Archive for 'Fencing' Category
Fourth José Luís Balcazar tournament (2007)
25 January 2007The Jose Balcazar Tournament is the fourth annual unclassified competition at The Point Fencing club. On January 27 at 10 am registration will open for beginners, one year and under (or Fencing III) and close at 10:30. The winner of each years tournament is commemorated on a special display plaque. This is a very special tournament for the point, do not miss it! You may found the entry for last year’s one here.
Photo shoot at The Point
26 October 2006
The photo above is a snake preview of the 2007 The Point Calendar. This year the calendar has moved into the full-fledge digital era. Digital cameras and Mac were flying everywhere. Stay tuned, because this one is going to be very different from the 2005 and 2006 ones 
8 minutes and 37 seconds
27 February 2006Eight minutes and thirty-seven seconds was the fencing time of the semifinal between Peter Habala and David Lidow. By far, this bout was the best fencing at the Illinois Open. I ever seen in my two and half years of foil fencer. Everybody knew that this was the anticipated final. To impressive details: David’s point accuracy was from another world, Peter fleshing could cover in less than half a second around four lethal meters flying in the air. We were all speech less. The 64 tableau for the DE was totally skew since one fencer of my pool did not show up. This lead up to all A fencers to the same quarter. So after I was eliminate by Carla Esteva (A2002), she run into Peter Habala (A2006), and then Peter run into David Lidow (A2006). The other three quarters were not so nasty. Anyway, it was a memorable Illinois Open and I forgot my camera home. Oh, one last thing, the results can be found here.
Illinois Open (Feb 25-26)
21 February 2006The Illinois Open at CAAFC is coming (Feb. 25-26). You can check the registered fencers here. Preregistrations are still possible here here.
Preregister for the Illinois Open at CAAFC
7 February 2006The Illinois Open is going to be on February 25 and 26. You can preregister at Ask Fred.
Chicago, Ask Fred, and Peter Habala
29 January 2006Finally, we decided to go up to Chicago for the CAAFC tournament. Long, long time since the last one I went. Now at CAAFC you can pre-register and check the competition results in Ask Fred. Here you can find the link to the tournament we went. The mixed foil event that I took part in was won by Peter Habala. I could sit for ever watching his fluent fencing. It seems so natural and easy…
2006 José Luís Balcazar Open
28 January 2006The 2006 José Luís Balcazar Open for novice fencers at The Point Fencing club took place on Saturday, January 28th, 2006. The final top four was occupied by:
- Cece Borries (1st place)
- Judy Vancleeff (2nd place)
- Daniel Downey (3rd place)
- Stephanie Helle (3rd place)
These are some of the pictures of the fencers and people in the meet.
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Next tournament at CAAFC
19 January 2006The next tournament is an Open tournament at CAAFC on Sunday 29th of January. Epee registration closes at 9:00am, foil at 11:30am, and sabre at 1:3opm. More information can be found at the schedule tab and competition calendar of CAAFC web site.
The Point Fencing Club 2006 Calendars
18 December 2005The calendars for 2006 arrived to the club last Friday during the 3rd Friday Foil Fight. Check them out! This year they come in a cool landscape layout instead of the 2005 portrait one.
New club hours at The Point Fencing Club
28 November 2005As of December 1st, the club will no longer be open for free bouting on Thursdays. It will be opened on Thursdays only for clinics and special events as announced.
The new club hours are as follows:
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 6:00-9:30pm
- Saturday: noon-4:00pm