Friday, 22 December 2017

To all our fighters and friends....
Have a wonderful Christmas and a really good time !


We are looking forward to see you all fit as a fiddle back on the fencing piste in 
2018 ! 

We wish you a healthy, enjoyable and successful new year !

(First training session will be on Friday 5th January 2018 at 8pm in Oranmore. See you then...) 

Monday, 30 October 2017

CFC club championship
Our epee ladies did a new club pool round on Friday 20thOct.2017  ....
... and Hannah (left), our ladies team captain,  made it again !    CONGRATS !
Left to right : Hannah Taylor, Nicole Bolte, Saoirse Moore

Sunday, 20 August 2017

CFC club championship
One of the best club fights we had in the CFC so far.... !
 On the 18th Aug 2017 in the usual bout over 15 hits Hannah Taylor (left) and Saoirse Moore went to their limits - and it was sooo tight ! And at the end :
Saoirse is our new club champion in ladies epee !!! 

 The club championship trophys.

Have a look who visited our club last Monday !
What a feeling -
for one evening we were the best fencing club in Ireland !!!       ;-)

Our club members on our training session last Monday 14th August 2017 - absolutely proud and honored by the friendly visitors 
in the background (standing between Ciaran and me).....

Who is it ?

 1.) Ricarda Multerer

German Champion Ladies Epee 2017 , 2013 (picture) , 2012.
5th with the German Team Ladies Epee on the Olympics 2012 in London.

More under:
http://fie.org/fencers/Ricarda-MULTERER-12626/career

2.) Christoph Kneip

German Champion Mens Epee 2013 (picture) , 2011.
Winner (Gold Medalist) of the World Cup 2004 in Innsbruck (Austria).
Silver Medalist on World Cups 2003 (Paris) and 2014 (Tallin).
Bronze Medalist on World Cup 2004 (Puerto Rico). 

More under:
http://fie.org/fencers/Christoph-KNEIP-3651/career


 
 
Our raven abroad
Peter`s impressions from the World Championship Leipzig 2017

23rd July 2017: Peter Mundt - and some of his fencing club mates (Speyer, Germany) had a great day out watching the "big heads" on the WC 2017 in Leipzig (Germany). The atmosphere - as expected - really impressive. But the main thing :

 A chance to have a bit of a  "walk and talk" with your idols :
Our "raven" Peter (left) with the star of american fencing : Olympic foilist Race Imboden !
If you really don`t know who Race is (shame on you) - check it under

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Imboden
 



Saturday, 13 May 2017

CFC club championship
12th May 2017 : Nicole made it not easy - but Hannah succeeded !
Congrats !!!
After an exhausting match : Nicole Bolte (left) handed the trophy to Hannah Taylor.

Thursday, 11 May 2017

CFC club championship
On the 8th May 2017 Nicole challenged Holly for the ladies epee trophy...


... and won !      Congratulations !!!


Holly Taylor (left) and Nicole Bolte : Great fight - a pleasure to watch.

Sunday, 23 April 2017

CFC club championship
Our new CFC club champion for ladies epee :
Finally the trophy well deserved in her hand -
Congrats to Holly Taylor !


The ladies went into their first CFC pool round on the 10th April 2017. In really nice epee fights Holly finally made it  
- but surely the ladies will not wait too long to challenge her again...