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8.5.2010 |
Save on club fees to Dacorum Fencing by paying for the year in full, or by monthly standing order! Dacorum Fencing made another successful visit to Littlecote House. With a similar format to last year, with a demonstration of fencing with all 3 weapons, a brief description and explanation of the action to the guests, and also the opportunity for them to have a go! |
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| 18.07.2009 | ||||
| Dacorum Fencing is available to arrange exhibition / trial sessions for event organisers, companies, clubs and youth organisations who wish to promote health, fitness and mental agility through fencing. Contact Chris King for details. Dacorum Fencing Does Littlecote House! Helen arranged a fencing exhibition / trial session at Littlecote house in the Cotswold borders. This is a fantastic place, so rich with history! We set up our exhibition in the Long Gallery, and showed and explained what fencing is all about. Afterwards, some who were interested got to don some kit and have a free lesson. I'm not sure who enjoyed it most, them or us! There are pictures on the facebook page (see below), but I shall add them to this site in due course. |
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| 10.05.2009 | ||||
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The rest of the term times have been filled into the Courses & Sessions link on the left nav bar. Dacorum Fencing now has a Facebook page: Check this link for up to date information and news about the Club: Dacorum Fencing Facebook Page
Success for Dacorum Buccaneers! Click the Buccaneers link on the left nav bar for further details. Coach Chris King completed the Swimathon 5K Challenge on the 18th April '09. He managed to complete it in an impressive 1hr 43mins, but more importantly raised £350! He would like to express his thanks to all who supported him. Well Done Chris!! Weekend Fencing! Sunday fencing sessions are now being held at Hemel Hempstead Leisure Centre. From 4pm - 5pm, cost £5 per person.
Budding Pentathletes contact Lajos Fazekas at lajos.fazekas@btinternet.com
Community links: Dacorum Fencing has taken part in fencing sessions on behalf of the Saracens Sport Foundation, and is also working with the Spinal Injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital to arrange fencing lessons as part of a sports therapy scheme.
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| 26.08.2008 | ||||
| Taster Days! For those of you who can't quite make up their mind if fencing is for them, we have arranged to have a Taster Day the week before each starter course. So this would be 4th September 2008, and 8th January 2009. These are only £5, and are a great introduction to the sport. | ||||
| 10.05.2008 | ||||
| New Term dates and starter course dates added to the Courses page (link on the left navbar), so get in early to secure your place! The starter courses give you the an excellent introduction to this exiting sport, perfect for the absolute beginner to learn the basics, or as a refresher for someone who's been out of the sport for a while. If you'd like to know more, email Chris king. | ||||
| 03.05.2008 | ||||
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New Club T-Shirt Now Available! |
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The sizes they come in are: |
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If you fancy one of these snazzy new T-Shirts, drop an email to Chris King stating your size. They cost £12 each. |
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Congratulations to Jack and Connor |
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| Well done to Jack (right) and Connor (left) for their result in last weekends (26.04.08) Hertfordshire Individual Novice Novice Championship. They both fought well and brought home a medal each! For full details, click here to read the press release from the Hemel Gazette.
http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/sport/Boys-are-foiled-againbut-only.4033271.jp |
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| 20.01.2008 | ||||
| Another win for Dacorum Novice Fencers
Dacorum fencers took their second straight win in the Herts Novice Foil League this week!
On Thursday 17th January, we won by 45 to 20 against the St.Albans novice team. Jack Parsons, Guy Miscampbell and Connor Sutton fenced well from the beginning, building a comfortable lead. St.Albans mounted a fight back but were eventually overcome by Dacorum. Keep up the good work, and good luck with your next match!! Our thanks go to the St.Albans Fencing Club for making us so welcome and to James Lee, the organiser of the event. Here's the press release in the Hemel Gazette |
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| 19.12.2007 | ||||
| Dacorum Fencing Makes it into the Press!
http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/sport/Fencers-good-start.3567960.jp |
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| 4.12.2007 | ||||
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2007/2008 Herts Novice League |
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| 16.09.2007 | ||||
| Dacorum Fencing Branches out once more!! Our new coach, Lajos, has an unwavering enthusiasm to get more people involved in the exciting sport of fencing. In a bid to bring this healthy, thrilling, competitive sport to even more people, he has started another wing to Dacorum fencing in the form of the Fencing Nursery. |
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It is held at the Grove Hill Youth Centre, Stevenage Rise, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, HP2 6BH. Anyone is welcome, even if you are disabled and wish to take part in wheelchair fencing. If you wish to attend, just drop an email to Chris King and put Fencing Nursery in the subject line. Or you can email Lajos directly at lajos.fazekas@btinternet.com | |||
| 26.08.2007 | ||||
| The Dacorum Fencing Club Picnic was a roaring success! The people numbered in the hundreds, and we all enjoyed blissful sun shine with temperatures soaring to 30C!
Ok, so I might have exaggerated a little. The weather was as British as you would expect, overcast, windy with light showers, but that didn't stop the hardcore of Dacorum Fencing enjoy a spot of lunch alfresco style, accompanied with some Olympic level fencing with foam swords!
