to
run a youth event. We will compress our normal schedule so foil will start at 10 am, sabre AND epee will both start at 1:30 pm. We will award the medals and sword points for events per usual. Anything that parents or older siblings can do to help such as hooking up fencers, refereeing, and dressing fencers will be appreciated.

Because
of my travel times, etc., there will be no Thursday, February 15
afterschool or evening class (there will probably be a standard
practice). No Topsail or Camp Lejeune classes on Friday. No
afterschool on Monday, the 19th as St. Mary is off for President’s day.
There should be the Monday evening class.

February 24th is the NCFL individual championships in Greensboro.

March 3rd is the homeschool team championship in Greensboro.

Also on March 3rd are some unsanctioned foil and epee events in youth and adult categories at Apex.

The weekend of March 10th is a Youth NAC in Baltimore. If anyone besides Nicole is signed up, please let me know. It will cause some changes in schedule.

March 17-18 is the Y-14, Div II, and Div III qualifiers in Greensboro. These will qualify you (if you do well enough) for the National Championships in St. Louis. Otherwise they may be good events just for the practice. Check askfred for more details.

The
Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden is March 24. This is still the only 3 weapon
event

exclusively for women in the state, so it would be good to get our
people signed up
soon to draw other women. There hasn’t really been anyone signing up
from our club in the last couple of weeks. We can
make this a really excellent competition, but our women need to show
they are interested. I realize it is still almost two months out, but
we need to pump up the numbers now to attract rated fencers.

I have received very little input regarding camps. Here is a first draft of dates. Let me know if anyone has any issues.

July 9-13 beginning foil

July 16-20 advanced foil

July 23-27 advanced epee

July 30 – August 3 advanced sabre

August 6-10 ?

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

CFFA update for January 28

January 28, 2018January 28, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

Wrightsville Beach Magazine has done a nice article about fencing in Wilmington. You can access it through the link: http://www.wrightsvillebeachmagazine.com/flash/2018-2/#/20/

I have a few hard copies at the club for those who want one for a scrapbook.

Herman is looking to put together an order this week, so get us what you need. Additionally, 6 month dues are due on Feb 1 or thereabouts.

Yesterday, Robert Thomas went out to the epee event in Charlotte. He went 3-3 in his pool and won his first DE. He then succumbed to Lars Hansen, the A from Fayetteville.

I went up to Chapel Hill and refereed the NCFL team event. For the men, it was Research Triangle 1st, Bishop 2nd, and Chapel Hill 3rd. For the women, it was Chapel Hill 1st, Orange 2nd, and Salem 3rd.

Practice will be getting more toward normal this week as UNCW will start coming down on Wednesday nights. Friday is a new class at Camp Lejeune.

February 3rd is a homeschool meet at Oak Ridge which will start at 1:30 pm.

February
3rd and 4th is a foil and epee RYC at Apex. The events are split by
gender and are Y10, Y12, and Y14 events. More information is up on
askfred. The first entry deadline has passed so entering will be a bit expensive.

Our next beginner class starts Monday, February 5th, at 6:30 pm.

February 10 is the NCFL individual conference qualifiers at Apex, I believe.

That
weekend is also Mid-South’s Annual Grand Open. They will have events
in all three weapons split by gender. See askfred for the schedule.

Also
on Saturday the 10th is a foil and epee event in Charleston, South
Carolina. At the moment, a number of our fencers are planning to attend
and the epee looks to be at least a B event.

I am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis over
the President’s Day weekend. I believe Donny Zelinski is coming down to run a youth event. I will let everyone know for certain once we can confirm that and determine start times.

Because of my travel times, etc., there will be no Thursday, February 15 afterschool or evening class (there will probably be a standard practice). No Topsail or Camp Lejeune classes on Friday. No afterschool on Monday, the 19th as St. Mary is off for President’s day. There should be the Monday evening class.

The Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden is March 24. This is still the only 3 weapon event

exclusively for women in the state, so it would be good to get our
people signed up
soon to draw other women. There hasn’t really been anyone signing up from our club except for Taylor in the last couple of weeks. We can make this a really excellent competition, but our women need to show they are interested. I realize it is still almost two months out, but we need to pump up the numbers now to attract rated fencers.

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

CFFA update for January 22

January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

Herman has put in the most recent order and is looking at the first week of February for the next order. Let him or me know if you want/need something.

