Message from Fencing WA

Happy new year and welcome to Fencing in Western Australia for 2014. This is just a quick note to remind you of some important fencing and competition related items of note:

1. Please remember to pay your affiliation fees using SportingPulse. To do so, visit our new web page at http://www.fencingwa.com/ and click on the Payment button in the top right. Any problems, please e-mail me at wafaweb@yahoo.com.

Note that all fencers should AFFILIATE ($30) to (a) be part of the FencingWA community, and (b) ensure that they are covered by the appropriate insurance, (c) participate in any FencingWA activities (including U13 events).

Those fencers who either (a) are competing in under 15 events or above in WA, or (b) wish to participate in any national event, should also pay their CAPITATION fee (which covers AFF Capitation).

2. Please note that a fee will be charged for competition entries this year, with the funds going back into raising the standards of competition and refereeing. The fee will be $5 per event for entries received on time (ie. by the Monday before competition) and $10 for entries made up to the Friday before the event. A late fee of $20 per event will be charged if competitors turn up on the day that have not entered properly. We are investigating alternative entry procedures, but until an alternative mechanism is confirmed, payments can be made using the usual SportingPulse payment portal. A confirmation e-mail should be sent using the competition registry page found under the competitions menu at http://www.fencingwa.com/

3. Please note that weapons testing will continue to apply in 2014. Non-compliant weapons (weight, gauge or overall functionality or safety) will not be allowed to be used in competition.

4. For all U13 foil and epee competitions FencingWA policy is that size 2 weapons should be used (there is some scope to use size 3 if provided by a club, to accommodate the transition but please do not purchase a size 3 weapon as this may not be acceptable in future).

5. Please check the FencingWA competition rule book which should be available at http://www.fencingwa.com/#!downloads/c1xvs in the downloads section. Other FencingWA policies can also be found at this location.

6. Please also note that the FIE rules have been updated and are available from http://britishfencing.com/uploads/files/book_t_jan_2014.pdf.

7. Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/fencingwa/) and Twitter (@FencingWA)

8. Finally, we need volunteers. In particular, the Association needs a secretary and/or someone to help with communications. This is an extremely important and rewarding job and is at the heart of what we do. If you are interested in helping out in this, or any, capacity, please contact me on wafaweb@yahoo.com

Kind regards,

Ben Peden

President, FencingWA

Peter Harbin - Seniors news

Handicap Competition Final Results - 2013

1st Gino Trichlio, 2nd Daniel Schultz, 3rd Alex Boujos



1st Antonio Ruffo 2nd Elim Wong =3rd Michael Macrae and Ivy Park

1st Keiran Thompson, 2nd Malcolm Davies, 3rd Damien Kneale

End of Year Island Party; Penguin Island! Social Event‏

Our last social event of the Year will be the Penguin Island Party/Picnic
Details are as follows: could you please foward email to everyone at Cav's. Family's are welcome to come along; penguin feeding for kids etc, Some beach soccer and games and lots of swimming and sunbaking!!

Date for the event: 15 of December 2013 (May be subject to change depending on confirmation with booking client)

RSVP BY: 2nd of December 2013 (May be subject to change depending on confirmation with booking client)

Prices are                                   Adults     Concession†       Child*
Ferry and penguin feeding:           $22          $19.50              $17.50

Ferry only: $14 
Ferry departs rockingham at 10AM please dont be late! Penguin feeding is 10:30 and 12:30.
FERRY DEPARTURE POINT:
located on the corner of Arcadia Drive
and Penguin Road, Shoalwater (45 minutes south of Perth).
 
PLEASE BRING: Water, Picnic blanket/seats, picnic food(NO BBQ), towel, bathers, snorkling gear/goggles, heaps of sunscreen and if you like fishing rod! 
I hope lots of Cav's members can make it! 
I will do a shout out during announcements on Saturday!
Can you make sure everyone RSVP's to either you or myself!

Handicap Competition Oct 2013

Sabre - 1st Grace Rosario, 2nd Damian Kneale, 3rd Sam Marcus

Foil - 1st Dylan Devenish, 2nd Yen-Sen Lee, = 3rd Antonio Ruffo & Andrew Munro

Epee - 1st Peter Harbin, 2nd Leon Brownrigg, 3rd Stuart Webster

November Update

Cavaliers AGM

Saturday 16th November 3.30-4.30 followed by BBQ

Please ensure pistes are packed up and cabinets away by 3.30 so we can start the meeting on time
All committee positions are up for grabs
Please get involved with the commitiee to help steer the direction of Cavalier now and into the future
Cavaliers has been around for nearly 60 years and only with the help of new and committed committee members can we be around for 60 more

Activity Day #3 2nd & 3rd Nov at UWA

2013 WAFA Awards Presentation and Social Evening