Streatham Fencing Club
Lots of things have been going on since my last e-mail.
Gavin and the club Presdient managed to get ranking oints at the Sssex Open. We then followed this with third place (of 12) in the epee at the ULU team event. The team was Joel, Gavin and Roger. More points for Alex, Gavin and David followed at the Bedford Open.
Joshua came second at the Surrey Novice Foil.
After that came the trip to France which set a new standard of what the club can do.
>From there the circus moved on to the Miller Hallet - we'll ignore the men's results but Nike held her points in the Milner Barry. In the Wilkinson Sword we (Joel Roger and SAtya from Westminister School) came 11th of 16th.
Finally we had a good foil match against Salle Poisson d'Or (Leatherhead) - with Chirs pulling out a win ffor the A team (Chris, Max, and Gareth), a comfortable win for the B team (David Lowe, Joshua, and Mike Bourke), and a narrow defeat for the C team (Lara, Charles, and Steve). Congratlations to all involved and the debutants ( Mike, Max, Gareth, Lara, and Joshua for their first team appearances).
Roger
Sussex Open / Socials
We had a decent outing at the Sussex Open - Gavin,
John and myself all made the L64 in the Epee and Nick (Fishosy) the L32
in th Foil. Good to be back at Posrtslade.
Charlie is organising teams for the ULU Team event (Uni London Union,
Malet Street, near Heals) - teams of three at each weapon - we'll try and
take as many down as we can as it's a good fun event - here's a br on
site - we hold the epee and were second in the foil - e-mail is above.
Date is Sat 20th Oct .
The Miller Hallet / Milner Barry (Epee) is in Harrow w/e 24th Nov -
thereis another epee team event for each we'll try and get a couple of
teams in. Final event this term will be the Barwell Cup (prob 9th
December) which is a mixed team event (Mens Foil, women's Foil, Epee,
Sabre) again we'll try and get as many teams n as we can - five is our
record.
The social event for 3rd Jan will be a vist to the Terracotta Army
exhibition at the British Museum - I'll book tickets by the end of the
month if you could get back to me.
The Christmas Dinner will be on December 20th , probably at Cafe Purple
again.
Cheers
Roger
Thursdays social
Crown and Sceptre at 8.00
Email should have gone out last night.
Croquet on 23rd
Bbq / outdoor sabre at Barry's on 19th
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Isle of Wight
A very good time was had by all - big hurrah to Ez who finsihed 38/75 in the foil and got a ranking at the first attempt. He almost did the same in epee, beating last years winner in the pools - this was less than three hours after Alan gave him his first lesson. Gavin and Nick made the last 64.
Many thanks to Barry, Alan and Nick for driving and Lara for her support. (I'll bring it back on Thursday :) )
Roger
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Hampshire Open
Foil - congratulations to Jo who came 10th and Nick F who came 21. (Of 59) in the foil.
Jean's visit to Streatham obviously paid off as he finished 9th.
No men's sabre results to hand.
Roger
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We woz robbed !!
A good day out at the Surrey Epee and Sabre -Chris Towl came 5th - Gavin
lost by the odd point to Graham Miles to finish 14th and Chris Coton
came 13th in the epee. Ceri came 5th in the sabre. Can't remember Steve
and Spencers results and refuse to remember mine.
The sabreurs had a good outing but were unsucessful.
However the best was yet to come - the epeeists (Chris Coton, Joel and
Gavin) beat Guildford 45-40 and then duffed LTFC C. They then faced
Redhill and Reigate Epee Club, including Chris Howser (2005 British
Men's Epee Champion) - we won 45-41 with Joel holding out against Chris
Howser charge. The final was a truncated affair against LTFC due to the
hour - which ended up 45-36 based on three DEs henc e the e-mail' title.
Thanks to Alan and Tony Coton for their support.
Isle of Wight
Congratulations to Tarenn for coming sixth, everyone else for loads of good results - Padraig came close against Tim Buzwell - and Aidan pulled off a blinder of a come back (12 - 4 down at one point) to get into the rankings. We finished joint third in the foil team listings.
Many thanks to those who organised, drove, cheered on, coached and armourered.
Roger