Also, for those of you on the 6 month plan, the next installment for dues is February 1st.

A lot of fencing happened this weekend. On Saturday, we hosted the Homeschool League meet. Our Southeastern Cardinal A team of Phil Nazzaro, Kyler Schoonmaker, and Liam Coyle went 2-1. They defeated New Bern 45-31 and Twin City 45-36. They lost to Oak Ridge 40-45.

On Sunday, we had 3 teams go to the NCFL meet in Apex. The Hoggard men’s team of Will Golder and Andrew Whitehead went 2-2. Cammy Herbert was the Hoggard women’s team again, and you cannot win with just one fencer. It is hard to win with just two fencers. Will only lost one bout on the day. Also competing was the Ashley Women’s team. This was their first competition and they went 3-1, defeating Hoggard, Research Triangle, and Orange High Schools. They were led by founder Emma Graf.

Elina Grooman competed in her first USA Fencing event at Mid-South. She won a couple of pool bouts, but lost her first DE to the person who finished third. She came in at 10th.

January
27th is supposed to be the NCFL State team championship. I am
not certain of the location, but will keep you informed.

For adults Charlotte has an Open epee event and a U foil event on the 27th. The epee is currently an A event while the foil needs a couple of bodies to be rated.

Sunday,
January 28th, is an unrated, split by gender event up at All-American
in Fayetteville. Lots of spaces for women, only one for men. Men’s is listed as sanctioned, the women’s is not. See
askfred for details.

February 3rd is a homeschool meet at Oak Ridge which will start at 1:30 pm.

February 10 is the NCFL individual conference qualifiers at a location to be decided.

That
weekend is also Mid-South’s Annual Grand Open. They will have events
in all three weapons split by gender. See askfred for the schedule.

Also
on Saturday the 10th is a foil and epee event in Charleston, South
Carolina. At the moment, a number of our fencers are planning to attend
and the epee looks to be at least a strong C event.

I am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis over
the President’s Day weekend. We may
actually use this date as a make up for the Old Man Winter. If not, it will be a youth event. I will
keep you posted.

The Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden (March 24). This is still the only 3 weapon event

exclusively for women in the state, so it would be good to get our
people signed up
soon to draw other women. There is no reason the epee can’t be an A and
the foil and sabre at least have some kind of rating, but we need our women to get entered.

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

CFFA update for January 14

January 14, 2018January 14, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

Hoggard sent a two man team and a one woman team to the NCFL meet at Chapel Hill yesterday. Will Golder and Andrew Whitehead went 1-3 as they were always giving away 3 matches out of the 9. Will went 8-2 for the day. Cammy Herbert fenced for the women and inevitably lost all of her matches, but actually went 4-4 individually.

Nicole Milewski attended the Capitol Clash Super Youth Circuit up in Maryland. On Saturday, in the Y-14, she was 3-3 in her pool and unfortunately lost her first DE. Today in the Cadet she was also 3-3, but won her first two DEs, one of which was an upset of the number 7 seed. She ended up 13th out of 79 fencers and was the highest finishing D rated fencer.

Tomorrow there is no afterschool practice as St. Mary is closed for MLK day. The rest of the week should be pretty well back to normal. I will be in Wednesday evening to help prep the Ashley school team if anyone wants to come down.

January
20 is the next homeschool event and we will be hosting it. Start time
is 1:30 pm. We can actually hold a morning practice as I doubt the
homeschoolers will be arriving early, although I will invite them. I will be in at 10:00 and we will need to opening up strips for the homeschoolers so their meet can ruin smoothly at 1:30 pm.

For
adults, Mid-South is having a women’s sabre and a Vet combined sabre
event.

Richmond is hosting the Hangover Open. Usually the Hangover has
solid B or A rated events, but looks smaller than normal this year. Only the open epee looks like it might become an A event.

Sunday, January 21st will be a make up date for an NCFL meet and will be held at Apex.

January
27th is supposed to be the NCFL State team championship. It appears that they will let people with only one other event attend so Hoggard and Ashley (if they make the 21st) should both be able to attend. I am not certain of the location.

Again, for adults Charlotte has an Open epee event and a U foil event on the 27th.

Sunday,
January 28th, is an unrated, split by gender event up at All-American
in Fayetteville. Lots of spaces for women, only three for men. Men’s is listed as sanctioned, the women’s is not. See
askfred for details.

February 3rd is a homeschool meet at Oak Ridge which will start at 1:30 pm.

