Where we are in Herne Bay

This is just round the corner from Parkside (the building to the left of the station as you face the entrance. Times will be 7:00pm - 10:00pm. The car park belongs to the station and is Pay and Display - there is plenty of parking in the streets around or you can take a chance...it's up to you!
Click here for timetables of buses to Herne Bay

Click here for a map of where we are or see where it is on Google Maps

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South East Foil Competition

Well done to everyone who took part, particularly: Ladies: Jane 2nd , Joanna Cornish 7th, Dominique 11th. Men: William Ross 16th, Alex Eager 18th, Tom Dickson 19th.

Club competitions

The annual competitions will be held in July as follows:

Club Holiday

There will be no fencing on 17th, 24th and 31st August. The new season will commence on 7th September

Club Annual General Meeting

The AGM was held on 15 June. Unfortunately, Simon Hartley, our chairman, could not attend due to illness - we wish him as speedy recovery.

The minutes of the meeting are here

Mallard is on Facebook

Ages ago, I set up a Mallard Fencing Club Facebook group - if you are on Facebook, why aren't you a member! Just enter Mallard Fencing in the search box and join!

Well done Crystal, Georgia and Jo

Well done to Crystal who came 3rd in the U14, Georgia who came 2nd in the U12 and Jo who came 2nd in the U14 in the Kent Schools foil competition

Sean Slootweg Memorial Sabre Competition,  24th May 2009

Hello.

My name is Paul Slootweg, and I am a member of Northampton Fencing Club.

This year the club is inaugurating a new annual sabre competition:

The Sean Slootweg Memorial Sabre Competition to be held this year on the 24th May 2009, in memory of my son who died in March 2008. Details and the entry form can be found on the club website: http://www.northamptonfencing.org/Competition/SeanSlootweg.asp

I would like to extend my personal invitation to you, and hope you will forward this invitation to other members of your club who may be interested. The family has donated a new trophy to the club for this competition, and we look forward to presenting it on the day.

I will also be competing, so I look forward to meeting you on the piste!

Thanks,

Paul Slootweg
 

Epée and Sabre Championships 2009 - 5^th April

Results:

Ladies epee:

3rd=	2nd	1st
Lisa Pelham - Tenterden	Amanda Webster - Individual	Jane Clayton - Mallard
Kate Morwell-Neave - Invicta

Ladies sabre:

Men's epee:

Men's sabre:

Pictures of the winners:

Men and Women's Foil including Intermediate and Vets

DATE                    21st JUNE 2009

CLOSING DATE       15th June 2009

VENUE                   The New Hall, Sports Centre,University of Kent, St Thomas Hill, Whitstable Road, Canterbury, Kent, CT27NL.

Click here for details and application form

Len Camin Open competition. Men and women's Epee

Date; 11th July 2009
Venue; Acacia Hall. Dartford, Kent. DA1 1 DJ

Closing date for receiving entries: Monday 1st July 2009

Click here for details: flyer and application form

Still looking for more sponsorship

Graham Clayton, Jane's son, is running in the Edinburgh marathon in May 2009 for Macmillan cancer nurses. Every runner has to collect at least £750 sponsorship. He has a website link where anyone who knows him can sponsor him online. www.justgiving/grahamclayton. He is a former Mallard fencer and former British U/16 and U/17 champion who represented GB on many occasions and would greatly appreciate all of his old fencing friends helping him out with some sponsorship.

THE OXFAM OPEN 2009

30th & 31st of May 2009 – Talybont Sports Centre, Cardiff

The Oxfam Open is a 6 weapon fencing competition run in support of the charity Oxfam. All profits from the event are donated to the charity and result count towards national rankings. This is a great way to enjoy the sport whilst helping a great cause!

For online entry and full details visit: www.starswordclub.co.uk/oxfam_open.html

On the Website you can also find: postal entry forms, sponsorship forms, maps and directions, entry lists, event T-shirts and more.

If you need any more information please don't hesitate to contact me.

Your support is very much appreciated!

Kind regards,

Peter Russell (Event Organiser)
 

4 weapon competition - 2009

The competition was held at Mallard Fencing Club in Herne Bay. Well done to everyone who took part and particularly well done to UKC-1 for beating Tenterden in an exciting barrage final

Here are some photos I took of the event

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U16 and Senior Boys and Girls Foil, Epée and Sabre Championships 2008/2009

Well done to everyone who took part. Here are the results:

Mallard v Tenterden Match

Tenterden came over to Mallard on Monday en masse and we had a great evening of fencing. This year, Mallard won 34-28.

