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Foil Coaching Workshop – Sunday 16th March
This workshop will feature the topic of – How to deliver flowing, controlled and coordinated individual lessons incorporating surprise and variety. and will be led by Adam Blight.
This is a workshop aimed at coaches and also, fencers have the opportunity of spending the day receiving fencing lessons from the coaches attending the workshop. Any fencers who wish to attend, which will be free, just let Adam know.
This workshop will explore, explain and practice a range of specific coaching skills and concepts which can enable the coach to introduce unannounced elements into individual lessons in a controlled way. Through being able to reliably introduce surprise and variety into a free flowing lesson the fencer can develop resilience, adaptability and creativity and also the need for verbal instruction can be minimised. The workshop will approach topic from the perspective of working with fencers of all levels from relative beginners to capable international competitors.
As an example, this video shows a warm up lesson with Adam Blight and David Alexander at the 2015 European Championships in Montreux, Switzerland. This is a free flowing lesson with a minimum of verbal instruction where the fencer faces an appropriate level of challenge and the coach maintains control.
The Workshop will take place on Sunday 16th March at the Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP and run from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Entrance to the hall will be via the fire door access on Coates Street. The Park Centre is a 15 minute walk from the train station and has a tall brick chimney which can be seen from some distance. The cost will be £25 for BAF members and £30 for non members payable by bank transfer.
To sign up for this workshop, go to – Foil Coaching Workshop – 16th March
British Youth Championships Qualifier – Yorkshire & North East Regions
8th February 2025
York Railway Institute, 24 Queen Street, YORK, North Yorkshire, YO24 1AD
Registrations closes 1st February 2025 12:00 AM
This event is classified also as Yorkshire Youth Championship for U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 – only Yorkshire affiliated fencers.
Two rounds of poules for both regions together and split for Direct Eliminations will be separate for Yorkshire and North East. Seeding will be based on combined results from two rounds of poules.
This is closed event for fencers with BF membership affiliated Yorkshire or North East FOIL only.
Please refer to British Fencing website for rules and equipment requirements.
Provisional check in times below. Check in times will be revised based on final entry numbers and fencers notified by email.
10:00 – U10, U12, U14
12:00 – U16, U18
The Year of birth for the different age groups are –
- Under 12 – 2013, 2014
- Under 14 – 2011, 2012
- Under 16 – 2009, 2010
- Under 18 – 2007, 2008
Entry: bf.sport80.com
Organiser: Yorkshire Fencing
Organiser Telephone: 07500760057
Organiser Email: gemminix@gmail.com
In order to enter fencers who are not currently members of British Fencing will need to join. For this, go to – britishfencing.com/become-a-member/ . Select ‘Compete’ membership category. Under 14 membership costs £37 and Under 20 costs £48 for the year.
If there are any problems with either membership or entry contact me on 07761284378 or info@adamblight-fencing.com
Adam Blight
(Head Coach)
Temporary Change of Venue
Looking forward to getting back fencing on Wednesdays! There will be some dates when we will not be at Birkdale School but at The Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP. These dates are – 8th, 15th and 29th January12th February Hopefully this wont cause too much confusion.
Foil Coaching Workshop with Adam Blight
The workshop run on behalf of the British Academy of Fencing will demonstrate and explore individual lesson exercises in foil with a strong consideration of movement and it’s tactical implications. This will be a ‘sword in hand’ workshop open to BAF and non BAF coaches and also capable fencers who wish to receive lessons as part of the coaching practice. Recurrent themes in the different topics will be –
- Developing a good intuitions for – when to go, when not to go.
- Performing actions with – a good prospect of success.
- Performing actions in the context of tactically meaningful movement scenarios.
The day will work through the following topics –
Effective Simple Attacks – Following the mantra that – simple attacks are not simple, this practice will demonstrate a movement based approach to coaching simple attacks within individual lessons in a way which aims to ensure a fencer can develop – a good intuition for when to go and when not to go and perform simple attacks which have – a good prospect of success.
Movement Based Exercises – A series of predominantly choice reaction exercises where movement is a dominant factor and forms the basis for choice and decisions. The aim is that a fencer makes tactically appropriate decisions based on what is happening with the movement on the piste.
Pressing Actions – The use of pressing actions is a key component of today’s foil fencing. Exploring this topic will look at developing the capability for a fencer to effectively use and fence against pressing actions and for the coach to deliver lessons that enable this. In this topic the many different tactical and priority considerations are explored, and an approach on how to develop and deliver comprehensive pressing action based lessons and exercises is presented and practiced.
There will potentially an opportunity for club fencers to get the lessons from coaches taking part in the workshop and also learn more about fencing. To contact Adam, email:info@adamblight-fencing.com or mobile: 07761284378
The venue for this workshop is – The Park Centre, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QP. The Workshop will run from 10:00am till 4:00pm on Saturday 28th December. The cost for coaches will be: BAF Members – £25, Non BAF Members – £30. Coaches can bring a fencer and capable fencers can attend subject to available places. There will be a short break for lunch and those attending should bring something to eat and drink. Places are limited and there are already some good coaches signed up. Any coach who want to sign up for the course should go to – Foil Coaching Workshop.
October End of the Month Competition
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 –
- Sam Blair
- Brandon Brittain
- Ron Law
- Pete Senior
- Felix Chen (top novice)
- Charlotte Peat
- Joel Mason
- Lucy-Belle Williamson
- Joseph McGowan
- Gus Cheng
- William Newell
- Jason Lou Jieshan
- James Mullaney
- Ewan Eades
- Anna Lishchuk
September 25th Club Competitions
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 –
- Mike McKay
- Brandon Brittain
- Felix Cahen
- Luca Pastorello
- Ron Law
- Jason Lou Jieshan (Top Novice)
- Joseph McGowan
- William Newell
- Charlotte Peak
- Gus Cheng
- Madoc Dawson
- Cameron Nicholson
- James Mullen
- Eric Haughton Hall
- Felix Chen
- Georgina Peat
- A J Thomas
Fencing Beginners Course has Started!!!
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
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!!!
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.
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