Fencing Social - Tuesday 14th September
An Evening of Magic & Mind Reading with Chris Dugdale (directed by Tony Middleton)
Hi All,
On Tuesday 14th September we're organising a fencing outing to see Tony's latest production at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, click here for full details.
Tickets will be the bargin price of £10, as long as ten or more of us go (£15 if not).
Please let me know if you'd like to come and bring your money along to fencing on Thursday.
You can email me direct (if you have my email address) or socialATsa-fc.org.uk (replace the AT).
Other halves, friends and all welcome!
Hope to see you all there.
Helen
ps. Date for your diary - Thursday 9th December - Fencing Christmas Meal
Showing posts with label Social. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Monday, 2 August 2010
Open Air & BBQ
Open Air and BBQ - 12 September
Hopefully this will not come as a surprise to everyone who's been along recently, but our annual open air event is rapidly looming over the horizon. If you haven't had an entry form yet it is available here or if you can get to any club evening one of the committee should have a few copies on them.
If this is your first, its a relaxed day to get a bit of fencing in, show the family quite what it is you do on Thursday nights to come back with odd shaped bruises, and then get stuck into a few beers and BBQ afterwards (or during!).
Hopefully this will not come as a surprise to everyone who's been along recently, but our annual open air event is rapidly looming over the horizon. If you haven't had an entry form yet it is available here or if you can get to any club evening one of the committee should have a few copies on them.
If this is your first, its a relaxed day to get a bit of fencing in, show the family quite what it is you do on Thursday nights to come back with odd shaped bruises, and then get stuck into a few beers and BBQ afterwards (or during!).
Sunday, 11 July 2010
Commitee meeting
SA-FC August committee meeting, Tue 13th July 8PM
On the beer terrace at the Sandridge Rd Allotments (behind the King William pub).
Access is from Marshall Avenue, which runs between Sandridge Rd and Beech Rd.
Entrance is between house numbers 24-26. Post code for your Tom Tom AL3 5HT.
Park in the car park and walk on the path that runs directly away from the car park towards the two polly tunnels on the far side of the site.
We’ll be on the beer terrace, or if wet in the far polly tunnel
Beer, snacks, company, executive decisions to be made, and funny shaped vegetables!
On the beer terrace at the Sandridge Rd Allotments (behind the King William pub).
Access is from Marshall Avenue, which runs between Sandridge Rd and Beech Rd.
Entrance is between house numbers 24-26. Post code for your Tom Tom AL3 5HT.
Park in the car park and walk on the path that runs directly away from the car park towards the two polly tunnels on the far side of the site.
We’ll be on the beer terrace, or if wet in the far polly tunnel
Beer, snacks, company, executive decisions to be made, and funny shaped vegetables!
Monday, 26 April 2010
Quiz Night
Quiz Night!!
Just a reminder that we'll be having a quiz at the Hare & Hounds pub on Old London Road, in St Albans this Thursday (29th April) starting at 8pm. Directions here.
Entry fee is £2 per person, with cash prizes for first and second place!!
So come along with your clever hat on and enjoy the intellectual(?) company of your fellow fencers.
There will be chips - so how can you resist!!
See you all on Thursday I hope.
Helen :)
Just a reminder that we'll be having a quiz at the Hare & Hounds pub on Old London Road, in St Albans this Thursday (29th April) starting at 8pm. Directions here.
Entry fee is £2 per person, with cash prizes for first and second place!!
So come along with your clever hat on and enjoy the intellectual(?) company of your fellow fencers.
There will be chips - so how can you resist!!
See you all on Thursday I hope.
Helen :)
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Curry night on Thursday April 1st
No fencing on April 1st .... this is no April fools joke :)
It's a curry night instead at the Waterend Barn (Lloyds) which is in the centre of St Albans.
Please arrive at 8pm. You can have a look at the website here and also find a map on how to get there.
See you there! If you haven't been fencing for awhile, then please come along and catch up with everyone.
It's a curry night instead at the Waterend Barn (Lloyds) which is in the centre of St Albans.
Please arrive at 8pm. You can have a look at the website here and also find a map on how to get there.
See you there! If you haven't been fencing for awhile, then please come along and catch up with everyone.
Round Up - 25 March Round Up - 25 March
In celebration of the long weekend, please join us for a Curry at the Waterend Barn on 1st April - meet there at 8 and then hopefully onwards for a night on the town!
For those of you interested in competitions and sabre (a minority I know!)
might be of interest.
The AGM returned a committee in the form of:
Jon Daley - Chairman
Philip Allen - Treasurer
David Reid - Secretary
James Bird - Armourer
Liam Nichols - Webmaster
Helen Turner - Social Secretary
A very warm thank you to Hazel for all her efforts as Social Secretary over the past two years and also to John Williams for his enormous contribution over the past five years.
Finally we are accepting designs for a new logo to go on club branded kit - so grab your coloured pencils and get scribbling. We'll be looking to select a design in the first week of May - the designer of the winning logo may get something for their efforts.