February 3rd and 4th is a foil and epee RYC at Apex. The events are split by gender and are Y10, Y12, and Y14 events. More information is up on askfred. The entry deadline is this Friday and you must prepay on askfred to be registered.

February 10 is the NCFL individual conference qualifiers at a location to be decided.

That weekend is also Mid-South’s Annual Grand Open. They will have events in all three weapons split by gender. See askfred for the schedule.

Also on Saturday the 10th is a foil and epee event in Charleston, South Carolina. At the moment, a number of our fencers are planning to attend and the epee looks to be at least a strong C event.

I am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis over
the President’s Day weekend. We may
actually use this date as a make up for the Old Man Winter. I will
keep you posted.

The Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden (March 24). This is still the only 3 weapon event

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

NO afterschool fencing January 8th

January 8, 2018January 8, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

New
Hanover schools remain closed today, which means that St. Mary Catholic
school is also closed. Therefore no afterschool fencing today.

For
beginners, the first day is mainly about getting signed in and an
introduction to the history of fencing with a little bit of beginning
footwork. We’ll repeat the first class tomorrow (as is the usual
practice) if that works for you. If not we will get people signed up,
then just dive into the footwork, getting equipment, and moving on
during Wednesday and Thursday’s classes. If classes are cancelled
tomorrow, we will just start with the regular first class on Wednesday
and Thursday.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

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

CFFA update for January 4

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

I decided to go ahead and put out the weekly update early because of all the things (not) happening.

No practice at Wilmington this evening. No practice at Topsail or Camp Lejeune tomorrow. We are also cancelling the Old Man Winter tournament on Saturday. About half the field is from at least two hours away and many of those people are up the coast where it sounds like they got hit worse than we did.

At this point it looks like we will be able to get up and running next week. January
8th the next afterschool beginner class starts and afterschool fencing
will resume. January 9th is the next evening beginner class (a
Tuesday/Thursday one). January 10th will start the next homeschool
beginner class and finish up the one we cancelled from this week.

Right now I am planning to stay for Wednesday evening practice on the 10th even if UNCW is not there yet.

There should be fencing at Topsail and Camp Lejeune. We will pick up where we left off and add a week at the end so we can cover everything.

January
13 is the date for the next NCFL meet. Chapel Hill high has offered to host on that date. We can start looking into who is going and how we can get there.

January
20 is the next homeschool event and we will be hosting it. Start time
is 1:30 pm. We could actually hold a morning practice as I doubt the
homeschoolers will be arriving early.

For adults, Mid-South is having a women’s sabre and a Vet combined sabre event. Richmond is hosting the Hangover Open. Usually the Hangover has solid B or A rated events.

Sunday, January 21st will be a make up date for an NCFL meet and will be held at Apex.

January
27th is supposed to be the NCFL State team championship. You are
supposed to have attended two events to be eligible, so there needs to
be at least one more or a decision as to how we allow people to enter.

Again, for adults Charlotte has an Open epee event and a U foil event on the 27th.

Sunday,
January 28th, is an unrated, split by gender event up at All-American
in Fayetteville. Lots of spaces for women, only two for men. Men’s is listed as sanctioned, the women’s is not. See
askfred for details.

All
of our events for next spring are on askfred, including the Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden (March 24). This is still the only 3 weapon event

I
am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis over
the President’s Day weekend if all our fencers get signed up. The club
has cancelled the event we had scheduled for that day. (February 17)
Donny Zelinski, the coach at New Bern, has offered to run a youth event
at our club. He would need the help of some parents to make it
possible. Let me know if you can help, even if it is just keeping
everyone organized, hooking up fencers during the events in which your
children might be participating, etc. I would probably try to truncate
the schedule a bit because he would be driving two hours just to do this
for us, and we never seem to have sabre fencers. A few people have
contacted me about being willing to help, so this should happen. We may actually use this date as a make up for the Old Man Winter. I will keep you posted.

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

No practice tonight

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

No practice this evening due to the refreezing threat. Stay home and stay safe.

We will make a decision about the appropriately named Old Man Winter tournament once we see where travel stands tomorrow.

Information about Hampstead and Jacksonville is appreciated so I can make decisions about them, but currently leaning toward cancelling from what I have heard. Obviously will cancel at Topsail if Pender County has no school.

