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1111 the SWORD JULY13.Indd 20 25/06/2013 06:38 Round-Up July 2013 £5.00 The SWORD 1 July 2013 £5.00 July 2013 The SWORD 1 Front Cover: Britain’s men’s foil team won bronze at the junior European championships in Budapest. From left: George Bailey, Kristjan Archer, Alex Tofalides and Amol Rattan with their coach Pierre Harper (photo: Pat Aiyenuro) FENCING NEWS 5 JUST A MINUTE 9 Michael Clarke and Jon Rhodes look at the impact coaches can have during the crucial one-minute breaks in DE fi ghts 1 Baron’s Gate, 33 Rothschild Road, London W4 5HT, Tel: 0208 742 3032, Fax: 0208 742 3033. THE PLAY’S THE THING – 13 Website: http//www.BritishFencing.com An Interview with the Prince of Denmark HPDLOKHDGRIÀFH#EULWLVKIHQFLQJFRP Richard Cohen talks to Jonathan Slinger who plays Hamlet in a Chief Executive: Peter King Chairman: David Teasdale fencing-focussed production from the Royal Shakespeare Company Editor: Malcolm Fare Pyndar Lodge, Hanley Swan, DISSECTING THE EPEE LUNGE 17 Worcs WR8 0DN Tel: 01684 311197 Lindsay Bottoms and Jonathan Sinclair report on recent studies of Fax: 01684 311250 the lunge at epee (PDLOPDOFROPIDUH#FURVVZRUGGHPRQFRXN Print and Layout: :DUZLFN3ULQWLQJ&R/WG EARLY FENCING PHOTOGRAPHS 18 Caswell Road, Leamington Spa, :DUZLFNVKLUH&94' Malcolm Fare looks at some of the fi rst fencing photos Tel: 01926 883355 (PDLOVDOHV#ZDUZLFNSULQWLQJFRXN ROUND-UP 20 Advertising: BFA Tel: 0208 742 3032 Vets European championships, Chichester Open (PDLOKHDGRIÀFH#EULWLVKIHQFLQJFRP British Fencing accepts no responsibility for the contents of advertisements and YOUNG FENCER 23 reserves the right to refuse inclusion. Junior World Championships, Newham, British Youth Championships The Sword, a quarterly magazine founded in 1948, is distributed to all individual and club members of British )HQFLQJDQGLWVDIÀOLDWHV,WFDQDOVREH RESULTS 26 obtained on subscription – UK £20 2YHUVHDVDLUPDLO ²GLUHFWIURP+4 Contributions are welcome. Photographs should include the names of those pictured and the photographer. 9LHZVH[SUHVVHGLQ7KH6ZRUGGRQRW QHFHVVDULO\UHÁHFWWKRVHRI%ULWLVK Next deadline: 26 August Fencing. No part of the magazine may be reproduced without permission from The the editor/photographer. SWORD 3 The 4 SWORD Fencing News Message From The Chair ince my last message in The Sword, I’ve met a wide recruiting and training more and better coaches, referees, range of members at Roadshows and events, in administrators; helping the club network to provide great SScotland, Wales and England. I have Ireland, the Isle customer service and thus expand; putting in place a of Man and other places to come. If you have a venue really effective talent pathway; developing and honing the or club you would like to be involved in the Roadshow reserves of talent we have, at all ages. programme, please do let me know. As usual the contact details are at the end here. This major challenge will require strong effective leadership. With eight new Board Directors elected by you, the members The Roadshows are a very simple concept. Basically it’s (out of 18 who stood for election), the Board is working hard me, as your Chair, turning up at a venue or event to chat to rebuild trust and start delivering the changes necessary to a group of members, or do a series of one-to-one to meet our goals. I was very pleased that the members encounters. The aim is to exchange views and news. I can gave such a clear sign of trust at the recent May General update members on the new Board, on Green, Grow and Meeting (GM), where the Board’s two resolutions received Gold, on the 2024 goals, etc, whatever people want to ask overwhelming support. about. Mostly I just listen to members’ opinions, needs, experience. The insights I get are invaluable; essential is I can tell you, working with this new Board is a demanding a better word. There is always passion – thank goodness! pleasure. Why? There is a new focus on service and results; Often, I fi nd misunderstandings, and it’s good to clear a clear determination to make a difference; there is a team those up. Always, I get very good advice. It’s usually polite! ethic; and there is bags of knowledge about fencing and the fencing community and a deep love of the sport. Let’s give one example. At the Camden club recently, several parents got me in a corner on the future for their children – So, to achieve change, to move fast forward, British especially those who are epee fencers. They asked me, what Fencing can claim to have some building blocks in place. chance do they have, with all the emphasis on foil? I respect First and foremost is the new Board. Second is improved the question. Because the downside for any sport working governance, thanks to the GM decisions and the hard with UK Sport, with its well