We still have a few open slots at our Pre-Nationals camp next week.
This fencing day camp will be coached by Aaron Kandlik and Eric Soyka. Anyone participating at Summer Nationals is welcome. Students should be prepared for multiple private lessons, tactical situations, as well as a lot of bouting.
The Camp will run from 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM. Please pre-register if you plan on attending.
Please check askFRED.net or call/email us for more info.
The Michael Marx clinic this past weekend was awesome! For those of you who missed the event, we will have DVDs available. Michael packed in our weekend with a ton of great fencing information, from what motivates you to how do you prepare your action. We also worked on finger development drills, problem solving, and how to attack. For those of you who missed the event this year, we will be trying to bring him out again next year. Make sure you are ready for it!
Here are some photos from the event:
Big thanks to Tim Morehouse for pointing this out and posting the link on his blog. Pretty awesome if you ask me, if only your opponent would turn to smoke and dust after you defeat them!
MTV “VS” fencers from Yvette Paxinos on Vimeo.
We will be closed Monday 5/31 in honor of Memorial Day.
Hey Everyone!
Pomme de Terre is coming up fast make sure you register on askFRED.net! We will be sending quite a few fencers out to this event. If you have any questions on hotel info, or if you are looking for someone to room with talk to Jeff or Eric and we will try to help you as best we can. Classes that weekend (June 18-20) will be cancelled as all our coaching staff will be attending this event.
Classes in Poughkeepsie are cancelled today. New Windsor class is still on for tonight.
Did you catch the Article in the Poughkeepsie Journal last Thursday, April 15, 2010? In the Sports Section on page 6C, there is a picture and a small article about our Jr & Cadet Fencers qualifiing for Summer Nationals!
We’d like to see more of this coverage of our sport and fencers. If you could take a moment to call or email the Sports Editor, Dan Peitrafesa, at 845-437-4849 or dpietraf@poughkeepsiejournal.com and let him know that you support local fencers.
Summer National Qualifiers were held Sunday at Vassar College. We had a great turnout and would like to thank everyone who came out and fenced. We would also like to congratulate those fencers who qualified to fence at Summer Nationals;
C & under Men’s Foil
Russell Brearley – 1st Place
Dan Raven (Marist) – 2nd Place
Dan McCarthy – 3rd Place
D & under Men’s Foil
David Amrani (Marist) – 2nd Place
Russell Brearley – 3rd Place
C & under Men’s Saber
Ted Nalesnik – 1st Place
Tristan Dubin – 3rd Place
D & Under Men’s Saber
Ted Nalesnik – 1st Place
Tristan Dubin – 2nd Place
We would also like to congratulate James Dolan, Bob Nilsen, & Ian Shultis for their participation in the qualifiers.
Y14 & Cadet Qualifiers were held in March at CDFS
Jacob Shultis – Y14 Men’s Epee – 1st Place
Russell Brearley – Y14 Men’s Foil – 1st Place
James Dolan – Y14 Men’s Foil – 2nd Place
Jacob Shultis – Y14 Men’s Foil – 3rd Place
Jacob Shultis – Cadet Men’s Epee – 1st Place
Russell Brearley – Cadet Men’s Foil – 2nd Place
James Dolan – Cadet Men’s Foil – 3rd Place
Tristan Dubin – Cadet Men’s Saber – 2nd Place
This years Summer Nationals are being held in Atlanta, GA. We will be traveling down as a club to support all of our fencers who qualified. Stay tuned to the Blog and the Newsletter for more information over the coming weeks! While at Summer Nationals you’ll be able to follow all the action on twitter.com/PHXcenter
Results for March 21 – 28, 2010
3/21 – Prise de Fer Boys Super Youth Circuit (SYC)
Russell Brearley – Y14 Men’s Foil – 24th
Russell earned National Points at this event!
3/27 – Woodstock Open
Jenna Gorab (Marist) – Women’s Epee – 1st
Dominic Saccento (Marist) – Men’s Epee – 10th
Ben Pozar (Marist) – Men’s Epee – 13th
Sarah Black (Marist) – Women’s Saber – 1st
Ian Rumrill (Marist) – Men’s Saber – 3rd
Shane Steinert (Marist) – Men’s Saber – 4th
Brianna Rosamilia (Marist) – Women’s Foil – 2nd
David Amrani (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 3rd
Dan Raven (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 4th
Dan McCarthy – Men’s Foil – 5th
Michael Schepis – Men’s Foil – 6th
Calvin Dinio – Men’s Foil – 7th
Jonathan Porras (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 8th
Bob Nilsen – Men’s Foil – 9th
Sam English (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 12th
John Matcovich (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 13th
The Phoenix Center’s fencers did very well this past weekend qualifying all of our fencers for Y14 and U16 events at the 2010 Summer National Championships. The qualifiers were held up in Schenectady at Capital District Fencing School. Participants from our club included Russell Brearley, James Dolan, Jacob Shultis, and Tristan Dubin.
Jacob Shultis qualified for Y14 Men’s Epee and Foil. Jake also qualified for U16 Men’s Epee.
James Dolan and Russell Brearley both qualified for Y14 and U16 Men’s Foil.
Tristan Dubin qualified for U16 Men’s Saber.
We are very proud of our fencers and encourage them to train hard as Summer Nationals approaches. The competition will be tough there, but if we keep working smart and keep working hard we will do well.
The Div 2, Div 3, and Team Qualifiers will take place on April 18, 2010. Fencers must be 13 or older to participate in the Div 2/3/Team qualifier. Div 3 fencers must be rated D or lower at the time of the qualifier, Div 2 fencers must be rated C or lower at the time of the qualifier, and the Team Qualifier is for all teams from the same club who wish to fence at Summer Nationals.
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