International Course Animateur, Moniteur, Prévôt, Maître d'armes

October 4-10, 2005 in Bad Karlshafen/Germany

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    STAGE D’ESCRIME ARTISTIQUE ET DE SPECTACLE

Le C. E. VANDOEUVRE avec le concours de la FEDERATION FRANCAISE d’ESCRIME, l’ACADEMIE D’ARMES de FRANCE, la LIGUE LORRAINE d’ESCRIME, le COMITE DEPARTEMENTAL d’ESCRIME de MEURTHE-&-MOSELLE et le CONSEIL REGIONAL de LORRAINE, organise un stage d’escrime artistique et de spectacle les 10 et 11 septembre 2005.

information et inscription

The British Academy of Fencing

Annual Residential Summer Coaching Course
Monday 29th August to Saturday 3rd September 2005
Denstone College, Nr. Uttoxeter, Staffordshire

details and application form

  Akademie der Fechtkunst Deutschlands - ADFD
Académie d'Armes Internationale - AAI
International course - wheelchair fencing
September 16-18, 2005 in Bad Karlshafen/Germany

3rd International Fencing Congress
 Historical Art of Fencing
July 8-10, 2005 in Bad Karlshafen, Germany


various performances at the opening ceremony Friday July 8 at 8 p.m.



Maître Marcel-Henri DUBOIS, President of the I.A.A., shows medals to the World Championships winners teachers in Linz, Austria

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Germany and Italy protest against new foil timing
read about it at www.fencing.net
The Austrian Academy (AdFÖ) dedicated a plaque to honour Cavaliere Luigi Barbasetti, founder of the AdFÖ and the Union Fecht-Club.

Dr. Herbert Laszlo, President of the AdFÖ, Dr. Dieta Pfliegl, President of the Union Fecht-Club and Renate Kaufmann, Mayor of the borough VI of Vienna unveiled the plaque on December 3, 2004. The plaque is mounted on the building Hofmühlgasse 16 in Vienna, home of the Union Fecht-Club.
For more information see the site of the AdFÖ.

Fencing Master Robert Scranton, former President of the USFCA
† September 16, 2004

Maestro Scranton left this world for the next last thursday. He was known by several in the group. His credital list included having a degree as a fencing
coach (ithaca,NY), being the former United States Fencing Association President, instructor to several junior gold Olympic and World fencing finalist - and his hungarian Master wrote one of the current foil, saber, and epee fencing manuals.

He'll be missed. Blessings Maestro Scranton.

Respectfully Submitted,

Dean

Arkansas Democrat Gazette
UALR Fencing Instructor Adjunct Faculty
9/20/04
   World Championships results

Photos album

IAA Congress on May the 20th 2004- Sables d'Olonne, France

Mike Bunke has been elected Vice-president
Gérald Williot is the new General Secretary
The Stockholm Royal Armory (livrustkammaren) will present a beautiful fencing exposition from Mai 27 till January 9.
The internet site is only in Swedish, but you can download a few excellent pictures.

Decisions list 2003 Congress in Leipzig on november the 22d and 23d :

FOIL
• Lamps locking time : 300 milliseconds (before: 550)
• Foil contact time increase : 15 milliseconds (2)
• Adoption of the Mangiarotti tip (most difficult to whip)
• Maximal strip arrow reduced to 1 cm
• Stop tip pression increased to 750 gr (500)
• Removal of the shoulders inversion as a fault

SABRE
• Lamps locking time : 120 milliseconds (350)
Application : test during the World Junior Championships from october the 1st 2004.

 Maître Dr. Albert Martincic
President of the Akademie der Fechtkunst Österreichs
Vice-Président de l'Académie d'Armes Internationale

† September 27, 2003

We lost a good friend and a great Master


en français and in english
Truly international participation at the 2nd International Fencing Congress
until June 28 we have received entries from 10 different countries:
Bangladesh, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Netherlands, Russia, USA, Yougoslavia
The Secret History of the Sword by Christoph Amberger
British Academy of Fencing - BAF


David Austin
did not stand for reelection as President of the BAF.
He was awarded Honorary Life Membership for his valuable services to the Academy.

New President is Philip Bruce, 112, Bollington Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK10 5EL.


Mike Joseph
did not stand for reelection as Secretary General. He was elected Vice-President and awarded Honorary Life Membership.

Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2000, ISBN 0-300-08352-1

1. Martial arts - Europe - History To 1500
2. Martial arts - Europe - History 16th century
3. Renaissance
4. Europe - Social life and customs
5. Europe - Social life and customs - 16th century

A must have for fencing masters