known ‘no compromise’ work already, driven by John Troiano and his new Audit approach, is that there is no easy way to get funding support Governance & Risk Committee. Third is the quiet revolution where we can’t demonstrate world class achievement or in Head Offi ce administration being put in place by Peter potential. So your Chair and Board have to accept that the King, an experienced and effective sporting CEO who world class programme must be foil led for the short term knows how to lay foundations for success. Fourth is the – that is the only way to attract that UK Sport funding, commitment and ability throughout the sport. advice and support which is critical to our Gold ambitions. But we need more clear steps forward – for example, What I make clear in such discussions is the Board’s policy we have to secure the further three years of funding and and direction. We are a six-weapon sport. There is no support from Sport England and UK Sport; the decisions BF compromise on that fact. So, we must work hard at come in December. We need to get our Coaching and developing all our athletes, young and mature, in epee and Refereeing Committees up and running effectively. We sabre as well as foil. We don’t yet have enough funding have to make the new Talent Pathway work. We must keep – but, we are not for turning. As an immediate example, enhancing the coaching and other support for our Podium the Board is launching soon a new BF Fund that will give Potential athletes. We have to improve the membership practical support to young fencers, male and female, epee, scheme. The whole fencing community has to get involved. sabre or foil. The list is long. Do keep writing or calling me with your items for the ‘must do better’ list. Your Wherever I go, I talk always about our 2024 goals. I’m glad BF Board is listening – with care and to say, these broadly have been well received by members. determination. You all recognise that the goals are very ambitious. We don’t have the track record to aspire to be the world’s leading fencing nation, or to be considered Britain’s best National Governing Body, or to have 50,000 members. But members have said to me – why not? Generally, there is backing for our setting hard targets for British Fencing. David Teasdale What’s clear is that achieving any one of the goals will Chair, British Fencing require a major effort. It demands change. It will depend Tel: 07803 891623 upon fi nding new ways to present and sell our sport; [email protected] The SWORD 5 Fencing News As part of a programme to produce a continuous stream of WORLD CLASS PROGRAMME talented youngsters across all six weapons, Joanna Wray For the next four-year cycle, to the Rio Olympic Games, UK has been appointed as Head of Pathway Development. Sport (UKS) has increased the overall funding for fencing She has degrees in sport and exercise psychology and from £2,529,335 (2009-13) to £3,082,800 (2013-17). previously worked for Taekwondo GB, leading the development of the National Academy. For the first year (1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014), 12 ‘podium potential’ places have been allocated to British Fencing To further support the Board ambitions to become a under the World Class Programme (WCP). Funding for the leading fencing nation by 2024, Pat Aiyenuro and Jon Willis remaining three years will depend on UKS’s autumn review, have been appointed as voluntary weapon managers to which will consider whether the sport has demonstrated work closely alongside the WCP and provide support to improvements in its governance and implemented a non-funded weapons; they will be responsible for putting performance system. This year funding is focused on men’s together a training and competition programme of activity. and women’s foil and women’s epee. Initially seven places were allocated to the following: James Davis, Richard Kruse, Rhys Melia, Marcus Mepstead, Husayn Rosowsky, NEW RULES Natalia Sheppard and Corinna Lawrence. These fencers are operating within a pseudo-podium programme in 1. Sabre Gloves centralised training in Lee valley. In addition another five Because of a number of injuries in both Britain and abroad men foilists have been nominated as part of a podium caused by sabre blades, unbroken as well as broken, potential squad. They are: Acland Bryant, Jamie Fitzgerald, penetrating the glove, the FIE is making a new specification Tom Hendrie, Amol Rattan and Alex Tofalides. In addition glove mandatory for its competitions from 1st September Kristjan Archer has been included as part of the programme, 2013. This new glove has to provide a minimum protection although from August he will be training and studying in of 800 Newtons, using the specified testing regime, on all the USA.
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