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| July 2007 Newsletter is ready to download from... you guessed it, the Downloads page! The link is on the right. | ||||
| 19.04.2007 | ||||
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CONGRATULATIONS RICHARD SUMMERS!! |
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Dacorum does it again! Richard Summons entered the Hertfordshire Novice Championships this year and brought back the age old trophy that has been going from club to club since 1964! He did extraordinarily well, and won by quite a large margin.
Last year Colin managed to get to third, and the year before I was lucky enough to win! So lets hope this is the beginning of a trend! Taking part in competitions outside the club is an excellent way of increasing your ability to fence. Fencing within the club is primarily for practicing and improving your technique, however you will come to know the weaknesses in your opponents, and they will come to know yours. Fencing outside the club helps you to think on your feet, to quickly adapt to your opponent. The experience you gain from competing is invaluable! On top of that, having a goal really helps to focus your training. If you are interested in taking part in any competitions, just ask Chris King for more info. |
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New Year Starter courses! Was your new years resolution to get fit? To learn something new? To make more friends? We have a starter course beginning in the new year specifically for anyone who hasn't fenced before (or very little.) Over eleven weeks we will coach you and prepare you to take your Grade 1 certificate in Foil. All you need to get started is tracksuit bottoms, t-shirt, non-marking trainers, and enthusiasm! We will loan you the equipment you need (included in the starter course).Click the Courses/Sessions and costs link on the left for details, or email Chris King. Dacorum Fencing Starter Course: 26th April 2007 to 5th July 2007 |
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| 20.08.2006 | ||||
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****Dacorum Fencing has opened a club specifically for juniors**** With the successful application of an Awards for All grant, and a generous donation from local graphics company Stylographics, we are delighted to announce the establishment of Dacorum Buccaneers Fencing Club.
The Club will focus on 12-16 year olds, giving them the opportunity to learn to fence. It will be based in the Main Hall at Hemel Hempstead School, Heath Lane, Hemel Hempstead, on Tuesday evenings, with tuition and coaching from 7pm-8.30, and the opportunity for free fencing until 9.30pm.
Courses will be organised into 3 11 week terms, based around the school term, with extra weeks available at the end of term as an optional extra (@ £6.00 per week).
The first course runs from Tuesday 19th September - Tuesday 5th December (with a half term break 24th October). The cost for the first course will be £80 per person. This will include all equipment, coaching and 1 year's BFA social membership (necessary for insurance purposes).
For further information and an application form, please contact:
or write to:
Chris King
Dacorum Fencing
c/o 21 Hastings Way
Croxley Green
Rickmansworth
Herts
WD3 3SQ
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| Currently the information on this website is for the senior section of Dacorum fencing. There will either be a sister site launched for Dacorum Buccaneers, or I will adjust the information on this site to reflect both sections of the club. | ||||
| New Newsletter to download. Following the AGM on 29th July 2006, there is a new newsletter for you to download found in the Downloads link on the left hand side of the screen. | ||||
| 25.05.2006 | ||||
| There are a number of things to catch up on since I last updated this site.
First off, you may want to read the March issue of the Newsletter, found in the Downloads section on the right. The Club rules have been updated accordingly, found in Club Rules, or in Downloads as a PDF version. Dacorum Fencing would like to welcome all the new members that have joined since the last update! If you wish to contact us about anything, you can either ask us at the club, or you will find the contact details under the Contact Us link. |
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Colin Bennet (on the right) and Guy Miscampbell (on the left) entered into the Hertfordshire County Novice Foil Championships in February this year, representing Dacorum Fencing (contrary to what the HFA website says!). They done well, Guy made it to the quarter finals, and Colin made it to the semi finals, bringing home a Bronze medal. Congratulations to the both of you! Taking part in competitions outside the club is an excellent way of increasing your ability to fence. Fencing within the club is primarily for practicing and improving your technique, however, you will come to know the weaknesses in your opponents, and they will come to know yours. Fencing outside the club helps you to think on your feet, to quickly adapt to your opponent. The experience you gain from competing is invaluable! On top of that, having a goal really helps to focus your training. If you are interested in taking part in any competitions, just ask Chris King for more info. |
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Colin Bennet has had a good year, as at the clubs annual dinner this year, he was also awarded The Christmas Cup. The Cup was donated by Jacqui Christmas, a former committee member, as a leaving present and is awarded to the most improved fencer of the year. Well done Colin, and keep up the good work! |
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| Dacorum Fencing made a presence at the Hertfordshire Team Foil Championships this year. Our team initially was Peter Davies, Chris King, and myself, but unfortunately Peter had to pull out because of a nasty knee injury. At short notice Guy Miscampbell volunteered to take his place. We were unfortunate in the pools, and were dawn up to fence TRYB A, and Barnet A, both are very strong teams. We lost convincingly in both matches, and as such, didn't make it to the DE's. Even so, it was still well worth going, as I mentioned earlier, you learn so much competing, even if you don't do so well!
I think that's it for this update, and I shall endeavour to keep this site updated more regularly!
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