ausfencing.org (Free subscription) | 03/27/2009
The Australian Fencing Federation (AFF) has today received advice from the Australian Olympic Committee of the recent passing of Australian Olympian, Mr Roderick Steele. Roderick Steele was a member of the Australian Men's Foil Team at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. The AFF expresses it sincere condolences to the Steele family and thanks the NSW Olympic Council for their offer of the Olympic Flag...
ausfencing.org (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
The following information is relevant to AFF National Tournaments for 2009. Please draw these matters to the urgent attention of your local Fencing community. Foil Mask - Conductive Bib Requirement The AFF Executive has quite recently become aware of an emerging proposal of the FIE Semi Commission to possibly require the homologation of the "retro bib" to existing foil masks. Such a proposal...
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
CARDIFF epeeist James Taylor has been named Welsh fencer of the year.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
When my daughter's fencing coach moved to Seattle, I was beside myself. How, I worried, could she explain on her college applications why she stopped fencing senior year?
Free lyrics (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
Polly Darton by a country fence, looking over 13 carrots, laid out in a row) Polly Da
Coffee Muses (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
The Weather For the past few days the weather has been beautiful. Every day between 10am and 11am the outside temperature has risen above the inside temperature. With great pleasure I have flung open the doors of the house to enjoy one of the two small periods of the year where the weather is comparable to [...]
Merced Sun-Star.com -- Local (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
An inmate at the John Latorraca Correctional Center may be looking at more time behind bars after Merced County Sheriff's Department investigators said discovery of his handiwork foiled an escape plot.
Blade Watch (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
IBM DeveloperWorks blog IBM Leadership Benchmark Results and the Art of Fencing Sometimes you eventually get to the place you wanted to go, but not exactly in the way you expected. And that’s what I think happened this morning. You see, earlier today somebody in Brazil, wanting to find out more about IBM System x performance, happened to [...]
Tales of the Rampant Coyote (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
This week, in my fencing class, our instructor handed us sabers. Up until this point, we'd only been using foils. We spent a half hour or so going over some attacks and parries, and then he had us fencing and judging each other. Incidentally, I'm bad at both. I vaguely remember fencing with sabers before, years ago, in a similar one-evening-only experience. The biggest difference between using foils...
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
NEARLY 600 of the country’s top fencers were in action in Cardiff last weekend for the Welsh Open competition, one of the main events in the British fencing calendar.
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Rattled by the growing infiltration bids and ceasefire violations, the BSF has decided to remove the 170-km bund (embankment) along the international border
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
SINGAPORE: South Korean Nam Hyun Hee is the first woman from her country to win an Olympic medal in fencing. She's now in Singapore, to share her experience with budding athletes.
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
There have been 237 reported pit bull attacks this year in Indianapolis. Few have been as horrific as what happened this week in a back alley on the Eastside.
Tales of the Rampant Coyote (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
I discovered while fencing last night that my knee doesn't like my trying to bend it the opposite direction. As I came down badly on a failed lunge, I dropped my foil and collapsed to the floor, but fortunately the damage was minimal and I was able to leave under my own steam. I'm limping around a bit, and I'll no doubt be feeling it in the morning, but it looks like a minor injury. I guess you could...
icWales (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
THE best of British fencing gathers in Cardiff this weekend for the 38th annual Welsh Open tournament.
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