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

CFFA update for December 31

December 31, 2017December 31, 2017 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

Thanks to everyone who has been helping with getting the club jackets laundered.

There seems to be enough interest, so I will be in Tuesday night for practice. I will probably show up about 6:30 pm.

Homeschool
practice will start back up Wednesday, January 3rd. The consensus is
for a 1 pm start time for the more advanced fencers with a 1:30 start
for beginners for the rest of this academic year.

I haven’t heard from the UNCW fencers, so I don’t know when Wednesday evening practices will start back up.

Practice will happen Thursday night, January 4.

Topsail and Camp Lejeune practices will resume on January 5.

The
Old Man Winter tournament is the first Saturday of the year, January
6th. It will have Open foil, Open epee, and veteran (40+) epee. Still
need fencers to get signed up. At this point really small and not top
heavy, so a good event for those who want something a little less
threatening as a first or early in your career event. Epee needs some bodies to have a reasonable rating. Foil and Veteran’s epee are wide open. We are again at that point of how many refs do we hire and not knowing how many we need. Please get signed up on askfred ASAP if you are definitely going to be there.

January
8th the next afterschool beginner class starts and afterschool fencing
will resume. January 9th is the next evening beginner class (a
Tuesday/Thursday one). January 10th will start the next homeschool
beginner class.

Right now I am planning to stay for Wednesday evening practice on the 10th even if UNCW is not there yet.

January
13 is the date for the next NCFL meet, but that may change. I will
keep people informed. I am also not certain where and when the make up
event will be. If there is no NCFL meet that day, I will try to put a kid’s tournament together. It may be on really short notice, just FYI.

January 20 is the next homeschool event and we will be hosting it. Start time is 1:30 pm. We could actually hold a morning practice as I doubt the homeschoolers will be arriving early.

Sunday, January 21st is being mentioned as a possible make up date for an NCFL meet and would be held at Apex.

All
of our events for next spring are on askfred, including the Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden (March 24). This is still the only 3 weapon event

I
am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis over
the President’s Day weekend if all our fencers get signed up. The club
has cancelled the event we had scheduled for that day. (February 17)
Donny Zelinski, the coach at New Bern, has offered to run a youth event
at our club. He would need the help of some parents to make it
possible. Let me know if you can help, even if it is just keeping
everyone organized, hooking up fencers during the events in which your
children might be patricipating, etc. I would probably try to truncate
the schedule a bit because he would be driving two hours just to do this
for us, and we never seem to have sabre fencers. A few people have contacted me about being willing to help, so this should happen.

I need to start planning for camp dates now. The US
Summer Nationals end July 7th in St. Louis with Y10 and Y12 events.
Since we don’t currently have anyone competing nationally in those age
groups, I could probably start camps as early as July 9th. UNCW starts
back up Wednesday, August 22nd, but I may have training the week
before. So basically, I am looking at the weeks of:

July 9-13

July 16-20

July 23-27

July 30-August 3

August 6-10

August 13-17 (Outside possibility)

Usually
I try to do a beginner camp first, so they can then do advanced camps
if they like it. Then there is a week of an advanced camp for each
weapon. Sometimes when I have an extra week I have done a half day
beginner camp, but I am also open to other possibilities, or just taking
that week off. So, if you have a preference for a week for a camp, let
me know what works or does not work, and the child(ren) and weapon(s)
involved. Right now I am hoping to keep the camps at $195 for the week.

I haven’t actually heard from anyone as far as what weeks are best. Pretty soon I will need to just guess at what will work for people and I usually preclude someone by how I do it. So please give me some guidance.

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

Saturday practice

December 29, 2017December 29, 2017 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

Seems to be enough people who want a Saturday practice, so I will be in at 10 am.

pax tibi,

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

CFFA update for December 24

December 24, 2017December 24, 2017 Gregory Spahr Coaches Communication

First, a Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday is appropriate, to everyone out there. My gift to you is a really long note, so please read it all.

Wrightsville Beach Magazine will be doing an article on fencing for their February edition. They will be stopping by the clinic on Thursday (12/28) to take some photographs. If you don’t want your child to be in the photos, please contact me or tell me Thursday morning. Or if you are an adult attending and don’t want to be a part, also tell me.

Otherwise a light week with the holidays. No Tuesday night practice, so you will need to wait a little longer to try out all the gear that arrived on Monday.

RTF
(Research Triangle Fencing) is holding a foil/sabre camp December
27-30. These are basically the Duke coaches, so it will be a solid,
more advanced camp. See askfred for details.

The 28th seemed to be better for most of the people who replied concerning a one day camp from 9-5. Cost would be $20 for the whole day. The idea is to
work with people to improve their fencing, possibly getting them ready
for competitions. All weapons would be welcome. The further idea would
be to let parents drop youngsters off and have some personal time over
the vacation. Or for older fencers to leave the kids/grandkids at home
and have some fencing time. You (the children) would need to bring a lunch.

I will then hang around for evening practice.

No one has really said anything, so let me know if people would like to practice next Saturday morning.

Be warned, after New Year’s everything starts back up quickly and keeps roaring on until about April.

Also, let me know if people would like to practice the evening of January 2nd. (Tuesday)

Homeschool practice will start back up Wednesday, January 3rd. The consensus is for a 1 pm start time for the more advanced fencers with a 1:30 start for beginners for the rest of this academic year.

I haven’t heard from the UNCW fencers, so I don’t know when Wednesday evening practices will start back up.

Practice will happen Thursday night, January 4.

Topsail and Camp Lejeune practices will resume on January 5.

January 8th the next afterschool beginner class starts and afterschool fencing will resume. January 9th is the next evening beginner class (a Tuesday/Thursday one). January 10th will start the next homeschool beginner class.

January 20 is the next homeschool event and we will be hosting it. Start time is 1:30 pm.

Sunday, January 21st is being mentioned as a possible make up date for an NCFL meet and would be held at Apex.

January 27th is supposed to be the NCFL State team championship. You are supposed to have attended two events to be eligible, so there needs to be at least one more or a decision as to how we allow people to enter.

Sunday, January 28th, is an unrated, split by gender event up at All-American in Fayetteville. Lots of spaces for women, only two for men. See askfred for details.

All
of our events for next spring are on askfred, including the Lynn Krupey
Memorial Iron Maiden (March 24). This is still the only 3 weapon event
exclusively for women in the state, so it would be good to get our
people signed up
soon to draw other women. There is no reason the epee can’t be an A and the foil and sabre at least have some kind of rating, but all you of the female persuasion need to get signed up early to attract other fencers.

There are a few issues where I can use parents, fencers, or other interested parties to help.

First, we need to do some laundry over the break. Most of our jackets cannot be put in the dryer and so need a while to line dry. This is one of the few times during the year where we can give them that time without shorting ourselves for practice. Let me know if you can take a load or so. We would divvy them out after the clinic on the 28th and need them back by the homeschool practice on the 3rd.

I am currently planning to be away to the Junior Olympics in Memphis over the President’s Day weekend if all our fencers get signed up. The club has cancelled the event we had scheduled for that day. (February 17) Donny Zelinski, the coach at New Bern, has offered to run a youth event at our club. He would need the help of some parents to make it possible. Let me know if you can help, even if it is just keeping everyone organized, hooking up fencers during the events in which your children might be paricipating, etc. I would probably try to truncate the schedule a bit because he would be driving two hours just to do this for us, and we never seem to have sabre fencers.

Lastly, February 24th is the NCFL State Individual Championship in Greensboro. I will be there refereeing. It is also the date of Parent Magazine’s local Camp Expo from 10 am – 3 pm at the Mayfaire Town Center. Obviously, I can’t be at both. Are there any parents with a child(ren) who have attended the camps who would be willing to represent the club at Expo in exchange for a free entrance to this year’s camp? I also may need help with a website listing or an ad in the actual magazine for the same consideration.

Of course that means I need to start planning for camp dates now. The US Summer Nationals end July 7th in St. Louis with Y10 and Y12 events. Since we don’t currently have anyone competing nationally in those age groups, I could probably start camps as early as July 9th. UNCW starts back up Wednesday, August 22nd, but I may have training the week before. So basically, I am looking at the weeks of:

July 9-13

July 16-20

July 23-27

July 30-August 3

August 6-10

August 13-17 (Outside possibility)

Usually I try to do a beginner camp first, so they can then do advanced camps if they like it. Then there is a week of an advanced camp for each weapon. Sometimes when I have an extra week I have done a half day beginner camp, but I am also open to other possibilities, or just taking that week off. So, if you have a preference for a week for a camp, let me know what works or does not work, and the child(ren) and weapon(s) involved. Right now I am hoping to keep the camps at $195 for the week.

I think that is it.

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