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Newsletter CPE

June 2016

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CPE Congress in Statutes Harmonization with FIE established in June 2015 in this regard, the main directive is to eliminate any contradiction of statutes of the confederations with those of FIE. Thus compulsorily all confederations have the President of the FIE as a member of its Executive Committee, and Traditional commemorative photograph, will be conducted under the principles of CPE Congress in Panama 2016. good governance and transparency in relation to the elections and the auditing and publication of accounts, During the realization of the Pan synchronizing also , its elective periods to Fair Play in Panama American Senior Championships held in Jeno Kamuti awarded Diplomas the last year of the Olympic cycle, no , Panama from 21 to 26 later than two months before the June 2016, it was held the Congress of Page 2 elective Congress of the FIE. the Pan American Confederation. In addition, the FIE clarified guidelines for the election of presidents of As evidence of the development and confederations and members of their promotion of fencing in the Americas, we executive committees, so that these highlight the record of 32 participating processes are harmonized with their countries, ie, all members of the counterparts at the level of the FIE. Confederation, no exception. Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, and the CPE members seconded the motion of Bahamas, attended for the first time, its president in the sense of integrating a welcome! commission with the purpose of analyzing all the harmonization directives Standing out, among the various topics and make the necessary adjustments to discussed in this Congress, is the the existing statutes of the CPE. harmonization of statutes of the CPE with the FIE. Having defined the guidelines of In an atmosphere of camaraderie and Pan American Champioships harmonization in the Meeting of the collaboration, participants presented Results, Panama 2016 Executive Committee of the FIE of their interests and listened to their peers. February 11, 2016, in Lausanne, Page 3 Switzerland, as a continuation of the NEWSLETTER CPE | ISSUE V.1 - 4 2

His analytical mind helped him to get four titles of University World Champion, iin Panama showing that his creativity on the piste was also manifested in his classrooms.

In twenty years of representing , During the Pan American Dr. Kamuti was World Champion with his Championships, Dr. Jenő Kamuti, team, and three-time Olympic individual President of the International Committee and team silver at World Championships. for Fair Play, presented awards for He also won an individual World Cup. Technical Quality and outstanding sportsmanship to Maria Efficiency in Combat Part II Belen Perez Maurice, of Argentina and At the in and Evolution of Fencing and the Flèche in Sabre Ruben Limardo Gascon of Venezuela. Munich, he won the individual silver e medal. As an official in fencing, Dr. Limardo, Olympic Champion and Maria Kamuti has been a member of the Page 4 Belen, Pan American Executive Champion, among other Committee and titles, are clearly Secretary General prominent athletes of the FIE, as well as besides being member of the IOC ambassadors of sports Medical ethics and fair play, Commission. however, in the commemorative photo He is currently Dr. Kamuti gives the President of the moment a touch of joy International with his characteristic Committee for Fair smile but also ... much Play ICFP. more. So we see that the Dr. Kamuti is a smile of Dr. Jenö gastroenterologist, a Kamuti is a Panama Gallery 2016 specialty that requires a message of wisdom solidly founded for News developed sensitivity to know and young people, that he shares in all understand the personality and scenarios of international sport honored Page 6 psychological characteristics of patients by his presence, in which he currently by the known relationship of emotions promotes the Fair Play Charter, which and digestive system, sensitivity that Dr. mainly, in his own words, is his own Kamuti seized during his successful life as philosophy of life, on and off the fencing a member of the foil national team of piste. Hungary, to overcome his opponents by understanding their thoughts and emotions. NEWSLETTER CPE | ISSUE V.1 - 4 3

