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Newsletter of Fencing NSW February 2014

NSW fencers carved into the medals at the recent Singapore Cadet World Cup.

The all-NSW Men’s Sabre Team of Boston Fawkes, Sean Andrews, Matthew Tadros and Alex Douglas were commanding in taking gold from the home team Singapore - 45-36

NSW girls Beatrice Hay, Alice Heraud and Violet Hull teamed with Queensland’s Alicia Kwag to take silver in a tough match also against Singapore.

And Thea Kable was in the Women’s Epee Team who came home with bronze.

In the individual events, Jesse Morris was the standout performer, achieving a silver medal in a hard fought final with a Singapore fencer. At one stage, Jesse was down 14 - 7 but fought his way back to a final score of 15-13.

The tournament had a great atmosphere and the supporters were really vocal. The final was a bit surreal, I wasn’t really aware of anything until the end of the bout ... very pleased with my result in the end! - Jesse

The other individual medal winner was Alicia Kwag in women’s foil.

The Singapore Cadet World Cup drew fencers from Singapore, Australia, China, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.

Sweet Success in Singapore

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U13 Schools and State Comps Under New BannerThis year, NSWFA will be presenting U13 schools and U13 state competitions under a new banner - the School/State Mini Series.The aim of the Mini Series is to encourage more U13/U11/U9 school fencers to participate in state competitions.

Both schools and state competitions will continue to be run as they are now. The difference is that they will be streamlined in the fencing calendar to run as a series from early May to late November, providing more competition opportunities for school-age fencers.

The incentive for more schools fencers to move across into state competitions is the opportunity to improve their fencing in a more challenging competition, enter more events, earn more ranking points and have a better chance of being selected to represent NSW in the Friendship Cup later in the year.

Participation by school fencers in state competitions will remain voluntary. The state competitions held on Sundays will not be conducted as schools competitions so there will be no additional demands placed on school teachers and coaches.

The Mini Series will culminate in the Koala Challenge/Friendship Cup weekend in November.

The Mini Series is open to U13 fencers who have registered with NSWFA as Junior Registered ($40). The entry fee for each competition is $25.

Entries for the Saturday schools competitions are to be made in the usual way by schools a week before the competition. Entries by individual students who don’t have fencing at their school should also be received a week prior.

Entries for Sunday state competitions are to be made, as usual, by 6pm on the Thursday preceding the competition via the online entry service at www.nswfencing.org.au

The ABC Series for schools beginners that was successfully launched last year will be continued this year.

Please see the website calendar for the Mini Series competition timetable.

Club affiliation dueClubs are reminded that their affiliation with NSWFA is due. Please download the form at

www.nswfencing.org.au/docs/NSWFAClubAffiliation.docx

and remit $100 to NSWFA either by cheque or EFT. Affiliation en-sures that clubs are able to access the national insurance policy arranged by the AFF.

NSWFA to host Uni Games FencingThe annual Australian UniGames (AUG) will be held in Sydney 28 September - 3 October with fencing events to be held at Marrickville. NSWFA will provide equipment, officials and volunteers to ensure the success of the Games.

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U13/U11 Weapon Sizes Clarified

School’s Curtain RaiserThe 2014 schools competitions got underway on the weekend of 21-22 February with 143 competitors from 57 schools competing in the Roberta Nutt Shield at Marrickville, all making for a busy and enjoyable weekend as a curtain raiser to the schools fencing season.

The Roberta Nutt Shield placings were:

Girls: 1. Pymble Ladies College2. Sydney Girls High School3. Abbotsleigh School

Boys: 1. Sydney Grammar School2. Mosman Preparatory School3. St Ignatius College

The U15 foil medallists in the Roberta Nutt Shield:

Back row L to R: Grace Gallur - Abbotsleigh (silver), Rebekah Shiba - William Carey (bronze), Corey Spiteri - Randwick (gold), Matthew Goodson - St Ignatius (silver), Sebastian Davies - Hunters Hill (bronze), Abou Ghaida - Salamah College (bronze)

Front row: Ellie Jordan - Bowral (gold), Caitlyn Trussell - PLC (bronze)

The next schools events are the National Schools Qualifiers on 1 & 15 March - please see the calendar for details.

Referee training programOn Sunday 2 March at Marrickville, NSWFA will present a multi-weapon referee training seminar as part of our program to increase the number of fencers who are competent referees.This session runs from 8.30am to 10.30am and everyone who wants to learn more about how to referee properly is invited.

On the same day, this year’s Level 1 and Level O (community level) coaching courses get underway. If you want to register for these courses, book online now as registrations close 28 February.

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Behaviour at fencing competitionsIt is necessary to remind parents, coaches and other spectators that they must not interfere with the conduct of a bout. In particular, they must not put any pressure on the referee.

At NSWFA competitions, the FIE Rules apply including:

“t.82.3. a) Everybody taking part in or present at a fencing competition must remain orderly and must not disturb the smooth running of the competition. During bouts no one is allowed to go near the pistes, to give advice to the fencers, to criticise the Referee or the judges, to insult them or to attempt to influence them

in any way. Even the team captain must remain in the space assigned to him and he may only intervene in the situations and in the manner provided for in Article t.90 of the Rules. The Ref-eree must stop immediately any activity which disturbs the smooth running of the bout which he is refereeing (cf. t.96.1–3).

b) Any person who, for any reason, threatens or insults an official commits an offence of the 4th group and is penalised according to article t.119” (black card - immediate expulsion from the venue)

In addition to the FIE Rules, the NSWFA Code of Conduct requires all participants at competitions to uphold appropriate standards of sportsmanship.

