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 [...]

Here is a wrap-up of the top-4 results by Excalibur fencers in WAFA open competitions this year: WAFA Open 1 Men’s Sabre: 1 Zak Leonhard, 3= Jadryn Dick, 3= Steve Johnson Women’s Sabre: 1 Tori Leonhard, 2 Lisa Blyth WAFA Open 2 Men’s Sabre: 1 Zak Leonhard, 2 Jadryn Dick, 3= Steve Johnson Men’s Foil: [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

The Australian Cadet Fencing Championships are being held from 9 to 13 July 2011 at Kingsway Stadium, Madeley, Western Australia. Please find attached important information for: Potential Competitors and their parents; Volunteers; Clubs Document link

The final WAFA rankings for 2010 can be found here. Here are the top 10 rankings for Excalibur fencers: Open Men’s Foil: Steve Johnson 6=, Mathew Williamson 9, Luke Mitchell 10=, Michael Mroz 10= Open Men’s Epee: Steve Johnson 9 Open Men’s Sabre: Sutherlan Scudds 1, Zak Leonhard 2, Andrew Scott 3, Jadryn Dick 5, [...]

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 [...]

Next weekend, the first of the year’s activity weekends will be held at two locations: Saturday ECU Cavaliers Fencing Club at the Mt Lawley Sport and Fitness Centre, corner of Learoyd and Woodsome Streets, Mount Lawley (Google Maps link). 1:00pm Welcome and warm ups 1:30pm Under 13s foil comp (non-electric), Under 15s foil comp (electric) [...]

The WAFA calendar for 2011 has been published and is available here.

The Australian Cadet Fencing Championships are to be held in Perth this year. The draft programme can be found here. In order to make this event a success, many volunteers will be needed. The details of the volunteer positions can be found here. A WAFA General Meeting is to be held on 29 January at [...]

The January 2011 WAFA Waffle newsletter can be found here.

Excalibur fencers walked away with a swag of trophies at the Western Australian Fencing Association AGM on 12th December. This included three clean sweeps; there was an Excalibur champion in every women’s foil category, and every men’s and women’s sabre category. Men’s open sabre champion – Sutherlan Scudds Men’s junior sabre champion – Sutherlan Scudds [...]

WAFA is running a Summer camp from 10 to 15 January 2011 for Under 13s, Under 15s, and Under 17s. Full details are in this PDF file.

On 23 and 24 October, the final WAFA Under 15/Cadet competition will be held, plus the Inter-Club Sabre Teams competition (all ages and genders). The schedule is: Saturday 23 October: 9 AM U15/Cadet Epee, 1 PM U15/Cadet Sabre Sunday 24 October: 9 AM U15/Cadet Foil, 1 PM Club Sabre Teams This is at the usual [...]

The WAFA site is currently at http://wafa.futronics.com.au. Hopefully, WAFA will regain control of its domain soon and will be able to revert to its usual address of http://www.wafafencing.org.au. In the meantime, please check out the new site, which is the result of a lot of hard work by Isobel Duff. Edit: The WAFA site is [...]

The final Activity Weekend of the year, including State U13/U15/U20 foil competitions, will be held on 18 and 19 September, at UWA Claremont Campus Gym, Goldsworthy Road, Claremont. The schedule is as follows: 18 September 2010 – Saturday 9am Under 13 Foil (to ~11am); 11am Under 15 Foil (to ~1pm); 12 noon BBQ / BYO [...]

WAFA is holding a free referee course at 6pm-9pm on 16 September at UWA Fencing Club, Goldsworthy St. Full details are in this PDF file.