In Individual Men's Sabre, the Brazilian Renzo Agresta beat Andrew Mackiewicz of the with a score of 15 - 5. Campeonato The bronze went to Jose Quintero of Venezuela and the American Eli Panamericano Dershwitz. In the team events, the Canadian Epee fencers defeated the American team 45- 2016 44 to win the gold. The bronze went to beating Puerto Rico by 45 - 16. In RESULTS the Men's Team Foil, United States, second in the world ranking of the FIE, With thirty-two participating countries as defeated Brazil 11th in the same ranking, record figure, the Pan American Senior with a score of 45 - 38. the bronze medal Mr. Vitaly Logvin in his opening Fencing Championship Panama 2016 was for the Canadian team beating speech at the Pan American was held in the Hotel "El Panama" with Mexico for 45 - 38. The Men's sword team Senior Championships Panama the use of innovative lighting technology of Venezuela, beat the Cuban Team 2016 on the finals pistes, and live video winning the gold medal with a score of broadcast via web streaming of 42 - 36. The bronze match was fenced quarterfinal, semifinal and final matches between the teams from Brazil and reaching 4,356 views on the continent with victory for the and elsewhere! marking the beginning of Colombians 45-30.

an era of innovation for the CPE. In the Women's team saber, United The American Kelley Hurley beat States, beat the team of Mexico, with a Venezuelan Maria Martinez by a score of score of 45 - 41. The baout for the third 15-10 in the final bout of the individual place and bronze medal was won by Women Sword test to win gold. The third Team of beating Venezuela for place was for Katharine Holmes and 45 - 42. Courtney Hurley (USA). In Men's Individual

Foil, Alexander Massialas (USA) beat On the last day of the team events at this Daniel Gomez (MEX) by a score of 15 - 6. Pan American Senior Fencing Sharing the third place, Miles Chamley- Championships, The Women's Foil and Watson and Race Imboden (USA), on the Men's Sabre tests took place. The first day of competition. Women's Foil Team of the United States, first in the FIE world ranking, beat Canada's, place 22, with a score of 45 - In Men's Sword won the Gold by 25. The bronze was disputed between 15-14 in a memorable encounter the teams from Mexico and Colombia between Yunior Reytor Venet and Jason with victory for the Mexicans by 45-34. Pryor (USA). In the third place Reynier Henriquez Ortiz, also from Cuba and Maxime Brinck-Croteau from Canada. In In the Sabre Men's Team competition, Women's Sabre the American fencer the United States beat the team of Ibtihaj Muhammad beat Mariel Zagunis Argentina, with a score of 45 - 36. The who had to leave the match due to match for the third place and bronze injury. In third place, Paola Pliego (MEX) medal was won by the team of Mexico and María Belén Pérez Maurice (ARG). beating Canada for 45 - 29.

Foil fencers Lee Kiefer and Nicole Ross Thus ended this great event in (USA), won gold and silver respectively preparation for Rio 2016.Thanks to all who Children and Veterans Pan with a score of 15-7, Alanna Goldie and contributed to its success! American Championships 2016 Kelleigh Ryan (CAN), won bronze. Ponce, Puerto Rico. From August 22 to 26. All Invited! NEWSLETTER CPE | ISSUE V.1 - 4 4

