Coach Wanted

I have received news that Dave has broken his leg whilst holidaying in Austria.  I understand that he will be out of action for up to 12 weeks, probably returning to coaching early to mid May.  He is therefore likely to be limited to administrative duties.  In the circumstances, it is likely that emails and…

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It has been my intention throughout my presidency to make every effort to constantly develop and improve our system of coach education and examination . . .  I like to think, that with the unstinting efforts of a number of our most senior coach educators, we have made enormous strides in bringing coaching and specifically…

Message from Prof. Angela Goohall:“It is with great sadness that I have to tell the fencing community that Istvan Lukovich passed away on Saturday 27th February….”The above from the Fencing Forum may be of interest to some of the older members who were around when Istvan was one of the foreign coaches invited some years…

Over the last few residential courses, I have become increasingly concerned about the number of people that are coming with expectations of doing the Advanced and Diploma levels while freely admitting that they “have done hardly any work” “not even looked at the questions” and are “just going to see how it goes”. . ….

Today we received the following from British Fencing. I would like to draw the attention of all our coaches to its contents:“This weekend at the BUCS Championships there was an incident where a broken foil blade pierced a pair of breeches and caused a leg injury.British Fencing would like to take this opportunity to remind…