CFFA update for December 30

The USFA has put out a call for volunteers to help with the NAC in Charlotte.  Here is the webpage:  USA Fencing 2019 January NAC Volunteers

What they are looking for is help with Registration, camera operators (the big ones that they use in semis and finals), and the wheelchair fencing.  The trade off is that you get free entry into the event.  Remember they are now charging for entry at National events if you are not a fencer, official, etc.

I know a number of you are planning on going to
Charlotte, so there will be practice, Wednesday 1/2, and Thursday 1/3. 

On
New Year’s Day, Tuesday 1/1, Research Triangle Fencing is holding an
event.  Mixed foil and Sabre.   The Mixed sabre
looks like it should become an A event.  Of course, you will have to get
past Duke’s sabre coach to win.  The youth events look to have been cancelled.

January
5 is also another homeschool meet in Winston Salem at the Star of Bethlehem Church.  I may not be there
for any/all of
it due to the conflict with the NAC.  If Nicole and Erica finish early I
will try to make it there for at least some of the day.  I will send out a note to help plan for who is going and getting everyone everything they need.

No afterschool on Monday January 7th as I will probably still be in Charlotte.

The
new evening class will start on Tuesday, January 8th, at 6:30 pm.  The
new class at Topsail Middle school will start on Friday, January 11th. 
Camp Lejeune will also get started back up on that Friday with a new beginner class.

January
12 is the next NCFL meet.  I am not certain as to where yet, but it may
be Chapel Hill.  It will be the final regular season team meet.

Also
on that weekend is a foil and epee RYC in Apex.  The events are Y-10,
Y-12, and Y-14.  Registration at the regular price has ended.  It looks
like Amelia and Jackson are fencing on the 13th, so I will be up for
that.

For adults, there is the Hangover in Richmond that weekend.  The last date to enter before the Triple fees kick in is the 6th.  Right now it looks small, but it is hard to tell with entries only being accepted through askfred.

Also on the 13th is Mid-South’s first set of Youth events for 2019.  Check askfred for particulars.

January 19th is a homeschool meet at our club.  Looking at a 10 am start time.

Our
first event of 2019 will be the Old Man Winter on January 26th.  Open
foil, open epee, and Vet epee.  IMPORTANT!!  We are going to start
requiring that
people are registered a week before the event to get the regular
pricing.  We have been unable to gauge the size of events in a manner
that lets us hire the correct number of referees.  If we expect a large
crowd that doesn’t materialize the club loses money.  If we wait and
things pop a day or two before the event, it can be hard to find any
local referees.  Then some of our fencers have to drop out to help
referee.  Anyone registering after the deadline will be charged $10
extra per event, so that will hopefully be the incentive for people to
get signed up earlier.  Read the More Information section on askfred to
get the full information.  Right now the Mixed epee should become at
least a B, the Mixed foil is smaller than it should be, and the Vet epee is at 6 people, also smaller than it should be.  Remember that Vet events can be rated if we get enough people.

The February 2nd homeschool meet has been moved to the 16th, so I will be up to the Capitol Clash. 

The Capitol Clash organizers may think the numbers were a bit low, so they have extended the entry date until January 5th. A couple more of our Vet fencers and a number of those events would get higher ratings, or these would be good events for you to attend to get the feeling of a more regional event.  Here is whom I see as entered.  If you are entered and I missed, let me know.  Friday – nobody  If you are entered on Friday, definitely let me know as it will have an impact upon Topsail and Lejeune on that date.  Saturday:  8 am Nicole Y-14 WE should be an A-2; 9 am Herman VME looks to be an A; 9 am Christi and Erica VWE, needs bodies to be a B or C; 12:30 pm Jackson Y-10 MF; 1:30 pm Y14 WF, could be a B2; 1:30 pm Kim VMS, a B2; 1:30 pm Erica VWS with 9 entries; and Will 2 pm CME an A2.  There will also be Vet foil with the women being a B1 and the men needing bodies to get past an E rating.  Sunday:  8 am Will Cadet MF, an A2; 8 am Amelia Y12 WF, a C2; and 12:30 pm Nicole Cadet WE, a C2.

pax vobiscum,