Simon receiving cup from Russell

Dominique and Jane gained their level one coaching qualifications

Congratulations to Dominique and Jane on gaining their level one coaching qualifications in foil and epee respectively - it sounded like it was a pretty arduous weekend!

We now have at least one qualified coach in each of the weapons - definitely a tick in the club development plans!

Autumn Newsletter

Jane has put together a newsletter. Please have a look at it - there is some important information in it, particularly regarding fees.

Junior Match v Invicta

The full results are here.

Well done to Lydia (Invicta) for winning, Henry (Invicta) came second and Joanne and William (Mallard) for coming third equal.

Crystal Ferret from Mallard won the style prize

Good Bye Lee

Lee Glendon has left the club to take up pastures new - we wish him every success and hope he finds the time to visit us occasionally

Child Protection Policy

We have adopted the BFA Child Protection Policy. You can read the full document by clicking here. The link is also on the 'Policy Statements' Page

Clubmark

On Monday, Rodney Francis came to the club to give us the once over and we gained our Clubmark.

We are only the third fencing club in the UK to have done this, so well done to Jane for driving this through

Kit for sale section

I have put a new link on the right for people to advertise old kit for sale. This is just club members (at the moment - perhaps we can get manufactuers to advertise?).

Click here or on the link to go to the page

KCAFU Senior and Intermediate Foil

We had a good turn out for this event. I have put in some videos - they have come out a bit scrappy but if you want, I do have higher resolution videos.

I will put up the results when I receive them but apparently Richard came third in the men's intermediate  competition. Here he is receiving the medal from Dominique as he left before the end of the competition

We've received a grant

We have just received a grant of £300 from the Kent Trust for Youth Sport, for which we are very grateful. We will be buying some smaller sabre weapons to allow our younger members to take up sabre. As part of the agreement, we will be having a press event in the near future.

Fencing exhibition at Herne Bay Memorial Park, 24^th August

Good time this afternoon – after the rain had passed we had people queuing through to the close – we had to give group tasters in the end to stop them going home disappointed!  A big congratulations to Simon for organising both the Herne Bay and Canterbury exhibitions

Fencing exhibition at Dane John Gardens, 10th August 2008

I have uploaded the photos taken at the exhibition. A nice day out, if a bit windy! Thank you to everyone for turning out and making the day so special. Hopefully we will have some new blood in the club as a result. I'm not sure the sabre jousting on bikes was an unqualified success - but good fun!

Here are the videos we took - some were a bit odd but they give a flavour of the day!

You can see that some of the videos are a bit strange - one I forgot i was recording, hence a good view of my feet! Can you tell that there was a Chinese influence in the background music?

Results of the Club Senior Foil Competition

The foil competition finished on Monday

Here are the results:

Results of the Club Epee Competition

The epee competition finished on Monday - David was 6-0 down when he realised he has lost the tip from his epee! So with a new epee he continued going 9-1 down. Then he completely changed tactics and caught up at 13-13 before going on to win. Here are the results:

Results of the Club Junior Competition

Congratulations to William for winning the competition and well done to everyone who took part. Here are the results:

1st	William Ross		William receiving the competition cup
2nd	Cameron Foreman		(L to R): Cameron, William and Joanna
3rd=	Joanna Cornish
3rd=	Harry Driscoll
5th	Luke
6th	Alex
7th	Oliver
8th	Francis
9th	Henry

 

Results of the Club Sabre Competition

The competition was held as a pool unique. Here are the results:

*retired injured

Next Monday, is the epee competition starting at 8:00pm

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Results Kent U/10 U/12 U/14 Foil Championships 2008

I have now received photos from the competition. Click here to see them

If anyone wants larger photos (around 2 MB each), let me know and I'll send them to you - use the 'send us a message' link on the left

Results of the Epee and Sabre Competitions

Well done to everyone who took part - a good day's fencing! Click here for some photos

Changes to the Constitution and Byelaws of the Club

There have been some minor changes to the Constitution and Byelaws of the Club.

Constitution section 3: 'The Club shall accept into membership any person from their Tenth birthday' has been changed to: 'The Club shall accept into membership any person from their Tenth birthday irrespective of race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion or any other potentially discriminatory factors'

Byelaws section 6: The sentence 'Acceptance and refusal of any application for membership shall be at the absolute discretion of the Committee' has been removed

Social Membership is Changing

How clubs can apply for low cost social or recreational membership for club members.

