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Van Diemen Fencing Club

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 428 057 473

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25.01.2022 Oops, 8 minutes late because it completely slipped Coach Avery's mind and he's been attending an online conference all day! Belated Happy World Fencing Day!

25.01.2022 Hey Sabreurs, I've written a short post on preparing for Sabre comps. Feel free to take or leave any of this advice, it's largely constructed from my various co...aches through the years. - Bring both a sports drink and a bottle of water with you. Sabre is much, much faster than the other two weapons. Even though the bouts are shorter (or rather, faster), they are very active. If you don't normally bring a sports drink for fencing comps (which are good for all three weapons), bring one for sabre. - Go in with specific goals. Only one (if any) should be about results for the competition. Make sure at least one goal relates to a specific skill and one relates to your attitude/mentality/disposition etc. For example, my goals for this comp are 1) To have fun 2) practice second intention actions 3) Coach the VDFC folks to improve throughout 4) Aim to earn a medal (=3rd or above). - Get there AT LEAST half an hour before start and spend a large amount of time warming up (plus, chipping in to help out with setup is important at club level). If you have the time/space, after warming up try to have a dry warmup bout with someone. The goal of these warmup hours isn't to win, but to get into the zone and get your fencing actions prepared. - Call your hits. Some people yell, some cheer, some pump their first, whatever. After your hit, be sure to show that you think you got it, but make sure you stop as soon as the ref tells you to knock it off. - Sabre comps are about momentum. If you're getting overwhelmed, take some time to catch your breath. Strategic shoelace things, hair fixing, etc are fine, but again, when the ref calls you en garde knock it off straight away. You cannot technically be carded for delaying the start of a bout but you CAN be carded for failing to promptly obey the ref. - Use the poules to feel out your opponents. This is where you try to catch people out, experiment with new tactics, see who is off their game etc. The DEs are do-or-die, so try to have some tactics in mind for each fencer or at least one action to try off the line. Related, watch the other bouts if you're not fencing or reffing. It helps keep your head in the game and it helps you gather information on how people fence; it's much easier to pay attention when you're not dodging a sword! - Above all, enjoy yourselves. Hopefully you're competing because you love fencing (and sabre!) so do your best and have fun! :) Good luck to you all!

25.01.2022 Weve moved our Social Fridays (7:30 pm - 9 pm tonight!) to a Discord server due to technical issues with the Zoom session we had on the first week. For the link to the server please email Coach Avery: [email protected] :)

24.01.2022 Havent found a sport that appeals to you yet? Why not have a stab at fencing?

24.01.2022 Always the thrillseekers, Karina and Avery had to evacuate their accommodation at 3am due to a very burning car in the alleyway behind the building. They're back in bed now thanks to the fast work of 3+ Victorian Fire Service trucks worth of firefighters.

24.01.2022 Hello Everyone! We are so glad that club is back from this evening, but there are a few things we need you to help us with: 1. Please arrive ready for club and leave as soon as club finishes 2. Please bring a drink bottle 3. Please use only the front door... 4. Please use the hand sanitiser that will be on a chair just inside the front door 5. PLEASE stay home if you are sick 6. Pretty please use the tape markings on the stage to guide where you place your chair so you stick to the social distancing IF you dont own fencing equipment we will lend you a kit for Term 3. You will need to care for this kit as if it were your own and bring it to club each week. We will give you a sheet on caring for gear (its pretty simple). :) Please remember to HAVE FUN! <3

24.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who joined our Social Friday last night!! We even had our long-lost fencers Don and Bryn joining us from Melbourne and Sydney! (The two bouting fencers on the right of the image). Bryn, Don and Nat provided great insights into fencing Foil for the Epeeists and beginners. :) We concluded the night by watching some wheelchair fencing! <3

24.01.2022 Look at the shiny new floor at our Tuesday venue! No more unplanned splits!

23.01.2022 Get those legs and arms ready for fencing! Its not long now!

22.01.2022 Fencing is a challenging sport where you combine the mental game with the physical game. That said, fencers come in all shapes, sizes and ages - dont miss the opportunity to try this awesome sport! Email us about having a go: [email protected]

22.01.2022 2020 TFA inc SABRE STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS Hosted by the Tasmanian University Fencing Club! Date: 23rd Nov 2020... Time: 1800hrs Venue: South Hobart Badminton Centre Categories: Open, Novice, and Juniors (U18) Fees: TFA membership = $20 (for those who have not joined) 1 category = $15 2 categories = $20 3 categories = $25 Tag your sabre buddies!

