Epee & foil fencers should contact their weapon committees for details. From the Sabre Club newsletter July 2002:- Athletes Committee British Fencing is about...
Neil Brown
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Jul 7, 2002 2:39 pm
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Included with BFA membership in a lot of cases. Separate subscription (Oct 2000 - latest one I have with me) quoted at £14.50 - apply direct to BFA HQ: 1...
Madonna Not Up For Grabs to Brosnan Pop icon Madonna is set to play a lesbian fencing instructor in the new Bond film, Die Another Day. But will she be able to...
Anyone able to answer this can they email val.adrian@... Many thanks Steve To: mail@... Subject: Please help Hello, I wonder if you can...
Steven Allen
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Jul 17, 2002 5:17 pm
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Is this the 'Circle of Defence? Prime, Seconde, Tierce, Quarte, Quinte, Sixte, Septime, Octave - supposedly the most natural sequence of parries against a...
Alan Grafton
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Jul 18, 2002 10:49 am
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Interesting - I've checked the FIE site - the Coupe du Nord appears to hve sprouted some epee competitions as well as the sabre - they are open entry FIE...
In "The Sword" April 2002, page 19 is an article on the amazing sabre god Laszlo Szepesi titled "The Rise Of French Sabre". Under the paragraph Basic Tactical...
Martin Brill
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Jul 29, 2002 7:06 am
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Okay, no-one else has bothered to answer, so I'll give it a go... A line is not an attack, it's a condition. In presenting a line, you are (I suppose) also...
Greetings all, I was wondering whether anybody had any inside knowledge of the current state of sabre in Vancouver, BC. Is it a complete backwater? Is there...
Heather Maclaren. Sorry I don't understand what you want to express "inside knowledge of the current state of sabre in Vancouver, BC."? Cheers Edward Liu ... ...
edward
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Aug 8, 2002 3:32 am
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Well, like people here have opinions on which are the good clubs for sabre in various regions of the country. If you look at the websites they'll all try to...
merlin's new price list out ! York Viking Shield ~ foil & epee competition 21st Sept 2002 Saturday * all with license invited...
merlin enterprises
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Aug 8, 2002 10:06 am
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Has anyone paid much attention to the new BFA coaching scheme featured in this last edition of The Sword and on the website and if so does anyone have any...
Alan Grafton
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Aug 12, 2002 2:46 pm
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It's just another set of exams for you to go through !!! It seems to be one step in the right direction (bringing in the Hungarians) and one step in the wrong...
It managed to give me a wry smile, but I'm worried that many foilists won't see the irony. Alan ... From: Paul Arnold [mailto:mr_chatterbox21@...] ...
Alan Grafton
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Aug 16, 2002 8:29 am
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Sad, but unfortunately true. Either that, or we have the "Oh, they don't understand, it's our weapon, and we'll fence it and referee it just how we wish." ...
But it's my weapon, too and I want it fenced properly! I'm sure this has all been discussed before but can anyone suggest how and when this rot started? A lot...
Alan Grafton
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Aug 19, 2002 8:34 am
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All the following is my personal opinion, and so may be a load of plop, but... Surely it has to have something to do with the inexperienced watching the more...
Excellently and succinctly put Simon! My only worry is that, from your analogy, one way to combat the trend would be to ban fencing from the telly! I think...
Alan Grafton
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Aug 19, 2002 12:33 pm
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It will not happen while coaches continue to have undue influence on who is allowed to referee....
For a lot of the time the refs ARE fencers, not actively engaged at that moment. This compounds the problem when a ref who knows the rules and the 'latest' FIE...
Hello For those of you with Sky Digital, British Eurosport are showing action from the World Championships tomorrow (7pm) , Wednesday and Thursday (both ...
Hello, I am a recent inductee to the world of fencing and find it a great sport. The way I see it is that it is so much more about brains and not brawn and...
Paul Kersey
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Aug 20, 2002 5:06 am
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Hello, I am a recent inductee to the world of fencing and find it a great sport. The way I see it is that it is so much more about brains and not brawn and ...
Paul Kersey
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Aug 20, 2002 5:12 am
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Not at all - at the top level there is a lot less of a problem. The international federation has told the referees to tighten up quite a lot on fencers (and...
