All fencing sessions are being run as normal this week at Fraser Park.

Tuesday: 6 – 7pm beginners, 6 – 8pm for seniors and 8 – 9pm for conditioning

Thursday: 6 – 7pm beginners, 6 – 9pm seniors

Saturday: 10 – 12pm

Thank you for bearing with us last week and we all look forward to seeing you this week at training!

The organisers of the NZ U15 and Oceania Cadet Championships are pleased to announce that with the support of the Oceania Fencing Confederation, there will be a pre-competition camp held on 23 and 24 April 2019, in Wellington, NZ.

The camp will be at the Tindall Gym, Wellington High School, Taranaki Street, Wellington, the same venue as the competition.

Just a reminder that there is a venue change to Treadwell Hall for this Thursday and Saturday training.

Thursday’s class will be running from 7.30pm – 9.30pm with the junior class running from 7.30pm till 8.30pm.

Saturdays class will be starting at 10am and finishing at 12pm as usual.

The address can be found in the Google Maps link below.

Due to some technical difficulties, those who have already entered the NZ and Oceanic cadet and U15 Champs need to re-enter this competition asap.

Click here for the new link to the entry form.

For those who haven’t entered:

Fencing New Zealand and Fencing Central welcomes you to the NZ U15 and Oceania Fencing Confederation Cadet Championships for 2019. This event will be held at Wellington High School on 25th to 28th April, 2019. Entries close 14th of April.

Clothing and Equipment Standard:

All clothing must conform to FIE standards – including 800N jacket, breeches, plastron, 1600N masks with new FIE safety strap, gloves with no holes, no curly head wires, FIE blades.

Name, country code, national emblems are NOT required.

If you have any questions please email: president@fencingcentral.org.nz

Saturday 16 March 2019
Sabre – Wellington High School Lower Gym
9.00am Registration opens
9.15am Registration closes
9.30am Fencing Starts

Epee – WSC Building, Tanera Park, Brooklyn
1.00pm Registration opens
1.15pm Registration closes
1.30pm Fencing Starts

Sunday 17 March 2019
Foil – Wellington High School, Lower Gym
9.00am Registration closes
9.15am Registration closes
9.30am Fencing starts

Entries to: bishop.lamb@pistingaround.com 

Entries close Thursday 14 March 2019

Entry fees: 1 weapon $30.00, 2+weapons $45.00 – payable at registration. Cash please.

Equipment: Must comply with FeNZ domestic competition requirements (1150N combined jacket/plastron, 350N breeches, FIE blades, sabre cuffs etc.) New FIE mask attachments not required. Spare weapons and wires required piste-side.
Weapons control on the piste.

Note: all events fenced mixed age and mixed gender. Highest placed fencer by gender receives the title, where two or more fencers exit in the same round, a 15 point fence-off for the title will take place.