Some brave souls battled through the snow to attend the recent Wallace Fencing Epee 48er competition:

• Poule 2
  • Bronze - Duncan MacFadyen
• Poule 3
  • Bronze - Colin MacInnes
  • 5th - Kris Moodley

The next 48er will be a Foil one on 11th May - entry online at http://www.wallacefencing.org.uk/~wfa/page158.html

That event is the final in a series of 6 48ers with the cash prizes awarded to the top 3 overall competitors.

The team Scotland selection for this year's Veterans Home International match has been announced by Scottish Fencing.

Included in the teams are Mark McKenzie (Epee), Keith Davidson (Sabre) and Fiona Jamieson (Foil) from GWEFC.

The Veterans 5 Nations is being held this year in Dublin on May 4th & 5th and represents a great opportunity for another strong Scottish performance.

The Dundee Duel is an unique annual 1-hit Epee competition, where competitors compete both individually and as part of a team.  Several of our fencers attended this year's event:

• 9th - Duncan MacFadyen
• 12th - Mark McKenzie
• 25th - Greig Marshall
• 49th - Kris Moodley
• 63rd - Sarah Loughran

Several members of the club are discussing the idea of an additional "Bring Your Own Kit" training night - probably to be held on a Monday evening in the West End.  If you are interested please speak to Paul, Kris or Simon.

Full details not finalised but we expect that there will be one or more coaches at these training evenings.

There will probably be at least 1 electic box but no other kit to borrow - so Bring Your Own.

Some good club results at the recent Sabre 48er held by Wallace Fencing Academy including some first time sabreurs.

There were a couple of rounds of teams and then to the serious individual poules

• Poule 2: Gold, Keith Davidson
• Poule 3: Silver, Mark McKenzie
• Poule 4: 5th, Colin Macinnes
• Poule 8: Bronze, Johnny Mulholland

Full results are available

A select few of the club members made it along to the Scottish Open 2013 held at Meadowbank Sports centre - the rest were presumably still recovering from the holidays.

Women's Foil

• Maria Cabrelli (10th)
• Ruth Davidson (23rd)

Men's Foil

• Duncan Macfadyen (14th)
• Colin Macinnes (42nd)

Men's Sabre

• Keith Davidson (21st)

Men's Epee

• Henri Techer (40th)

An almost full turn out for this 48er held at Wallace Fencing Academy - there were 48 entrants but 2 cried off sick on the day but with 1 reserve on the day we had 47. Maybe next time we will get the full 48.

With so many people we just had time for 4 rounds of individual competition. Good results from our club members - for several of whom this was their first competition.

Club members competing

• Mark McKenzie
• Paul Dyer
• Kris Moodley
• Johnny Mulholland

The club will be running a new Beginners Course, starting from 25 Aug. Places are limited to please complete the application form.

From July 10th, club nights will be running from 6:30pm until 8:30pm [Ed: to make use of the bright nights?]. As usual, we will be running some special classes throughout the summer alongside the normal training. More details are available in the latest Newsletter

The results of the club's annual 48er Foil competition are now available.