A lot to cover this week, so here goes…
Our Beginners were introduced to Epee and Sabre last week, they did very well!
And this Thursday it’s Club Team Competition Night
The Beginners will be put into teams with more experienced fencers, for a friendly fun match.
Please sign in early so we can gauge numbers and weapon preferences accordingly.
3 COUNTIES LEAGUE NEWS
Last year’s results have been checked and the official results are as follows:
Congratulations to HITCHIN for winning the Foil and Overall League trophies!
Congrats to BEDFORD tor triumphing in Epee!
SAFC did well in the epee, finishing 3rd, and only missing out on 2nd place by a whisker. But not so well in foil or overall, coming in 6th for both.
Cap’n Roseblade is finalising the match schedule for 2023 so watch this space.
CLUB AGM: TUES. 21ST FEB
It’s the Club AGM on Tuesday 21st February
From 19.30 at the Garibaldi pub on Albert Street, just off Holywell Hill >MAP<
There’s a public car park just at the end of the road, on Keyfield Terrace (parking is free in the evenings)
The club will be providing some nibbles and a first bar drink.
If you’d like to know more about how the club is run, or even help out in any capacity, we’d love to see you there.
So we can gauge numbers, please let us know if you’ll be attending via the option on the sign-in page.
WANTED: HEAVY BREATHERS
Lyndsay is looking for fencers from any weapon to take part in a research study looking at the effect of 2 different fencing masks on our body’s temperature responses. It involves 2 visits to the university of Hertfordshire each lasting about 3 hours. You have to be male and between 17-55 years old. You will get a free Leon Paul exchange mask on completion of the study. The protocol is hard as it is supposed to represent a competition. So there will be lots of running on a treadmill! Please contact Lyndsay in person at a club night, or get in touch via the club and we’ll pass a message on.
AND FINALLY…
Some of our fencers are keen enough that they’re getting some extra-curricular fencing on a Friday lunchtime. Lunchtime Lungers as it has become known, contact Richard B if you’d like to participate, and he will recite to you a poem…
An Ode to the Veteran’s Lunge
Lunging with my friends, inspired me to write this rhyme.
Lunging with my friends, is a great way to pass the time
Lunging at lunchtime fills me with glee
Every time I lunge, I pass a little bit of wee
When I lunge I like to make it a spectacle
Especially when I score a touché on my opponent’s testicle
In celebration I fist pump the sky
My opponent, grabs his nuts and curls up to die
So lunging with my friends is the best thing by far
So remember, every time you lunge you’ll earn a little gold star
See you on the piste later… en garde! SAFC