As has become our tradition, our final night of fencing training this year (Thursday 17th Dec) will be replaced by a social night out at the Atholl Arms in Renfield Street.
The pub serves a selection of meals and drinks. We might even talk about fencing too.
A small band of regular (and irregular) visitors to GWEFC went to the Highland Open 2015. This tournament is now growing again – this year's entry including some Spannish visitors from the C. E. Madrid club.
It was great to see so many of our new beginners back for training last week.
If you want to join them, come along any Thursday evening – it is an ideal time to join, even if you didn't manage to attend our Beginners Night, it is great to have a group of people learning together.
Give us a couple of hours and we will have you fighting with swords.
We will be holding a Beginner's Introduction to Fencing night on Thursday 10th September starting at 7pm in Cally Uni ARC Building. The training will run from 7 until 9pm. There will be someone at reception to direct you to the right hall.
There is no charge for beginners attending for the first time.
Cally Uni need the main hall for an all day event on 20th Aug, so we won't have any training that evening.
The first Glasgow Master-at-Arms tournament was held at Caledonian University on Saturday 18th July. In this event, all competitors must fence all 3 weapons in a single day. This was a challenge for the fencers and the organisers.
The overall Master-at-Arms were Alexandre Arbelet (Salle Holyrood) and Marianna Lanza (University of St Andrews).
As in previous years, a party from the West went down to Carlisle on mission to bring back some booty. Good humoured competition and excellent pie were had, and a reasonable haul of medals.
The Scottish Intermediates has resurfaced after a being missing for many years. The competition is designed to encourage new fencers into competitions, with entry being limited to those who have yet to win a medal in a Scottish Open.
The event was run by Wallace Fencing Academy at their usual Linlithgow venue and was attended by some members of our club and/or irregular visitors.
Men's Epee
Women's Epee
After an exciting weekend of fencing the final ordering came down to the last match, Women's Team Foil between Scotland and England. In the end it was a convicing win 45-29 by the Scottish team of Sheila Anderson, Maria Cabrelli and Helen Pitt.
The final results of the team competition being
Results from our club members competing at the Glasgow Open
