Living by the Sword
It’s been a patchy year, to put it mildly, for the Scottish Freedom Series, Scotland’s competitive backcountry skiing and snowboarding circuit. The first two events of the season, at the Ben Lawers Range in February and at Nevis Range at the start of March...
Living by the Sword
Last year was not a good one for Rapture Theatre, the Glasgow-based Scottish touring company founded back in 2000 by artistic director Michael Emans, and his partner and co-artistic-director Lyn McAndrew.
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Looking at the driving and parking situations for the Iron Maiden on the 6th, we are doing the following: We are eliminating the sabre as there was only one entrant. We are moving the foil, which was...
Salle Green
For there to be a second intention, doesn’t there have to be a first intention? And there is. A first intention action is a complete action executed with the intent to hit. You execute a one-two-three high-low-high attack – that is first intention.
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Sort of like last week, the first part of this will be a public service announcement. PUT YOUR NAMES ON YOUR GEAR!! A lot of you are buying items for yourself or children. When I make a final sweep of the room every night...
Living by the Sword
ON TOM Piper’s brilliant set for Stef Smith’s thrilling new 21st century perspective on the story of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, three doorframes stand between the domestic space and the outside world. For each door...
Living by the Sword
“I BELIEVE that life is a prize,” hollered Nicki Minaj on Moment 4 Life, one of the closing tracks of a lengthy set, “I get what I desire / it’s my empire.” That was just one moment among many in which she projected an image of hyper-confident female assurance; as an artist...
Living by the Sword
IT’S a thing of wonder that a concert programme themed around war and death could feel so fulfilling, even uplifting. Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto had come up with a high-concept offering for his collaboration with the SCO.
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He noted that the second phase would cover three sets of three bedroom guest house, swimming pool, among others; while the first phase covered the Government House, the front gate and the fencing.
Living by the Sword
In a recent interview with The National newspaper, based in the United Arab Emirates, the Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa explained that he continued to live in Damascus not because he had to, but because, in spite of offers to live elsewhere, he chose to.
Living by the Sword
Reading Charlie Savage reminded me of a time I helped avert a family crisis for the business editor of The Scotsman. It was his sister’s 40th birthday and he had been about to present her with an emergency car repair kit when I intervened.
Salle Green
In between Sabre and Epee on March 7th we stole some time to talk about how the military sword has evolved in the modern world. These swords are the cousins of the weapons we carry, and although their modern use is largely ceremonial...
Living by the Sword
Every year I look forward to the RSA New Contemporaries. It always fizzes with energy. Here are the young showing us how, while the so-called grown-ups drag us through the grisly farce of Brexit. Nor does this year disappoint.
Salle Green
If you buy a textbook on fencing, virtually any text, you will find either drawings or pictures of fencers perform the standard sets of parries for the various weapons. There they are, in a good guard position...
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Found out that Robert Thomas and Erica Julien went down to South Carolina to fence in the Catcuda Clash. They both fenced in the mixed epee. Erica won her first DE and finished around 14th (Robert wasn’t certain and askfred results are not yet up).
