Month: September 2023
End of Month Competition and Beginners Course
Another full on night of fencing which combined the 3rd week of our fencing beginners course and our End of the Month Competition for September. This time our competition was done with 2 poules. which were approximately a Senior and a Junior poule. We were very pleased to welcome amongst us Sam Blair who will be helping with our beginners as well as fencing. Many of us have known Sam for many years as a very effective fencer, Sam is starting his studies at Hallam University studying Sport and Exercise Science. Sam succeeded in winning our competition by one point!! Tonight was the 3rd week of our beginners course and our theme was developing more variety in defence. Our beginners are beginning to shape up as fencers very nicely and bringing a lot of energy and enthusiasm to their time in our club.
The results of our competition are –
Senior Competition
- 1st – Sam Blair
- 2nd – Ed Campion
- 3rd – Madoc Dawson
- 4th – Ron Law
- 5th – Fernando Ruscillo
- 6th – Alistair Guest
- 7th – Rob Deniszczyc
Junior Competition
- 1st – John Wiles (Novice Trophy Winner)
- 2nd – Cameron Nicholson
- 3rd – Jawad Msaiei
- 4th – Eric Haughton-Wall
Fencing Beginners Course!!!
Our Fencing Beginners Course will be starting tomorrow! There are 28 people signed up of all ages. Should be great fun!!!!
Monday Night Fencing Sessions!!!!
From Monday 18th September Sheffield Buccaneers Fencing Club will be running a Monday fencing session at Mercia School, Carter Knowle Rd, Sheffield S7 2DY, this is just of Abbeydale Road –
Map . The session will run from 7:00 till 9:00 and it will be preferable if fencers arrive just before 7:00 as people will need to be let through the door. These Monday sessions were previously run by the coach Pete Ellinger who is now retiring. There is a large car park opposite the main school entrance.
August End of Month Competition
Our August end of term competition took place on 30th August. This time we had 1 round of Poules followed by Direct Elimination including a 3rd-4th play off. After a closely fought final between Mike McKay and Ethan Daikin, expertly refereed by 8 year old Gus Law Mike McKay won 15-12. So AGAIN Mike gets his name on the trophy. The winner of the novice trophy (Under 3 Years Experience) was Cameron Nicholson. Cameron started with our beginners course this year and has just recently been training with our senior fencers………………………Also, there were chocolates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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