End of 2009

Well, that's it folks. The fencing season has come to an end for 2009.

Thank you all for your participation and help during the year. I trust everyone has enjoyed their time at Cavs.

On behalf of the Cavs Committe, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Make sure you keep an eye on the Cavs website over the summer for the latest news for the coming fencing season. We have a lot in store for 2010.

Take care and we'll see you in February.

Parents vs Bladez - The Battle of 2009

Come one, come all to the epic battle that will determine who reigns supreme....

Parents vs Bladez - The Battle of 2009

When: Saturday 12th December, 2009 from 1:15pm
(please arrive early so we can start on time)

Where: ECU Gymnasium, Mt Lawley

Who: All Bladez parents, aunties, uncles, cousins, brothers and sisters.

How: We'll give all new-comers the basics of fencing,
then have "line games" to settle the score!

Light refreshments will be provided.

iFencing with FencingRef

There's a new app available for iPod/iPhone called FencingRef, and after seeing it for the first time in Perth last week, I decided to buy it and write up my own how-to.

Version 1.10 of FencingRef by Jakatai Inc. was tested on Apple iPod touch 2nd generation with OS 3.1.2.

You can choose to keep track of a pool, or just use Fencing Ref for a quick match

You can keep track of a pool that has already started, or start a new one.

You can enter between four and eight fencers in the pool.

Enter their full names.


A pool sheet is created and you can then click Fence to get the bout going.


The application allows you to keep score, keep time, penalise and add extra time.
Once the bout is over, you press Record to record the score on the pool sheet.

To check the order of the fencing, you can click on Bouts

The results are recorded and displayed on the pool sheet.

To get more information, press Scores

The buttons are big so you can't miss them, they are also colour coded red/green for stop/go.
Penalties can be awarded and you can hold the device up as it displays a yellow, red or black card. There is also an option for injury time, and a one minute break is no problem with the touch of a button.

This is a very simple application for iPhone/iPod. It allows the functionality of a full scoring system at the press of a few buttons, without the paperwork. It's a fantastic concept and is suited for general club refereeing or those on the go.

FencingRef is available via the iTunes Store for AUD 2.49

FIE News

At the recent FIE Congress meeting, the FIE executive committee announced that the Men's Team Epee and Women's Team Sabre events will be excluded from the 2012 Olympic Games.

In other votes, the city of Catania, Italy won the bid to host the 2011 senior world championships over Tianjin, China, and Budapest, Hungary. Various proposals that seemed design to add weight to European results were defeated.

The decision to remove Men's Epee and Women's Sabre from the Olympic events for London 2012 follows on the rotation of team events included in the Olympic Games. When women's sabre first became an Olympic event in 2004, the IOC refused to allocate additional medals for the fencing events, so the FIE compromised by agreeing to remove two (team) events with each rotation.

In 2004 Women's Team Sabre and Women's Team Foil were not contested and in 2008 Men's Team Foil and Women's Team Epee sat.

According to one attendee at the Congress, the FIE executive committee attempted to hold off on the announcement of which team events would be excluded until after the 2010 Junior World Championships "so that federation would not abandon budgets and training for this season in the removed weapons." This created quite a stir amongst the members of the Congress, so the FIE finally made the announcement.

Sam Cheris, one of the US delagates to the FIE congress confirmed the team event decision and noted that the proposals to weight points more for European zonals or to eliminate zonals were withdrawn.

Additionally the recent incident regarding the 'visor' mask is still under investigation and as such no additional action was taken by the FIE at the Congress.

3:00pm Close on Saturday December 5th

Please be aware that Cavaliers will be closing early this Saturday the 5th of December at 3:00pm due to gym maintenance.

There will be no formal intermediates class - instead, fencers will be encouraged to set up pistes and arrange bouts between themselves.

You may also want to arrive slightly earlier to ensure you have enough time to fence.

Sorry for the inconvenience, fencing times will return to normal for the remaining sessions in 2009 after the 5th.

Results for AFF #4 - Australian Championships 2009

AFF #4 is the Australian Open and Veteran Fencing Championship
The event was held in Marrickville, NSW between the 27th of November and the 1st of December, 2009.

Congratulations to the following WA fencers!

Open Men's Foil (70 fencers)
Marek Jamrozy =3
Aleksey Danilov 8
Alasdair Dunham 25
Nick Gillooly 33

Open Women's Foil (39 fencers)
Elisabeth Scibiorski 22
Liz Pedler 24

Open Men's Epee (64 fencers)
James Lewis 7
Zen Rawlins 16
Bobby Emmanuel 28
Marek Jamrozy 30

Open Women's Epee (35 fencers)
Sarah Macfarlane 15

Open Men's Sabre (30 fencers)
Sutherlan Scudds 2
Zak Leonhard 12
Aoning Li 22

Open Women's Sabre (20 fencers)
Sarah Macfarlane 15

Open Men's Foil Team
WA came equal 3rd

Open Men's Epee Team
WA came equal 3rd

Open Men's Sabre Team
WA came equal 3rd

Veteran Men's Foil (14 fencers)
Gary Sudran 13

Veteran Men's Epee (18 fencers)
Gary Sudran 11

Veteran Men's Sabre (10 fencers)
Gary Sudran 7


You can view the results in full on the Australian Fencing Events website.