Streatham Fencing Club
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
An Epic Weekend
Vicky won the Mount-Haes (U14) Girls Foil and Master at Arms at the Public Schools Fencing Championships, was 5th in the Epee and 7th in the Sabre.
We beat Guildford on Friday - Gavin, Joel and Chris (Towl) winning the epee, Gavin coming from behind in the last leg; Bob, Hlly and Martin won teh foil; Peter, Aidan and a Guildfordite won the B team Foil; Sarah (Morgan) and Pod performed gallantly in the sabre as we got the kitchen sink thrown at us.
Toby made the L16 at the Invicta Open (Epee). Nick (Stuart) and Joel made the points - Joel going out 15-14 to Howard West. Bob was third in the foil, while Martin, Nick Fihosy, Jean and Alwyn all made the L32. The star, though was Tarenn, who came third in the Women's Foil.
We then followed this up with a supercharged effort at the Surrey Novices and Intermediates with two wins, a second and a third - Afra won the Women's Novice Foil, to be our first success from the junior section, and Hamish the Men's, with Pod picking up a bronze.
Ewan made the L8 of the Men's Intermediate Epee, to be put out by Gavin, who finished third. Rick then completed the medal haul by finishing second in the Men's Intermediate Foil (The Captain's Cup).
Congratulations to all concerned and to Tony for his coaching and support.
Many thanks to those who organised and those who provided lifts.
Another sucess
Congratulations to Bob for a L16 at Edinburgh, and to Vicky whose school (Bishop Challenger) won all three events she was in at the British Schools Team Championships and was at least second in her foil event at the Public Schools today