October End of the Month Competition

Posted on 3 November 2024

Another ‘End of the Month’ competition at Sheffield Buccaneers Fencing Club! Again using a fencing ladder format. A very close finishing position between Sam Blair and Brandon Brittain with Sam just finishing ahead of Brandon on indicators. Final positions are –

1. Sam Blair
2. Brandon Brittain
3. Ron Law
4. Pete Senior
5. Felix Chen (top novice)
6. Charlotte Peat
7. Joel Mason
8. Lucy-Belle Williamson
9. Joseph McGowan
10. Gus Cheng
11. William Newell
12. Jason Lou Jieshan
13. James Mullaney
14. Ewan Eades
15. Anna Lishchuk

September 25th Club Competitions

Posted on 2 October 2024

We had 2 competitions in our club session on 25th September. Our usual End of the Month Competition following a fencing ladder format and for our younger fencers a team competition The Greats V Duck With Thorsen Davis, Aoife Williams and Jessie Bowman in the Greats and Asher Mullaney, George Read and Eito Fujiwara in Ducks. After a close match the score finished 45-42 to The Greats. The Final positions in our Fencing Ladder Competition are –

1. Mike McKay
2. Brandon Brittain
3. Felix Cahen
4. Luca Pastorello
5. Ron Law
6. Jason Lou Jieshan (Top Novice)
7. Joseph McGowan
8. William Newell
9. Charlotte Peak
10. Gus Cheng
11. Madoc Dawson
12. Cameron Nicholson
13. James Mullen
14. Eric Haughton Hall
15. Felix Chen
16. Georgina Peat
17. A J Thomas

Fencing Beginners Course has Started!!!

Posted on 17 September 2024

Sheffield Buccaneers Fencing Beginners course started on Monday 16th September with 27 people, both children and adults. Lots of enthusiasm and energy!! Our next course will be in January 2025.

August 2024 End of the Month Competition

Posted on 8 September 2024 Updated on 8 September 2024

Our ‘End of the Month’ Competition for August 2024 took place with 14 fencers including all ages this time. The competition took a Fencing Ladder format with fencers having the option of whether to fence to 5, 10 or 15 points with each bout. The overall positions are –

• 1st – Mike McKay
• 2nd – James Mullan
• 3rd – Ed Campion
• 4th – Charlie Thorogood
• 5th – Madoc Dawson
• 6th – Lou Jieshan (Winner of the Novice Trophy)
• 7th – Gus Cheng
• 8th – Peter Senior
• 9th – Rob Deniszczyc
• 10th – AJ Thomas
• 11th – Felix Chen
• 12th – William Newall
• 13th – Joseph McGowan
• 14th – Aoife Williams

Fencing on Mondays Starts Up!!!

Posted on 30 August 2024

Sheffield Buccaneers Fencing Club will be restarting our Monday fencing sessions again after a break over August. Sessions will run from 7:00 to 10:00 in the Heeley Hall at Birkdale School. We will, starting on the 16th September be running our beginners course on Mondays. Regular club fencers are also welcome to fence here on Mondays.

To get to the Heeley Hall, go down the short road at the top of Oakholme Road and the entrance to the school is at the end of this road. Turn right and down the corridor you will find the Heeley Hall.

Payment as with our Wednesday club session is £7.00 per session payable by bank transfer.

Temporary Change of Sheffield Buccaneers Wednesday Fencing Venue

Posted on 2 May 2024

Due to exams taking place in Birkdale School sports hall, there will be a change of venue from the 8th  May, i.e. FROM NEXT WEEK!!! Our club will meet at our occasional alternative venue – The Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP.  The entrance to the centre will be via the fire doors on Coates Street.  We will be using this alternative venue until the end of June. As many club members will know this venue is considerably smaller and so for this reason there will be priority for juniors use of space up till 8.30.  The club is also using the Heeley Hall at Birkdale School from 7.00 on Mondays where we are currently running a beginners course, regular club fencers are also welcome to fence here on Mondays.

End of the Month Competition for April 24

Posted on 27 April 2024 Updated on 28 April 2024

On April 24th we had a fantastic ‘End of the Month’ competition with a total of 26 fencers taking part, many of them with strong National Ranking. This was part of a club training session with over 40 fencers. Again we used a ladder system ensuring everybody got the maximum amount of fencing and there were many fantastic bouts took place. It was very difficult to calculate the results as with the excitement and the enjoyment of fencing many fencers forgot to write down the results of bouts, though after comparing different score sheets I think I was able to get pretty close to the final positions which are –

• 1 – Jeremy Chang
• 2 – Archie Broughton
• 3 – James Mullen
• 4 – Sam Blair
• 5 – Charlotte Peat – Winner of the Best Novice Trophy
• 6 – Ron Law
• 7 – Madoc Dawson
• 8 – Felix Cahen
• 9 – Henry Harris
• 10 – Luca Pastorello
• 11 – Zack Sefton
• 12 – Make McKay
• 13 – Ed Campion
• 14 – Adriana Dermetxis
• 15 – Jacob Smith
• 16 – Reuben Wheeler
• 17 – Nicholas Williams
• 18 – Joe Blair
• 19 – Georgina Peat
• 20 – Alistair Guest
• 21 – Eric Houghton-Hall
• 22 – Sebastian Greenhow
• 23 – Toby Wheeler
• 24 – Amelia Price
• 25 – Anna Lishchuk
• 26 – Joseph McGowan

Temporary Change of Venue

Posted on 23 January 2024

Due to Birkdale not being available on Wednesday 31st January, our fencing sessions will take place at The Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP. As the venue is much smaller than Birkdale Sports Hall beginners from our ongoing course are welcome and will have a free session as an addition to our course.