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9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 1 British Fencing October 2010 £5.00 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 2 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 3 BritishFencing October2010 £5.00 New Series No.101 October 2010 Front Cover: Chris Cook celebrates winning his first British foil championship (photo: Graham Morrison) FENCING NEWS 5 BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS 10 Malcolm Fare reports on the senior British championships British Fencing CHANGE4LIFE FENCING CLUBS 14 1BaronʼsGate, 33 Rothschild Road, Norman Randall explains the potential of the Change4Life initiative London W4 5HT,Tel: 0208 742 3032, Fax: 0208 742 3033. Website: http//www.BritishFencing.com FENCING FOR THE DISABLED 17 e-mail: [email protected] Peter Gallop describes the work done by John Croxon to bring fencing to the President: Keith Smith disabled Chief Executive: Piers Martin KRUSE WINS SINGAPORE MASTERS 18 How our top foilist won the first Z1 Pro-Fencing championship Editor: MalcolmFare Pyndar Lodge,HanleySwan, LONG-TERM ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT21 Worcs WR8 0DN Jonathan Rhodes describes how Robert Harnish used Long-Term Athlete Tel: 01684 311197 Development to turn Elizabeth College Guernsey into the best Public Schools’ Fax: 01684 311250 fencing club in Britain email: [email protected] REVIEW 23 Print and Layout: Peter Huggins on The Care and Feeding of All Things Fencing by Michael Mergens Warwick Printing Co Ltd Caswell Road, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. 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RESULTS 34 Views expressed in The Sword do not necessarily reflect those of British Fencing. No part of the magazine may Next deadline: 23 NOVEMBER be reproduced without permission from the editor/photographer. British Fencing The SWORD 3 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 4 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 5 Fencing News AGM Theresolution waspassed unanimously.Keith Smith announced the following honours: British Fencing’sAGM washeld at short notice on 7August Silver medal: Richard Cohen, Rodney Francis. in Bristol. TheBoard put forward aspecial resolution to Bronze Medal: Sue Benney,John Harding, John Haynes, amend the Articles of Association as follows: Andy Makuciewz (posthumously), MikeNorfolk, Pat That Clauses 1.4 and 1.14 be deleted. Pearson, Peter Stewart. AwardofMerit: Johnny Davis,Maggie Maynard, Helen That the words “Administrative Directors” be replaced McNab. with the words “President and Treasurer”. Tankard: Laurence Halsted, Jane Hutchison, Richard That all references within the Articles to “chairman” be Kruse,,C Cadetadet Men’ssF Fooilil Team, AAmymy Radford, AAlexlex Tofalides. replaced with the word “chair”. That the words “(with the exception of the chair of the board appointed in accordance with Article 61, who need not be aMember.)” be inserted after the word “Member”. That Article 49 be replaced with the words “The Directors may, at any time, and from time to time, appoint up to two Additional Directors if they consider such appointments to be in the best interests of the Association. Any Additional Director so appointed (with the exception of the chair of the Association) shall retire from office at the conclusion of the next following annual general meeting of the Association but shall then be eligible for re-appointment. At the first meeting of the Directors following any election of Directors, the Directors shall consider whether the characteristics of the Directors reflect the characteristics of the membership. Should the Directors, in their absolute discretion, decide that this is not the case, they may actively recruit up to one Additional Director to address any under-representation of any particular group of Members sharing acharacteristic. In this Article, characteristic means of any sex, age, race, religion or belief, sexual preference or any other characteristic that is Richard Cohen defined as a‘protected characteristic’ under the Equality Act 2010 as amended from time to time.” That Article 56 be replaced with the words “Each Director shall be elected to office for aterm of four years and, with effect from the Annual General Meeting of the Association in 2010, no Director shall be elected for more than two consecutive terms and shall be prohibited from standing for election for athird consecutive term.” That Article 61 be replaced with the words “The Directors shall appoint achair of the Association on such terms as they see fit. In addition, the chair of the Association shall unless