Excalibur Community Fencing Club

From WAFA’s Ben Peden: Allan Jay, epee individual and team silver medallist at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games is in town for a few days. He will be dropping by UWA Fencing Club in Claremont (corner of Goldsworthy and Princess) on Wednesday from 7:30pm to say hello, and will be attending a WAFA barbeque on [...]

Fencing will start at Excalibur in a limited way with the venue opening up on Tuesday nights from 17 January 2012. The club jackets and lames will not be available, so bring your own. Members who are eager to start may also wish to attend Cavaliers pre-season sessions on Wednesdays from 6:30 to 9:30. The [...]

Excalibur fencers walked away with a swag of trophies at the Western Australian Fencing Association awards night on 10th December, including top club in both foil and sabre. Here are this year’s Excalibur state champions and other award winners: Men’s open sabre champion – Sutherlan Scudds Men’s junior sabre champion – Zak Leonhard Men’s cadet [...]

This Saturday we will have our AGM and annual awards presentation. Instead of the usual sabre/foil split, the session starts at 1pm for everybody. We will do a little fencing then start the meeting around 2:00 – 2:30pm, hoping to be finished no later thatn 3:30pm so people have time to go the WAFA AGM [...]

Despite the long weekend, fencing at Excalibur will be on as usual at the usual times on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November.

The Video section has been updated with footage from WAFA Open 2 and AFF 3 Canberra.

The next Activity Weekend will be held by UWA at UWA Claremeont on 17-18th September. Timetable Saturday 9:30am – 2pm 09:30am Under 13 Foil – WAFA (non electrical) 11:00am – Team Foil – Open – (electrical) First Time Parents Epee 3 hits – If you are a parent and never fenced before here is your [...]

The Darling Range Cup is an inter club epee competition hosted by Darling Range Fencing Club and Zen School of Fencing. There are U/13, U/15 and Open divisions, with medals and trophies awarded. The competition is taking place on the 11th of September. The venue will be Zen School of Fencing Academy, Unit#8-12 Stafford St, [...]

The main schedule for the forthcoming Activity Weekend can be found here, but please note the following additional information about this and Cadets, courtesy of Ben Peden at WAFA: 1. Refereeing. Steven Lim will host a refereeing workshop for all those volunteering to help out with the refereeing at cadets. This will be held from [...]

WAFA Activity Weekend 2 for 2011 is hosted by Excalibur Community Fencing Club and will be held on 18 and 19 June at South Fremantle Senior High School Gym. Schedule Saturday 18 June 12:30 for 1:00 start – WAFA Under 15 Foil (electric, lame bibs required) 1:00 for 1:30 start – WAFA Team Sabre – [...]

Open Foil #2 Venue Change Please note that the WAFA Open Foil #2, scheduled for Saturday 28 May, will be held at ECU Cavaliers, Mount Lawley with roll call at 11:30am. Please arrive early for warm up and preparation. Epee and Sabre competitions will continue to be held at Belmont on Sunday 29 May as [...]

Tomorrow, Friday 6 May, sees the return of Excalibur club sessions at the usual time. On Saturday 7 May, the sessions are running one hour earlier than usual. They are now 12:00 noon Sabre, 1.30pm Foil. Following sessions are at the normal times.

We wish to advise that we will accept entries on the day for this weekend’s Excalibur Masters competition for age 30+ fencers. Please come along!

The AFF rankings for 2010 can be found here. Here are the top-50 national rankings for Excalibur fencers, which include 16 top-10 positions: Open Men’s Foil: Steve Johnson 48= Open Men’s Sabre: Sutherlan Scudds 1, Zak Leonhard 12=, Steve Johnson 21=, Andrew Scott 30=, Jadryn Dick 30=, Peter Lebedev 30=, Nate Ruback 30=, Hamish Graham [...]

For the first Saturday of term 2 on 7 May 2011, both sessions are one hour earlier than normal. Sabre goes from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm, foil goes from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm.

The Darling Range Cup is an Epee competition hosted by Darling Range Fencing Club and Zen School of Fencing. There are U/13, U/15 and Open divisions, with medals and trophies awarded. The date will be Sunday 15th of May. The venue will be Zen School of Fencing Academy, #7 Stafford St, Midland. Entry fee is [...]

The times and locations of this Saturday’s WAFA Open/U20 events (epee and sabre) have been changed because the Belmont venue is not available. The events are now as follows: Epee – Saturday 2 April on piste at 11:00 at UWA (changed again!) Sabre – Saturday 2 April 12:30 for on piste at 1:00 at Excalibur [...]

The Excalibur Masters Competition will be held on 30 April and 1 May this year. Previously part of the Fremantle Masters Games, this biennial event for fencers 30 years and over is now being run as a standalone competition. Medals will be awarded for overall places, and for each age group: 30s, 40s, 50s and [...]

With the start of the school year, fencing is about to restart at Excalibur. The first day the club will be open is Friday 4 February. The full set of term dates is listed in the Programme page.

Excalibur-trained fencer Sutherlan Scudds’ winning performance in last month’s Australian Championships has been highlighted by the WA Institute of Sport in their news item here. We wish Sutherlan all the best as he performs internationally this year in the lead up to next year’s Olympic Games.