Royal Tunbridge Wells Fencing Club
We are deeply saddened to confirm the death of our Head Coach and Chairman on Friday 26 April. Steve passed away following a head injury sustained in a fall, whilst on holiday in Spain with family and friends over the Easter break.
Cape Fear Fencing Association
First, is it possible to hold the last 12 and under youth event of the season on May 18th (a little over a week away)? Not many people have gotten to me about either date. That would mean we would hold...
Living by the Sword
Dystopian novels are all the rage. The genre isn’t new of course. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World remains one of the best, prophetic and disturbing, and, if the world lasts till 2032, which it probably will, his book will be 100 years old.
Living by the Sword
The bestselling author of Dark Matter, Thin Air and the award-winning Chronicles Of Darkness, Michelle Paver, surely has another hit on her hands with her new Gothic horror, Wakenhyrst. The book begins in the 1960s...
Living by the Sword
Norway’s Erling Kagge is perhaps the quintessential explorer for our Google-mapped age. Having become the first person ever to reach the three “poles of inaccessibility” – the North Pole, the South Pole and Mount Everest ...
Living by the Sword
Agatha Christie’s novels were rarely more than 50,000 words long. Simenon’s were even shorter. But what was good enough for them isn’t for crime writers, their publishers and – I suppose – readers today.
Living by the Sword
Given the daunting logistics of getting several dozen international musicians all the way to Shetland, confining the resultant festival to the islands’ main town might seem eminently forgivable, indeed sensible.
Living by the Sword
Has Tectonics – the Glasgow contemporary music festival that set out to challenge the status quo, shock us with the experimental and defy comfortable expectations – succumbed itself to the curse of predictability?
Cape Fear Fencing Association
Totally my fault, and I have confused people. After asking people about times early in the year I had said the camp schedule would be: July 8-12 beginner camp July 15-19 advanced foil July 22-26 advanced sabre July 29- August 2 advanced epee Some time later I looked at things...
Cape Fear Fencing Association
We had an excellent tournament yesterday. It should be the baseline for what should be happening all of next season. Yes, there were a couple of hiccups, but one of the things that saved it was all the...
Salle Green
Before we talk about the tactics of the remise, a review of the context and technique is important. The remise is one of three renewals of the attack commonly taught in all three weapons: (1) Remise – a renewal of the attack in the same line.
Living by the Sword
When I pop my clogs and shuffle off this mortal coil, a small piece of my being will be forever devoted to a place which makes my heart soar, Northumberland. I have fond memories of childhood holidays, and more recently revisiting with my own family.
Living by the Sword
ACCORDING to most reports, Henrietta Bird – resident of Tobermory, and sister of the famous explorer Isabella Bird – died of typhoid fever in 1880, at the age of 45. So it’s safe to say that this week’s lunchtime Play...
Living by the Sword
“BIT nervy,” muttered Fife folk songwriter James Yorkston near the beginning of a show which was also the first of a tour to accompany his new record, The Route to the Harmonium. “Still, this one doesn’t have any words...
All-American Fencing Club
Unfortunately, we won’t be available to do one of our lightsaber classes this year during Star Wars Days, May 4th-5th. (Just in case you don’t know the Star Wars Days, May the 4th Be With You, and Revenge...
