Posted: 12/04/2018

Fencing Central Open Championship 2018

Hutt Valley Fencing Club and Fencing Central invite you to attend the Fencing Central Championship and Team Foil and Team Epee Challenge 2018 on 19 and 20 May.

Entries are due by 17th May. Entries after this date will incur a late entry fee.

Please ensure that you are affiliated if you are competing in this event. If not, click here to affiliate now.

Time and Date:

• Individual Epee - 9.15am, Saturday 19 May
• Individual Sabre - 11.00am, Saturday 19 May
• Individual Foil - 8.30am, Sunday 20 May
• Teams Epee and Foil will be held at the conclusion of the respective individual event
• Weapons control will be one hour before each event

Venue:

• Wellington High School (Upper Gym), Taranaki Street, Wellington

Full details, including how to register, can be found at the following link: Click here

Updated: 17/04/2018

Please note that entries close Wednesday 18 April 2018

All entries after this date will incur a late fee

Eligibility: 

The U15 competition is open to all fencers who were under 15 years old on the 1st January 2018, ie: born in 2003, including 1st January 2003. 

The Cadet competition is open to all fencers who were under 17 years old on the 1st January 2018, ie: born in 2001, including 1st January 2001.

This competition is suitable for secondary school students. 

Participants must be members of Fencing New Zealand for the 2018 fencing year. (ie: have paid their membership fee for the year) If you are not yet a member you can become one.

Go to the Fencing New Zealand website https://dev.fencing.org.nz/index.php/membership to affiliate.

Competition Format: 

Under 15:

1 round of poules (Bouts to 5 hits) followed by direct elimination (Bouts to 15 hits).

All weapons will be fenced as separate gender unless numbers do not permit, ie: there must be 6+ competitors for each gender. If there are less than 6 competitors an event will be fenced mixed gender.

Under 15 Sabre will be combined with Cadet Sabre and fenced as a combined event.

Cadet (Under 17):

1 round of poules (Bouts to 5 hits) followed by direct elimination (Bouts to 15 hits).

Mixed gender and women’s events will be offered. Female fencers may enter a mixed event provided they also enter the women’s event for the same weapon.  There must be 6+ competitors for a women’s event to be held.  

Where:

Wellington High School
Upper and Lower Gyms
Taranaki Street
Wellington.

For Full Details CLICK HERE

For the Entry Form CLICK HERE

Current Entry List CLICK HERE

A little bit of History

Digging through our electronic archives uncovered a fascinating piece of New Zealand fencing history.  We found 10 scanned copies of "Piste", the NZ Amateur Fencing Association Inc magazine dating from April 1959 to Spring 1963.  The set is incomplete but does give an insight to fencing at that time and how many of the problems faced then (money, membership, exposure) still remain to this day.  

Articles on Australian tours, the introduction of electric fencing, Olympic teams, Commonwealth teams, general news from around NZ and elsewhere make these magazines interesting reading for any fencer.  Here they are:

April 1959

October 1959

May 1960

October 1960

Autumn 1961

Spring 1961

Autumn 1962

Spring 1962

Autumn 1963

Spring 1963