The second Scottish Open of 2016 was held in October at the Oriam centre at Heriot-Watt University.

Here are the results for our club members and irregular visitors:

Men's Epee

• 10th - Chris Anwyl
• 30th - Kris Moodley
• 38th - Daniel Bee

Men's Sabre

• Silver - Glenn Sancroft
• 10th - James Anderson
• 18th - Colin Macinnes

Women's Sabre

• Gold - Jennifer Sancroft

The Veterans' Winton Cup is an annual team event, with teams representing various regions around Britain.  Scotland has never managed to provide a team but was invited to join the North Britain team a few years ago.  

Wallace Fencing Academy held the first of their 48ers on Saturday (17th Sept).  This was an Epee event with several of our fencers attending:

Poule 1

• 4th - Duncan MacFadyen

Poule 2

• 6th - Alex Wren

Poule 3

• Silver - Kris Moodley

Poule 5

• Gold - Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol

Poule 6

• Gold - Peter Ruadh Drummond

The next 48er will on Saturday 12th November and will be a Foil event .

Cally Uni need the main hall for a Freshers' Fair on Thursday 15th September - so our training will move to The Atholl Arms for some tactical training :)

The 2016 Celtic Challenge was held in Dublin over the weekend of 23rd/24th July at DCU hosted by Ireland Fencing. Veteran fencers from various Celtic nations took part in competitions over both days with their individual results being accumulated to decide the overall result for the Dragon Trophy.

Results for the travelling group from our club:

Men's Epee - Scottish Team result 3rd

• 6th – Mark McKenzie
• 12th – Andrew Munley

Far in the frozen North (even in the Summer), a few brave souls from our club competed in the Aberdeen Open. 

Men's Foil

• 9th - Thomas Crowe

Women's Epee

• Bronze - Alex Wren

Men's Epee

• 7th - Kris Moodley

Scottish Fencing have recently announced that the next Scottish Open will be held on the weekend of 15th/16th Oct.  Previously the Scottish Open was usually held on the first weekend in January.

An event website has now been created scottish-open.com

As is usual, a small select bunch of us traveled down to Carlisle for the Cumberland Open.  As usual, the pie was good, the locals friendly and some medals were liberated.

Results for our regulars:

Saturday

Women's Epee

• Gold - Alex Wren (Strathclyde Uni)

Men's Epee

• 10th - Kris Moodley (Kyle FC)
• 14th - Colin Macinnes

Men's Foil

Even though this year's event was smaller that last year's, there was a great amount of fun at the Glasgow Master at Arms.  People even put up with some very strange electrics - we have now decided that the Linlithgow electricity supply was too slow ;)  Next year we will aim to be back in the metropolis that is Glasgow where power is plentiful.

GWEFC will be holding an introduction to fencing course on Thursday 26 May.  Give us two hours of your time and we will teach you how to fence.  Bring a friend - it's better to learn together.

Also an oppertunity for those who have attended previous Beginners' Nights to refresh their memory about fencing.