unable or unwilling chair all meetings of the Directors. The chair need not be one of their number and, if not, shall be appointed as an Additional Director in accordance with these Articles.” That Articles 68 and 85 to 87 inclusive be deleted. That the words “Administrative Directors” in article 69 be replaced with the word “Directors”. That the word “President” in Article 93 be replaced with the words “the chair (as appointed in accordance with Article 61)”. Rodney Francis The SWORD 5 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 6 John Haynes John Fencing News Harding Mike Norfolk, who was awarded the MBE in the Alex Makuciewz accepts his father’s posthumous Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to healthcare bronze medal from Penny Spink and to fencing in Chester and Wrexham EPEE CLUB APPEAL offspring, fencers wanting to trade in the usual abuse from beginners, equipment no longer used, collectors including being thrown around, Having provided£4000 to help Jon of memorabilia and dealers seeking a pulled through the sleeve of the Willis return to competitive epee market for old fencing items they jacket when the fencer is finished fencing –heiscurrently training in come across. with it and being yanked out of the Heidenheim –and funding for Jenny weapon after use.Although the parts McGeever and Corinna Lawrence,the Anyone who has tried to find don’t seem to have the quality of the Epee Club needs to replenish its coffers something on ebay by keying in the wires from Leon Paul, it is perfectly to continue offering sponsorship to word ‘Fencing’ will know how many good for occasional users.Available promising epeeists.Its success rate in thousands of non-fencing items pop only in blue,itisagood piece of kit turning talented epeeists into up from electric fence posts to cast for arock-bottom price.Rating: 7out successful competitors is iron gates to fencing pliers.Now for of 10. considerable,but the Club now seeks the first time there is awebsite just contributions to continue giving for the sport of fencing – epeeists an independent source of www.fencinggear.co.uk.Whether it Swordpricefighter funding. will reach enough potential buyers TeachingSabre and sellers remains to be seen. Anyone prepared to help is invited to Iamnot quite sure why this is listed send acheque payable to Epee Club as ateaching sabre; it is simply a to the treasurer,Andrew Brannon, 22 basic steam sabre.Costing just £18, Elm Bank Gardens,London SW13 0NT. this is agood item for abeginner.Itis EQUIPMENT REVIEWS robust and cheap and will suffer a reasonable amount of abuse.The NEW AUCTION SITE Swordpricefighter Epee balance is not quite right, but it is Wire more than usable.Acouple of the An auction website devoted exclusively children from our Dover club have to our sport has been launched. To get an epee wire for just £5 is used these sabres every week for Fencing Gear is aimed at everyone simply amazing, since most makers over ayear and they are still on their involved in fencing –suppliers wanting charge over three times this.The wire first blades.Rating: 8out of 10. ■ to sell new equipment, parents has been used at our Canterbury club seeking second-hand kit for growing for over amonth and has suffered all Chris Burwash The 6 SWORD 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 7 9700 SWORD OCTOBER USE!:April Issue 8/10/10 05:53 Page 8 Fencing News SENIOR EUROPEAN GB-HOSTED Trust. Ihope that the YSTwill be able CHAMPIONSHIPS INTERNATIONAL EVENTS to organise this event in the future as Our men’sfoil team made history by In December we will be hosting the it has done so much to promote winning the bronze medal at the Senior Eden Cup,one of the eight FIE Junior youth sport. My very public thanks to European Championships in Leipzig. World Cups.The following day the Sue Campbell for all her untiring We have not won aEuropean or world Leon Paul Foil International will be efforts with this event. team medal at senior level since held.This is an FIE satellite competition 1965 in men’sepee at the Paris world and also part of the new European championships.The team of Richard under-23 circuit. Iamalso pleased GB VJAPAN Kruse,Laurence Halsted, Ed Jefferies that the Manchester Cadet Foil TheGreat Britain men’sfoil team will and Marcus Mepstead defeated International and the Camden Cadet be fencing Japan on Friday 22nd Hungary,then Germany,lost to Russia Sabre International are part of the October at the Lansdowne Club.This in the semi-finals and beat Poland for European cadet circuit and wish is another match in aseries that has the bronze medal.This team result was Ronald Velden and Natalia Kiss every been very successful.