Social Membership purpose and eligibility:
This membership category is intended for ‘starter’ groups or fencers who only wish to fence socially within their registered club.
Social Membership has changed. From April 1st 2008 fencers will now be issued with a social membership card and voucher. The voucher is for allowance to fence in one local competition and must be handed over to the competition organiser. All social membership cards/vouchers will be sent to the club secretary. Social membership is only available via Registered Clubs, however, you can also apply for social membership via the online membership facility (your card will be sent to the club secretary of your club).

Please note that for the purposes of social membership, a Club is defined as a group of individuals meeting at one venue only and only covers fencing within that venue. The Club must be an affiliated and paid-up member of the BFA.

The only membership benefit is solely to provide insurance cover for fencing within the nominated registered club and 1 local competition.
Social members have no right to “The Sword”, vote or receive any other benefits of British Fencing.

Application must be made by the Registered Club who should supply HQ with the details on the attached application form. Failure to provide all details will delay processing. Click here for membership form

Clubs will receive members cards/voucher as confirmation of insured fencers included under the policy. Insurance cover will only commence after the names and fees are received at HQ.

Downgrading for members in any other category is not permitted.
 

Clubmark

You probably all know that we are hoping achieve Clubmark standard this year. This has required a tremendous effort on the part of members of the committee and in particular by Jane. East Midlands region club were the first in England fencing to be awarded Clubmark but we hope to follow soon.

To take some words from the East Midlands Region club website: 'When it comes to important things like bids for grants and funds or mundane things like local authority venue hire, the Clubmark award signals to Local Authorities, leisure and education departments that a sports club is run effectively and efficiently, and meets national standards especially concerning policies and procedures for equality, diversity and child protection and the way all its activities are managed and lead'

Below are a number of documents we have submitted. All of the documents are in the Policy Statements section.

Minutes of the Committee meeting held on 19^th February

Click here to see the minutes of the above meeting

Congratulations!

Well done to Henry, Alex and Zack on getting their Grade 2 certificates!

We're still on Facebook

If you're a member of Facebook, I have just set up a Mallard Fencing Club group page, so why not join in! Click here to go to the page. You will need to sign up if you are not already a member

Well done to all those who took part in the U16/senior school foil, epee and sabre

Mallard v Tenterden

On the last night of fencing, Tenterden juniors came over to Mallard for a foil and sabre match. Unfortunately, Mallard lost by 40-29 but a good night of fencing was has by all.

In the raffle (to which everyone was forced by Richard to buy tickets), we raised £37 for club funds.

Saluting your opponent

According to the FIE rules (updated June 2007) on the BFA website you should at the end of the bout as well…

Before the beginning of each bout, the two fencers must perform a fencing salute to their opponent, to the Referee and to the spectators. Equally, when the final hit has been scored, the bout has not ended until the two fencers have saluted each other, the Referee and the spectators: to this end, they must remain still while the Referee is making his decision; when he has given his decision, they must again perform a fencing salute and must shake hands with their opponent,
with the unarmed hand.

If either or both of the two fencers refuse to comply with these rules, the Referee will suspend him/them for the remainder of the competition taking place and from the following two FIE competitions in the weapon concerned (cf. t.114, t.119, t.120). The points or titles obtained at the moment of the offence remain acquired.

So you are warned!
 

Gambrill Cup

Because of the unfortunate demise of Deal FC, the Gambrill cup is now a trophy for the best club junior foilist. This was fought on Monday, 22 October and deservedly won by Jessica Whiddett.

Commiserations to William on coming second

Three gentlemen from Verona*
They looked somewhat larger in the flesh!

*apologies to W Shakespeare

Well done Jane

Jane reached the final 16 in the World Veteran's championships in Australia

Changes to the Bye-Laws of the Club - please note

Following a committee meeting on 7 November, there have been some modifications to the byelaws of the club. I have highlighted them in green. Please have a look - there is not much change but most importantly, all members of the club must have BFA membership at the appropriate level. If you have any questions, please have a word with a member of the committee. There will be more regarding the club's child protection policy shortly - for now, we have agreed to abide by the BFA guidelines

New Picture of Alfie Mallard

There is a new picture of our founder, Alfie Mallard in the picture gallery.

As an aside, my old fencing coach, Akos Moldovanyi is standing in front of Alf

BFA Required Clothing Regulations

The full document from the BFA is clear in its requirements for fencing at the club and in competitions. Please read this.

It also covers minimum distances between and behind pistes, electrical equipment and weapons