Welcome to Excalibur Community Fencing Club

This is the web site of Excalibur Community Fencing Club, located in the southwest metro area of Perth, Western Australia. The club meets three times a week during the school term and has members spanning the primary school to older adult age range.

The Programme page has full details of when we meet, but here are the first term’s dates and times for 2010:

Tue 2nd Feb – Tue 30th March, 7.00pm
Fri 5th Feb – Fri 26th March, 7.00pm
Sat 6th Feb – Sat 27th March, 1.00pm Sabre, 2.30pm Foil

To learn more about us, see the About page. If you are interested in taking up fencing, please contact us using the Enquiries form.

Excalibur Community Fencing Club is grateful for the support provided by our Sponsors.

WAFA Open 1 - Épée Venue Change

From the WAFA site:

Please note that Belmont City College is unavailable for competition in the morning of 13 Mar 2010. Accordingly we will trial using the Belmont Oasis Leisure Centre (next door) for the epee competition. The sabre tournament will continue as per usual at Belmont City College in the afternoon.

This is on the other side of Abernethy Road from Belmont City College, to the south of the intersection with Alexander Road.

Belmont Fencing Location

Several people asked recently about the actual location in Belmont where many of the WAFA competitions are held. This is the Belmont City College Gymnasium at 106 Fisher Street, Belmont. That’s between Alexander Road and Wright Street. Here is a Google Maps link.

However, please see the above post for news of a change of venue for the WAFA Open 1 Épée competition.

X-Mart classifieds section added

Looking for fencing equipment? Got some for sale? Want to place a Wanted ad? Check out the new X-Mart page of this site.

This service is free and open to all WA fencers, not just Excalibur members. If you want to place an ad, just send an email to the Webmaster with full details, including details of how people can contact you. Please remember to inform the Webmaster when the ad is no longer required, or people will continue to contact you. Ads will be removed after a time, at the discretion of the Webmaster.

Video page updated

The Video page now contains videos from the WAFA State Open Final, held in November 2009.

Progressive Home Tutors’ Sponsorship

Progressive Home Tutors has kindly given us a sponsorship.

The sponsorship is in the form of paying the WAFA affiliation fee for first time junior competitors this year.

If you wish to compete in WAFA competitions this year and this is your first year competing at this level, your affiliation fee to WAFA will be paid by Progressive Home Tutors.

If you are considering competing for the first time this year, please see me or another member of the committee for an application form. If you have already paid your affiliation fee to WAFA fill out an application form and include proof of payment and we will reimburse you.

We thank Gary Sudran and Progressive Home Tutors for their ongoing support of our club. In the past they have contributed generously to our quiz nights to help make them the success they were.

Click here to find out more about Progressive Home Tutors.

Regards

Jon

President

Newsletter October 2009

The October newsletter is now available here. See the Newsletters page for this and other newsletters.

Video Page Added

A Video page has been added to this site. This currently includes several bouts from the recent Fremantle Masters Games. If you have any video you would like to see added to this site, please contact the webmaster.

Fremantle Masters 2009 - Results

This veterans’ event, hosted by Excalibur, was a great success. It was fenced with a competitive but very friendly spirit. Excalibur fencers enjoyed some excellent results, netting some 25 medals:

Excalibur Medal Count (3 weapons)

Overall: 2 x gold, 5 x bronze
Age groups: 6 x gold, 5 x silver, 7 x bronze

Here are the full results, with Excalibur fencers shown in bold.

Epee Individual

Overall

1st Francis Kwong
2nd Adrian Paxman
3rd Tim Inglis, Gary Sudran

30s

1st Eliot McCann
2nd Sharon Kyrwood

40s

1st Adrian Paxman
2nd Lionel Gilbert
3rd Steve Johnson, Jonathan Allard

50s

1st Francis Kwong
2nd Tim Inglis

60s

1st Gary Sudran

70s

1st Peter Harbin

Excalibur Medal Count

Overall: 2 x bronze
Age groups: 1 x gold, 2 x silver, 2 x bronze

Epee Team

1st Adrian Paxman, Sharon Kyrwood, Francis Kwong
2nd Keith Worsley, Eliot McCann, Gary Sudran

Foil Individual

Overall

1st Steve Johnson
2nd Francis Kwong
3rd Olena Polyakova, Gary Sudran

30s

1st Olena Polyakova
2nd Sharon Kyrwood
3rd Anne Bauer

40s

1st Steve Johnson
2nd Keith Worsley
3rd Amanda Fimmel, Jonathan Allard

50s

1st Francis Kwong
2nd Ian Walker

60s

1st Gary Sudran

Excalibur Medal Count

Overall: 1 x gold, 2 x bronze
Age groups: 2 x gold, 1 x silver, 3 x bronze

Sabre Individual

Overall

1st Tim Inglis
2nd Richard Hicks
3rd Steve Johnson, Chris Rollins

30s

1st Elizabeth-Kate Gulland
2nd Sharon Kyrwood

40s

1st Steve Johnson
2nd Anne Johnson
3rd Keith Worsley, Maxim Lebedev

50s

1st Tim Inglis
2nd Richard Hicks
3rd Chris Rollins, Heather Inglis

60s

1st Gary Sudran

Excalibur Medal Count

Overall: 1 x gold, 1 x bronze
Age groups: 3 x gold, 2 x silver, 2 x bronze

Sabre Team

1st Gary Sudran, Francis Kwong, Chris Rollins
2nd Maxim Lebedev, Keith Worsley, Ann Rollins
3rd= Sharon Kyrwood, Heather Inglis, E-K Gulland
3rd= Wayne Hartas, Jonathan Allard, Tim Inglis

Newsletter July 2009

The July newsletter is now available here. See the Newsletters page for this and other newsletters.