BIOMECHANICS and speed, which means efficient may explain that disciplines such as foot work, good timing and tempo, or artistic and rhythmic gymnastics are of change of pace, creating a solid the first to sell all their seats in the foundation for a highly technical, Olympic Games. Interestingly, experts Technical tactical and strategic performance. from the Royal Opera House, say that As in any evolutionary process, ballet evolved in at the court fencing has implemented of King Louis XIV as a theatrical Quality and adaptations such as the Efficiency in elimination of the Flèche in saber, for the Combat sake of Evolution of fencing and the Flèche improving the in Sabre . Part II Quality of Fencing, its We have argued about the comprehensibilit relevance of quality in the technical y for the public, performance of actions in fencing, in or the safety of relation to the most common form of athletes, among attack, the lunge, and its implications others reasons. In for combat efficiency and care of the nature, it is trial physical integrity of athletes, which and error that naturally leads us to make some discovers the representation of fencing practiced in considerations about the direction of best adaptations organisms can make the court, although other sources the evolution of fencing, to ensure the survival of the fittest in point to as the stage, hence but ... response to changes in the probably it explains that the basic environment, so that, in the case of positions of ballet are also called first, how should it evolve? second, third and so on. It is also curious that engravings of the seventeenth century of the Leiden School of Fencing show fencers practicing vaulting or traveling on the horse, because it was part of the skills required for chevaliers, giving rise to an integral aspect of modern artistic gymnastics, vault and pommel horse. Evolutionary biology studies the common origin of species to better understand their present and improve their future, so similarly, it would be reasonable to investigate these evolutionary connections between In science are studied complex fencing, deciding whether an fencing, gymnastics and ballet, as in phenomena that depend on many adaptation is kept or discarded, addition to aesthetics, the variables, such as the biochemical implies a certain process of evaluating sociological reasons for audiences to balance in the human body. For this the benefits, or risks eliminated, for choose their preferences among scientists use simplifications in the form which we will try to build assessment these disciplines can be exploited to of mathematical models that reduce criteria. possibly succeed in attracting larger the number of variables to a minimum Let's consider that it has been audiences to fencing and perhaps to make complexity manageable. scientifically proven that a provide guidance for the evolutionary Similarly, in order to simplify our object conservative discipline based on course of the Future of Fencing, of study, it is proposed that the Quality canonical forms, such as classical because often the images in fencing of Fencing is the result of the efficient ballet, evolves towards more vertical are as agile and aesthetic as other preparation and execution of actions, and extended biomechanical from gymnastics and ballet, for the which in turn requires efficient positions in response to aesthetic proposed reasons and not by chance management and control of distance preferences of the audiences, which or mere coincidences. NEWSLETTER CPE | ISSUE V.1 - 4 5

Turner and others have pointed out If we consider that when in that, unlike the lunge, data on Time gymnastics a new exercise is created, The activities of the Royal Court of Louis XIV, the "Sun King" were formally Motion Analysis or TMA, which it is simply added to the code, without codified from the basis of fencing, describe the frequency of the Flèche prohibiting the pre-existing exercises, notably promoting the evolutionary and its success rate has not been perhaps it could be reevaluated the development of artistic gymnastics published. The inference in this regard evolutionary adaptation of the and ballet is that, as the lunge is used to a much prohibition of the Flèche in sabre, as greater degree, sport scientists should many consider it to be the most 1. Daprati D., Losa M., Haggard P., (2009) address this move first before using aesthetic and beautiful movement of A Dance to the Music of Time: resources to better determine and fencing, and beauty, according to Aesthetically-Relevant Changes in Body optimize the biomechanics of the science, has been a key factor in Posture in Performing Art: Blackwell Flèche. And thus, without scientifically evolution by natural selection or Publishing, ISBN: 9781405173643 developed information, the Flèche survival of the fittest. 2. Turner A., James N., Dimitriou L., remains unexplored, forbidden in In this scenario of a hypothetical Greenhalgh A., Jeremy Moody, Fulcher saber and empirically taught in foil return of the Flèche, even living D., Mias E., And Kilduff L. (2014). and epee. Yet, less research is done together with the Flunge, the Determinants of Olympic Fencing on the Flunge, the substitute of Flèche legitimate protection of the Quality of Performance and Implications for in Sabre. Fencing is not affected by the Flèche, Strength and Conditioning Training. With a repertoire that is reduced to and even its use could be limited Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research: National Strength and the lunge, Flèche and flunge in the during a bout to just one single time, Conditioning Association, 28(10)/3001– more frequent attacks, the lack of and always under the principles of Fair 3011 interest in the subject may be Play, protecting the integrity of both explained because scientists expect contenders based on the neatness of 3. Rothenberg D. (2011). Survival of the requirements of the Flèche to be very teaching and technical performance. Beautiful. Art, Science and Evolution. similar to the lunge's, but still, research Bloomsbury Press. is lacking. NEWSLETTER CPE | ISSUE V.1 - 4 6

The Program “From School to the According to FSTOG program, courses Olympic Games” continues its for the development of Local Gallery of the inexorable path toward mass diffusion Referees will be scheduled to begin in of knowledge of fencing throughout September, showing the high level of Pan American the continent, and with the collaboration and organization that collaboration of the National characterizes this program. Senior Federations, currently the schedule of activities is designed to start work of Championships this program under the auspices of 2016 the CPE. News

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