CFFA update for May 8 | Cape Fear Fencing Association

If you haven’t already, please update me about the ballet for those who had already expressed an interest. They want to know the number of chaperones as well. I am still trying to get a timing from them for what they want. I’ll bring a DVD to show what I am thinking of Tuesday night. If someone at Lejeune can bring a DVD player I will bring it there as well.

Two updates for equipment from Kathy Walters, good and bad. First, the bad. If you fence foil or sabre, you will need to have straight white or transparent head cords for next season. The curled ones will be okay for our practice, but not sanctioned competitions. The good is for epeeists. You can now put your wires back through the holes when attaching them to the socket, effective immediately.

We had four fencers at Divisionals. Nicole Milewski took the silver in Y-14 women’s epee and qualifies for Nationals. Oliver Galbraith won the Men’s foil, qualifying for Div. II. Erica Julien qualified for the Vet’s women’s epee. Robert Thomas qualified for Div III epee and Vet’s epee. Congratulations to all.

Practice should be regular on Tuesday and Thursday. Homeschool practice on Wednesday. Afterschool and Camp Lejeune per regular.

Apex
is holding a bunch of unsanctioned events on May 14th. Open women’s
foil and epee, open mixed foil and epee, Y-10 mixed foil, and Y-12 mixed
foil and epee. These are unsanctioned, so all you need is the standard
non-competitive USA Fencing membership. A really good event for those
looking to move up from our youth events or early career older fencers
looking for a less intense competition.

May

14th is also the Skirmish at Jack’s Island at New Bern. This is an
epee only outdoor event. This year it will be held at the church in New
Bern regardless of the weather; outdoors if nice, running inside if
rainy. As and Bs get to fence for free, so it should be a strong
event. Right now it needs an A to be an A
event. New Bern always provides a really good free lunch after/during
the event. I am going up in some capacity if anyone needs a ride.

May
21st will be our last youth event of the year and the swords will be
awarded. Foil at 10 am, sabre at 1:30 pm, and epee at 3:30 pm.

Charlotte is having an adult epee event that day. It has some As and Bs and could become a well rated tournament.

Spotsylvania,
Virginia, is doing a Vet event that day. Epee will be an A, foil a C,
and sabre as yet unclear. Erica Julien and Erik Graf are signed up so
with a few more vets we could be a presence.

Our

next event is the Stab-a-thon on May 28th. Open foil, open epee, and
an E and under sabre. Get signed up. It is the Memorial day weekend
and we can attract people looking for some time at the beach if it looks
like we will have a good event. Epee sign ups are solid, but our foil
and sabre fencers need to get signed up. At this point it will pretty
much be you fencing yourselves unless we can get some more foilists and
sabrists involved.

pax vobiscum,

Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon

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