21.01.2022 FOUR SLEEPS until Tuesday club and EIGHT SLEEPS until our Saturday club resumes! Tuesdays: 12 and under 5 pm - 5:50 pm, teens & adults 6:10 pm - 8 pm [GLENORCHY] Saturdays: 12 and under 10 am - 10:50 am, teens & adults 11:10 am - 1 pm [HUNTINGFIELD]... 6 WEEK BEGINNER COURSE STARTS on the 17th Oct, 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm in Huntingfield. GLENORCHY CLUB: 148 Tolosa Street KINGBOROUGH CLUB: Tarremah Steiner School Hall, Nautilus Grove

21.01.2022 We had a lovely visit from ~28 excited Adventure Patch holiday program kids today! They bussed all the way from Huntingfield to have a stab at fencing at our Glenorchy venue! Hopefully we'll see some of them for Term 1 in Huntingfield in the Tarremah Steiner School hall on Saturdays!

20.01.2022 For tonights Social Friday (< 90 minutes...) well be watching some Foil videos that were requested by Nat! Theyre a cool selection shes curated for us so please email Coach Avery (see previous post) for the link so you can join. :)

20.01.2022 Oh my! We cant wait to see our Juniors at 5 pm and our Seniors at 6:10 pm today! Tolosa Street Hall, 148 Tolosa Street, Glenorchy! <3

20.01.2022 18 minutes... ;)

19.01.2022 At London 2012, Alaaeldin Abouelkassem won Silver and made history as the first African fencer to win an Olympic medal. Talking to us from Cairo, he talked us t...hrough his career so far and his hopes for Tokyo 2021. . . . . . . #fencing #fie #fiefencing #grandprix #egypt #egyptian #fencer #foil #competition #cairo #alexandria #tokyo2021 See more

19.01.2022 And just like that, we're done for 2020! Thank you, everyone, for making this crazy year more bearable. We'll be back in 2021 for our tenth birthday, Summer camp, Squad Training, trips to interstate events, professional development opportunities, lots of tournaments and our usual Tuesday and Saturday club sessions! We'll be posting over the coming weeks with pics from the State Foil and State Èpèe Championships we hosted recently, as well as pics of our fencers at the State ...Sabre Championships hosted by TUFC, as well as the results. Have a very happy Summer and please stay safe. For those who've recently ordered gear, we'll be dropping it off as soon as it arrives. Best wishes, The VDFC Team

18.01.2022 We had a fantastic tournament on Saturday! Our only comp for 2020 and we were thrilled with the turnout. :) Please see the results below. Shout-out to Ioana who beat all of the male Epeeists to come 1st overall. :) TFA Inc Brian Sibson State Foil Championships... TFA Inc State Epee Championships Open Men’s Foil 1st - Caelan Merkel - VDFC 2nd - Daniel Yuen - TUFC 3rd - Isaac Laredo - TUFC =3rd - Emil Kavic - TUFC 5th - Ben Hillier - VDFC Open Women’s Foil 1st - Caroline Miller - VDFC 2nd - Kathleen Lim - VDFC 3rd - Bea Beswick - TUFC U15’s Boys’ Foil 1st - Luka Beswick - TUFC Open Women’s Epee 1st - Ioana Mihailescu - VDFC Open Men’s Epee 1st - Isaac Laredo - TUFC 2nd - Andy Jones - VDFC 3rd - Caelan Merkel - VDFC =3rd - Avery Holderness-Roddam - VDFC 5th - Daniel Yuen -TUFC 6th - Fin Semmens - VDFC 7th - Emil Kavic - TUFC 8th - Ben Hillier - VDFC 9th - Tim Harvest - VDFC U15 Boys’ Epee 1st - Louis Cromer - VDFC 2nd - OScar Roebuck - VDFC U15 Girls’ Epee 1st - Fenja Lieser - VDFC 2nd - Abi Yates - VDFC U13 Boys’ Epee 1st - Xavier Schmidt - VDFC 2nd - Harry Rutland - VDFC 3rd - Quincy Green Carlos - VDFC =3rd - Caspian Schmidt - VDFC 5th - Oliver Mackey - VDFC 6th - Ziggy Carter - VDFC 7th - Clem Green Carlos - VDFC

17.01.2022 Coaching? Refereeing? Armoury? Olympian?

17.01.2022 It was heartwarming to see so many of our lovely fencers at club tonight! We hope that those of you who couldnt make it can come along next Tuesday.

16.01.2022 This week at Junior club we had Llewellyn, Austin and Olly, accompanied by Jacob and Hugo who we managed to not scare off at their first visit last week () AND we welcomed Ziggy and Zara! What a busy session! (Sorry Senior fencers; well take more photos of you next week!)