Breaches of the Code can result in suspension or expulsion from membership of the Association. The Code can be found here: www.nswfencing.org.au/admin_policies.htm

The members of the Directoire Technique and members of the NSWFA Executive will strongly protect referees and take the appropriate action against anyone who criticises or attempts to influence a referee.

All participants in NSW fencing events are urged to visit the Play By The Rules website: www.playbytherules.net.au where lots of good advice on behaviour at sporting competitions can be found.

Media Officer Appointed Meet Laura Goodin who has been appointed Media Officer for NSW Fencing.

Laura (from Bulli Swords Club) has taken on the responsibility of promoting fencing in all forms of media. She is well suited to the task, having previously han-dled media relations for the NSW State Emergency Service.

She’ll work with the Executive and with Clubs to develop me-dia so more people in the community know more about fencing. She’ll be developing a Media Kit which Clubs will find useful in promoting fencing in your local media.

A new Media Policy, developed by Laura in consultation with the NSWFA Executive is on the website.

Laura can be contacted at media@nswfencing.org.au

Competition HandbookNSWFA has prepared a Competition Handbook as a practical guide to fencers and parents about how competitions are run. You’ll find it on the website at www.nswfencing.org.au

Looking ahead ... camp dates for your diary14-16 April

NSWFA ‘YOG’ Development Fencing Camp

22-24 September

NSWFA ‘YOG’ Development Fencing Camp + Junior Nationals Preparation

AFF Regional Epee Camp

Time: 9:00 - 3:30 daily

Venue: PCYC Marrickville

‘YOG’ (Youth Olympic Games) camps are suitable for school and club fencers from U9 - U20 in all weapons. Fencers must have their own equipment.

Registration for ‘YOG’ camps will be through the NSWFA website.

The AFF Regional Epee Camp is suitable for AFT/AFS as well as non-AFT/AFS epee fencers. This program will be run by the AFF’s High Performance Manager, Paul Crook. NSW epee coaches are welcome to attend.

Registration for the Regional Epee Camp will be through AFF on-line registration.

Good Housekeeping

wrappers etc - in the bins provided at Marrickville.

leave your coffee cups on the scoring boxes.

melt, causing a slip hazard.

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More international events beckonYoung NSW fencers will again soon be packing their bags to compete overseas.

2014 Asian Junior & Cadet Fencing Championships Amman, Jordan 7 - 16 March

Women’s Epee

Emily Principe

2014 World Junior & Cadet Fencing Championships Plovdiv, Bulgaria 3 - 12 April

Men’s Sabre Jasper Rowley Matthew Tadros Alex Douglas Boston Fawkes

Women’s Sabre Mathilda Barnard Hannah Biskupic

Women’s Epee Emily Principe

Men’s Foil

Patrick Daley

NSWFA wishes them all every success.

Singapore Cadet World Cup - results for NSW fencersCadet Men’s Foil (46 entries)

Jesse Morris - Silver

Cadet Men’s Sabre (43)

Alex Douglas 6 Boston Fawkes 7 Matthew Tadros 9 Kai Hardge 26 Sean Andrews 28 James Siu 30

Cadet Women’s Foil (24)

Beatrice Hay 8 Alice Heraud 11 Violet Hull 18

Cadet Women Epee (28)

Thea Kable 23

Cadet Men’s Sabre Team

A Team Gold (Boston Fawkes, Sean Andrews, Matthew Tadros & Alex Douglas)

B Team 8 (Jesse Morris, James Siu & Kai Hardge)

Cadet Women’s Foil Team

A Team Silver (Beatrice Hay, Alice Heraud & Violet Hull)

Cadet Women’s Epee Team

A Team Bronze (Thea Kable)

NSW Fencing is supported by:

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Canberra Day fencing event coming up: 8-9 MarchThe annual Canberra Day weekend fencing competition is always an attraction for Sydney-based and regional fencers. You can fence on the weekend and stay for the Canberra Day festivities on Monday 10 March.

This year’s venue is the Tuggeranong Archery Centre in Soward Ave, Tuggeranong. (not the same venue as previous years - about 1km further south). Conductive Bib is not required at Open or Novice Foil. Tracksuit Pants are acceptable for Novice events.

Timetable (close of registration):

Saturday March 8:

8.45am Women’s Open Foil

9.00am Men’s Open Foil

11.00am Women’s Novice Epee

11.15am Men’s Novice Epee

1.00pm Women’s Open Sabre

1.15pm Men’s Open Sabre

Sunday March 9:

8.45am Women’s Open Epee

9.00am Men’s Open Epee

12.45pm Women’s Novice Foil

1.00pm Men’s Novice Foil

1.30pm Novice Sabre

Please register here: https://www.registernow.com.au/secure/Register.aspx?E=11823

Early Bird entry: Up to and including 1 March - All Open events: $25.00 per event

Normal entry: From 2 - 7 March inclusive - All Open events: $40.00 per event

Late entry: 8 - 9 March - All Open events: $50.00 per event

Novice Events: All novice events $25.00 per event

All competitors for Open events must be an Affiliated member of their home State.

For all competitors for the Novice events, membership of their home state is required.

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