Sunday, 14 March 2010
Annual General Meeting
AGM - Tuesday 16th March 8PM at the Portland Arms
It's that time of year again - time to stand up and be counted, your chance to stand for high office without the danger of being embroiled in an expenses scandal.
8PM start at the Portland Arms http://theportlandarmspub.co.uk/ at AL3 4RA.
We'll be feeding you, so no need to eat before you come.
If you'd like to see the agenda before hand, or have anything you'd like to add to the AOB section, please contact one of the committee.
Look forward to not being able to squeeze into the bar.
It's that time of year again - time to stand up and be counted, your chance to stand for high office without the danger of being embroiled in an expenses scandal.
8PM start at the Portland Arms http://theportlandarmspub.co.uk/ at AL3 4RA.
We'll be feeding you, so no need to eat before you come.
If you'd like to see the agenda before hand, or have anything you'd like to add to the AOB section, please contact one of the committee.
Look forward to not being able to squeeze into the bar.
Monday, 21 December 2009
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
We resume activities on 7th January 2010 - provided we don't get the type of weather we had last Thursday (We hope
We resume activities on 7th January 2010 - provided we don't get the type of weather we had last Thursday (We hope
everyone got back alright)
See you all on Thursday 7th January 2010
Friday, 18 December 2009
Fencing in the snow
When is snow like a pizza? When it's deep and crisp and even.
What a strange night's fencing that was! We had to call a halt early - the school hall was going to be shut because of the snow that had fallen.
As it was the last session of the year, we were due to hold a social get together afterwards - this turned into a cross between speed dating and the world pie eating competition - Lets do it again next year.
At 10PM it looked like something from Scott of the Antarctic, I hope everyone got home safely.
What a strange night's fencing that was! We had to call a halt early - the school hall was going to be shut because of the snow that had fallen.
As it was the last session of the year, we were due to hold a social get together afterwards - this turned into a cross between speed dating and the world pie eating competition - Lets do it again next year.
At 10PM it looked like something from Scott of the Antarctic, I hope everyone got home safely.
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Christmas meal
We're not fencing on Thursday - we're getting fat instead. 7:30 PM at the Portland Arms Pub for our sitdown Christmas meal (which you've all of course booked with Hazel!).
Portland Arms is off the Verulam Rd on the way out of St Albans towards Redbourn AL3 4RA http://theportlandarmspub.co.uk
If you've any questions please get hold of Hazel on social@sa-fc.org.uk
See you there.
Portland Arms is off the Verulam Rd on the way out of St Albans towards Redbourn AL3 4RA http://theportlandarmspub.co.uk
If you've any questions please get hold of Hazel on social@sa-fc.org.uk
See you there.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
St Albans open air - match report
9:30 in the morning on the 2nd Sunday in September, it can only be check in for Sabre at the annual St. Albans fencing club open air.
Once again club members and their significant others enjoyed a full day’s fencing in the fresh air, by the end of the day we were glad to get to the barbeque and beer, though it must be said one of our number started on the beer rather earlier than most and had worked out that he could down a beef burger during the 1min break in the Epee semi final – Next year we’ll have to try him on spinach.
Four souls were keen enough to check in at 9:30 for the Sabre, some spirited bouts saw the winner decided in a single pool, before many of us had finished the bacon butties.
Fifteen of us checked in for the Foil, and we were soon running through two rounds of pools to determine the direct elimination (DE) positions. Tactics now played a part as lunch was available – eat now between pools, or wait until the Epee starts? How much quiche can a fencer consume and still fight a bout?
Jon D was all the time working away in the background trying to decipher the scribbles on the pool sheets as we each handed in the results on the way to the refreshments, and then prepared the next round as we stuffed ourselves.
Now it’s the turn of the Epeeists. Much confusion as people try and work out which of the body wires they’re wearing they need to plug in – and a new problem, the sun’s come out and we cant see the scoring box lights clearly – what a great problem to have!
Not as many people signed up for Epee, so we’re put into two pools of 6 and off we go, getting much bigger bruises than in Foil.
Never seems to take a long as the Foil, and even with the bigger pools all to soon most of us are wishing we’d tried that bit harder, reached that bit further, been that bit quicker so we cold have finished that much further up the results table.
Jon says back to the Foil – more tangled body wires, searches for missing lames, then back to the piste for the first (and for some of us last) round of the DE – now we’re starting to get tired we’re also fighting to 15 points, but the breeze through the mask makes it that bit more bearable.
Through the DE up to the final, than back to the Epee to run through the DE, and finally we’re ready for the finals – Foil first, and you can tell it’s a well run competition as the best two fencers give us the best match of the day. The match goes to it’s 3rd 3min period, but the two fencers
seemed as fresh, fast and determined as we’d been at the beginning of the day.
To finish off the fencing for the day we all sit down to watch the Epee final – two very different styles, Philip with a classical style and very neat covering action – Andy, laid back and open almost to the point of horizontalness. A fantastic match, with the lead changing many times, neither player giving up, and neither allowed to get to far ahead, but in the end Andy just managed to get a couple of points ahead and clinch the trophy once more.
A great days fencing, fantastic food and good company, what more could we have wanted? Next year it’ll be even better.
RESULTS
Sabre
1st Paul
2nd Philip
Joint 3rd Terry, Tim
Foil
1st Paul
2nd Ben
Joint 3rd Philip, Terry
Ladies Foil
1st Susie
2nd Lindsey
3rd Susan
Epee
1st Andy
2nd Paul
3rd Philip, Jason
A big thank you to Jon for organising the event and running the day. To John and Phillip for purchasing the food and drink. To Katrina for setting out the lunch and to Helen for running the barbeque. Finally thanks to everyone who helped on the day - moving, setting up etc.
Once again club members and their significant others enjoyed a full day’s fencing in the fresh air, by the end of the day we were glad to get to the barbeque and beer, though it must be said one of our number started on the beer rather earlier than most and had worked out that he could down a beef burger during the 1min break in the Epee semi final – Next year we’ll have to try him on spinach.
Four souls were keen enough to check in at 9:30 for the Sabre, some spirited bouts saw the winner decided in a single pool, before many of us had finished the bacon butties.
Fifteen of us checked in for the Foil, and we were soon running through two rounds of pools to determine the direct elimination (DE) positions. Tactics now played a part as lunch was available – eat now between pools, or wait until the Epee starts? How much quiche can a fencer consume and still fight a bout?
Jon D was all the time working away in the background trying to decipher the scribbles on the pool sheets as we each handed in the results on the way to the refreshments, and then prepared the next round as we stuffed ourselves.
Now it’s the turn of the Epeeists. Much confusion as people try and work out which of the body wires they’re wearing they need to plug in – and a new problem, the sun’s come out and we cant see the scoring box lights clearly – what a great problem to have!
Not as many people signed up for Epee, so we’re put into two pools of 6 and off we go, getting much bigger bruises than in Foil.
Never seems to take a long as the Foil, and even with the bigger pools all to soon most of us are wishing we’d tried that bit harder, reached that bit further, been that bit quicker so we cold have finished that much further up the results table.
Jon says back to the Foil – more tangled body wires, searches for missing lames, then back to the piste for the first (and for some of us last) round of the DE – now we’re starting to get tired we’re also fighting to 15 points, but the breeze through the mask makes it that bit more bearable.
Through the DE up to the final, than back to the Epee to run through the DE, and finally we’re ready for the finals – Foil first, and you can tell it’s a well run competition as the best two fencers give us the best match of the day. The match goes to it’s 3rd 3min period, but the two fencers
seemed as fresh, fast and determined as we’d been at the beginning of the day.
To finish off the fencing for the day we all sit down to watch the Epee final – two very different styles, Philip with a classical style and very neat covering action – Andy, laid back and open almost to the point of horizontalness. A fantastic match, with the lead changing many times, neither player giving up, and neither allowed to get to far ahead, but in the end Andy just managed to get a couple of points ahead and clinch the trophy once more.
A great days fencing, fantastic food and good company, what more could we have wanted? Next year it’ll be even better.
RESULTS
Sabre
1st Paul
2nd Philip
Joint 3rd Terry, Tim
Foil
1st Paul
2nd Ben
Joint 3rd Philip, Terry
Ladies Foil
1st Susie
2nd Lindsey
3rd Susan
Epee
1st Andy
2nd Paul
3rd Philip, Jason
A big thank you to Jon for organising the event and running the day. To John and Phillip for purchasing the food and drink. To Katrina for setting out the lunch and to Helen for running the barbeque. Finally thanks to everyone who helped on the day - moving, setting up etc.
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Photos from the Open Air event are now online
The latest photos from the Open Air event have been uploaded to the photos section of the site.
You can also view the images at a larger size on our flickr.com Open Air page. You can download the images from the flickr.com website and leave comments if you have a free account with flickr.com.
If you have any photos that you would like to add to the site, please bring them in on the next fencing night.
A video of some of our novices fencing in the competition is available on youtube.
You can also view the images at a larger size on our flickr.com Open Air page. You can download the images from the flickr.com website and leave comments if you have a free account with flickr.com.
If you have any photos that you would like to add to the site, please bring them in on the next fencing night.
A video of some of our novices fencing in the competition is available on youtube.
Monday, 14 September 2009
2009 St Albans Open Air - update
Thursday, 13 August 2009
SAFC closed 20th & 27th August
The St Albans Fencing Club is closed on August 20th & 27th, 2009 as the sports hall receiving a new protective varnish coat on its floor surface.
August 20th we're heading down to the
August 20th we're heading down to the
more details at the next fencing night.
August 27th we will be having a bowling night in
August 27th we will be having a bowling night in
. More information will be posted in the next few days.
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
We're on Flickr.com!
Visit our page on Flickr.com to download the latest images from our competitions and social events. If your already a member of Flickr.com why don’t you link up with us and leave some comments on the photos. You can visit out photostream here.
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