14.01.2022 Check out these before and after shots to see the incredible job Ben did restoring two of the club sabres after they rusted in storage during lockdown! Ben is spending the next two Tuesday club sessions giving everyone interested a crash course in fencing sabre in preparation for the Nov 24th State Sabre Championships hosted by the Tasmanian University Fencing Club! Following the comp, Ben will continue to run sabre sessions. :D We are VERY lucky to have this opportunity; Ben is an experienced sabreur and already has heaps of excellent drills organised. Plus he's lovely and we just know he's going to be an awesome coach! Don't be shy; give sabre a try! ;)

14.01.2022 Hi everyone, Unfortunately today's Zoom training sessions are cancelled. Please check back tomorrow morning for an update on the Sunday sessions!

13.01.2022 Honour and respect are very important. Before they fence, fencers salute each other and their referee. Although we no longer shake hands after weve fenced, we do give each other a second salute instead.

13.01.2022 Fencing is so exhilarating that you wont even notice that youre getting fitter at the same time!

12.01.2022 Did you know that fencing is one of the safest Olympic sports? Mostly thanks to modern safety equipment and strict safety rules. Check out this article: https://www.fencing.net/13020/fencing-safer-than-badminton/

12.01.2022 These good doggos have a reminder for all of our lovely fencers :)

12.01.2022 A bit late but here are a couple of pics from last week! Inspite of the extremely Wintery weather we still had fencers! AND we welcomed four new friends - Jacob, Hugo, Ethan and Marcus - to Junior club. We welcomed back our new friends Abi and Luke at Senior club.

12.01.2022 Our Saturday sessions in Kingborough will be back in Term Four! The lovely team at Tarremah Steiner School have agreed for us to hire their beautiful hall and we couldnt be more excited! The below images of the hall are from Google Images and the images of the fencers are a flashback to our fencing sessions with Tarremah students in June last year. :)

12.01.2022 We're on the road promoting the club this morning! Have a stab at fencing at your local session: Tuesdays in Glenorchy, Saturdays in Hunting field. :)

11.01.2022 Oops, 8 minutes late because it completely slipped Coach Averys mind and hes been attending an online conference all day! Belated Happy World Fencing Day!

09.01.2022 What shall we do this World Fencing Day?! :D

09.01.2022 Hey everyone, I'm going to be starting a weekly series of posts where I post my 'sabre video of the week'. Kicking off this week is Sydney Sabre's introduction ...to modern sabre fencing. It's mostly intended for spectators and people unfamiliar with sabre or fencing in general but is a really good intro to basic rules and actions in sabre. Following weeks will be a mix of training-focused videos like this and some great sabre matches. Feel free to ask me any questions you've got about the videos and I'll do my best to answer! See more

09.01.2022 Cant make Social Friday but want to watch the videos in your own time? Nat kindly curated these: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGRVlIEVDSQ 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch... 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKDHeLgI8f8 Bon appe-fence!

09.01.2022 Its Week Two and Glenorchy club is on again tonight! Kids 5 - 5:50 pm, Seniors 6:10 - 8 pm! :)

08.01.2022 Karina, Avery and Max the Tassie devil are in their way to the Fencing Victoria intensive coaching course! Up, up and awaaaaaaay!

07.01.2022 Hi everyone, Unfortunately todays Zoom training sessions are cancelled. Please check back tomorrow morning for an update on the Sunday sessions!

06.01.2022 Weve officially survived our first Saturday of Zoom sessions! The Juniors were a bit shy so no kids for the 10:30 session, but Strength and Conditioning then Intermediate/Advanced saw us working hard. Tomorrow (Sunday) we have Beginners (1:15 - 1:45) and Intermediate/Advanced (2 - 2:30). Well be focussing on footwork but have a sword and something to poke ready if you have them. :)

04.01.2022 Some people like to fence casually, and some people like to fence competitively. SOME fencers like to fence competitively casually. Which are you?

03.01.2022 Hey all! Were using Discord for our social session at 7:30 tonight! Text Coach Avery for a link to the server :)

03.01.2022 Have a great weekend everyone! We hope to see some of you at our Zoom sessions today: Kids: 10:30 - 11 S + C: 11:15 - 11:45 Intermediate - Advanced: 12 - 12:30... Beginners: 12:45 - 1:15 See your email for ID and PW or send us an email for details: [email protected]

02.01.2022 Tas Uni Fencing Club are back to training this week too! Tonight 6-8 pm and Wednesday 6-7:30 pm.

02.01.2022 A gorgeous day for our Kingborough session at Tarremah Steiner school hall today! :)

02.01.2022 7:30 pm - 9 pm tonight! Drop in or stay from the duration! :)

02.01.2022 Term Four Fees 2020 (Includes 2 weekly sessions + Zoom Sessions) Juniors (12 & Under) - $65 Seniors (Teens and Adults) - $80 Casual visits: $10 Juniors / $15 Seniors... Discounts for multiple immediate family members.

01.01.2022 Wait what? Zoom training? Yes indeedy! Send us an email for the ID and Password for our Sunday 2 pm sessions! [email protected]