http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net A Lidgetgreen.net weblog with a point Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:51:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello again! It has been a long time since I have written on this blog, so I will update it with some news. Since the competition (see the previous blog post), there was no fencing club in the final half term of the year 2008/2009. Fencing club restarted in September and took ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/11/05/wednesday-5th-november-the-new-term/ Hello all, We had the competition, unfortunately school vid camera vanished before hand, so could not video it. However, we had over 35 entrants to the competition. It was split between a Years 3/4 and a Years 5/6. We even had parents come to watch!!!! Because we had so many enter, it ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/07/06/the-competiton/ CAPTURE THE FLAG!!! Due to the fact that our fencing club has quite a few more experienced fencers, I decided it was time to see if they could put their technical skills to the test in a more tactical situation. We split into 2 teams. The aim of the game was to ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/05/14/wednesday-13th-may/ No April Fools jokes here as it was after midday! This lesson saw the third group graduate from their beginners courses and also saw some excellent fencing and even one disarm. So first things first, congratulations to Omar, Arbaaz, Antony, Alia, Sumaiya, Sidra, Jumanah, Sarah, Saif, Yahia and Haitham, who all passed ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/04/02/wednesday-1st-april/ So it has been over a month since the last post and a very hectic month it has been too! The fencing club is still going strong with a good group working hard at improving their skills in fencing in preparation for next weeks graduation, where I will hopefully have all ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/03/27/wednesday-25th-march-2009/ With a new group we ran throught the basics of sabre fencing. It seems that every class I take knows the basics of what to do before I even start the lessons.  Now this has been talked about before. In fact it happened over 400 years ago. This is a quote from ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/02/28/wednesday-25th-february-the-third-group/ Hello there! Well, the second group have finished their course and have successfully passed their test to get their certificates. Congratulations to Halima, Shadreck, Al-Aqmar, Luke, Caitlin, Amad, Mphango, Antony and Mateen. Keep practising your skills as there will be a school competition later in the year! Mr F http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/02/06/wednesday-4th-february-the-next-generation/ Another lesson on the volte and fencing in the barriers! We also had a new game where we had to swap masks in safe areas (behind benches). We only have 10 masks and our club usually has about 16-18 a week. To make it fair all 10 masks were in ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/02/04/wednesday-28th-january/ This week we had a bit more practice of a traversing step or a volte (step out of the way to one side). But, as we were back to normal numbers, we had a new game this week. It is called fencing in the barriers. Basically, we mark out a square ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/01/28/wednesday-21st-january-fencing-in-the-barriers/ So, three weeks had passed since the last club and as far as I could see, all of the group had had a very nice Christmas. So it was time to work off all those sweets and time sitting in front of the tv with a good bit of fencing. ... http://fencing.lidgetgreen.net/2009/01/13/wednesday-7th-january-the-battle-of-lidget-green/