RUNNERS-UP, U9 @2016 Touche Grand Finals

 ( Runners-Up, First competition for 2016 )

( Foilists from GA Fencing )

The lack of practice showed when CP was not that aggressive throughout  the U9 foil competition.

Results:

Pool A

R1: 4 - 1, (2:32 remaining) WON.

R2: 4 - 3, (close call after being down the whole match) WON.

R3: 4 - 3, (another close call)

R4: 4 - 2, (playing around after leading 3 - 0).

Elimination

QF: 8 - 7, (2 rounds), WON

SF: WON

Finals: 2 - 7, LOST.

1st FENCING Course, Attended!

( Posted by Coach Ghadz to the GA Group )

from cHEss pIRATE to cHEss PIRATE!!!???

The Last Spar before Raya!

( Sparring with Coach Ghadzali )

( Getting used to New Competition Attire )

Despite the fasting month, there's no let-up in training for CP. If  last year he and Shreyes was in New Taipei City, Taiwan competing in the U16 event of the 8th Asian Dragons Invitational 2014, this Ramadhan he needs to prepare for an event on 25th July. Ne'chetula!

CP was also informed to have a back-up foil or 2 for future competitions as its not easy to get replacements for his style during competitions.

 ( CP, En Garde with the Coach.....Wishful Thinking! )

 ( Being forced back! )

 ( Nowhere to Run to CP! )

2nd Fencing Session.

As the Intermediate team will be competing in the U12 Grand Prix 1 competition organised by the MFF i.e. Malaysian Fencing Federation, the coach announced that there won't be any class for the Beginners Group on Saturday, 7 February.


As a result, a replacement session was held today at 9AM @Dewan Bakti-TTDI.

1st Day of FENCING Session

Some INFO on FENCING.

Finally, after a long delay CP attended his first fencing class for the year. Apparently, fencing is one of the core sports (sukan teras) for the school. Hence, the reason for his presence as somebody suggested that he give fencing a try.

The class was held at the Dewan Bakti near TTDI's At-Taqwa Mosque which will revert back to the school hall next week. 6 new padwan fencers joined the session which began at 9.30am, 2 from Standard 2 and the rest from Standard 3. Coach Ghazali was very patient with all the new swashbucklers who were more interested to use the swords as light sabres ala jedis.

As the fencing thingy was all new to me as well, I stayed for the briefing session by the coach as well.  The coach started by introducing the types of swords used for fencing which are the foil, sabre and epee. At first glance they all looked the same to me until the coach started to point out the differences. This was followed by an introduction of the body parts i.e. torso where hits can be made to secure points. Subsequently, other terms were introduced with a demonstration of what they are like parry, lunge, extend, en garde(french for on guard), allez (french for go), french grip etc etc.

The terms seemed to be overwhelming at first but I suppose one will get used to it as time passes. CP seemed to take it in and is looking forward to next week's session and an idea of what needs to be done and prepared in  advance.