Heather Jarrold has passed on the news of the death of Bill Vinyard. He died suddenly but peacefully on the 23rd October, aged 86. After Bill began fencing in his forties, he approached the sport with complete dedication. He ran Ipswich Fencing Clubs for decades and never missed a night. He leaves a legacy of fencers…
Andrew Wong, one of our overseas members (Hong Kong) will be visiting the UK next year, for 3 or 4 nights between Jan 16th – Jan 31st. He is seeking a house / apartment or other kind of suitable accomodation to rent for himself and his daughter at that time in London or nearby. If…
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…
This was the second time we have had the Denstone course in October rather than in the summer and this new date continues to be an advantage in many ways . . . Having the college to ourselves is a great improvement over sharing it with other conferences, although accommodation was limited this year due…
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”. . ….
The following results were achieved at the BAF Exams held at Denstone on Oct 30th 2010: RESULTS
Andy Wilkinson will be teaching a workshop for the Directors Guild on the 4th December 2010. There is a discount for BAF members. More information
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