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Save 10% on club fees to Dacorum Fencing paying by standing order! |
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| 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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
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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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