I enjoyed this event a lot because it was my first epee event two
years ago. Glad to hear that they still give out prizes for these
events (and we keep getting them). I will be home on June 9th and
going to try to attend competitions over the summer.

~Eric



--- In mufencingguild@yahoogroups.com, "Christopher Lee French"
<clfrench@e...> wrote:
> Jon,
>
> Thanks for writing. I was looking for you - you missed a great
show.
>
> MUFG, Z, SJ,
>
> This will be a short after-action.
>
> There were 23 fencers. The format was four pools of six and one
pool
> of five. I was in the pool of five, but I was not the only C in the
> pool. Out of the five there were three women. These were mostly
young
> people. I thought they were university fencers. They were 16-17
high
> school students. And they were dead serious fencers too. One gave
me
> the compliment? after, "freakishly long lunge." This turned out to
be
> a very tough pool. My record was 3-1 with 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 3-5; I was
> beat bad by the other C. My low indicators put me in seed position
#8
> (or 9, I forget). They fit us into a table of 32 giving me a bye
into
> the round of 16.
>
> I fenced Spar. I got the jump on the first few touches then was
able
> to hold out a 1 - 2 touch lead, not very comfortable, right down to
> the 13-14 point. I thought I was going to win it with crossover-
lunge,
> but Spar escaped. I won with counter-time, a false attack
> counter-parry and repost against the attempt to time hit (or
counter
> attack). This put me in the top 8 and wins a trophy sword. My final
> bout was against Pho. He has doubled in strength since I beat him
at
> FEX about two years ago. He sports a brand new B05, and seemed to
know
> how to use it. I could not seem to come up with anything to stop
him
> from hitting me. He hit me on my attack, he hit me when I was
still,
> he hit me when I moved, he hit me when I was trying to get him to
try
> to hit me (duh) and when I was trying to stop him from hitting me.
The
> result was 7-15 and that put finished me at #6. I still have allot
to
> learn about Epee.
>
> The competition turned out a B strength and the Gold finisher eared
> his B. Now that I think about it. I'll bet Eric could have won
this.
> Anyway, there were several other ratings jumps and a presentation
> ceremony that included some words on former fencer Tom Dan. Thanks
to
> the FEX for hosting and we'll see you all that the Rob Roy!
>
> So much for the short report, sorry about that.
>
> Cheers!
> CLF
>
>
>
> --- In mufencingguild@yahoogroups.com, "Jonathan Soucy"
> <mailjonathan@l...> wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > I hope you fenced well provided you entered the Tom Dann event. I
> unfortunately did not make it. I was called into work late Saturday
> afternoon after driving North Friday night. I did not have the
gusto
> to make the 3 hour drive again Sunday. I apologize if you were
> expecting spectator support. I keep high hopes to make my spectator
> debue at an event before turning 50.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >