Monthly Archives: July 2011

Some New Fencing Links

July 30, 2011
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Some New Fencing Links

I have added some new links to the side bar.  We have two new weapon specific Irish fencing blogs:- Splitting Time describes itself as “The first review of Ireland’s Sabre season” and provides the most up to date and in depth reportage on, well, sabre fencing competitions that feature Irish Sabreurs. Counter Time is...

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Falling Down

July 21, 2011
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Falling Down

“Falling Man” © Copyright Simon Palmer and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. I don’t know what got into me tonight but I fell twice in a course of a five point bout.  As Wilde said, once may be an accident, but twice is carelessness.  I’m still not sure how it happened, ...

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Summer League Update

July 17, 2011
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I was away on holidays for a couple of weeks, attending amongst other things a performance of the entire of Wagner’s Ring Cycle – more on that in another post.  I dropped into the club on Tuesday when I returned thinking it was the last night of fencing to discover that our summer league...

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Modern Pentathalon Makes Paper

July 12, 2011
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Modern Pentathalon Makes Paper

Great spread in the Irish Times on Natalya Coyle pentathlete and one of our Olympic hopefuls, who trains occassionaly at our club. I love the idea of the modern pentathalon; running, swimming, riding, fencing and shooting. Obviously, I fence, and I do run a bit. In my schooldays I was a handy fencer and...

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