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Barwell Cup =========== We won! Congratulations to Chris, Jo, Joel and David - Chris and Jo also took the individual prizes. (Apologies for the brief message - my ear's playing up). Handy Hint ========== This was posted on www.fencingforum.com by one of the bFA's senior armourers. "In my opinion people tend to concentrate too much about lowering the spring pressure to the limit at both foil and epee. At both weapons it's very rare that not to bend the blade when you hit and that takes rather more than the 500/750 gram pressure required to compress the spring. A smooth action is more important than the minimum pressure. The other thing that people don't realise is that an out of spec bodywire has more impact than a heavy spring. This is easiest to demonstrate at epee but similar effects occur at foil. If you take a standard box plug in 2 epees and depress the tips simultaneously you should get a double. However if you put a variable resistor in one line and slowly turn it up there comes a point at which you get a single light but both the weapons work correctly when tested individually. From memory this happens at about 80 ohms. I see many bodywires at about this resistance in competition. Fortunately it's the owners problem and only counts against them. Otherwise we'd have to have more equipment controls than we do. The cure? Loosen and retighten the screws holding the wire into the pins, and any other screw forming part of the contact." Something to do on Boxing Day, methinks. Dates for your diary ==================== These are now up on the wbe site 2004 - Senior 11th January SE Epee and Sabre Meopham,Kent 10/11th Jan Cambridge Open Cambridge 17th/18th Jan Aldershot Open 24th Jan Corble Cup Qualifying / Women's Brentwood 1st Feb Surrey Epee and Sabre Epsom College 7th/8th Feb Slough Open BRACKNELL 21st Feb Hampshire Open 29th February SE Intermediate Foil 13th March Scotish International Edinurgh 13th March Invicta Open Canterbury 21st March Surrey Novices/Intermediate Epee /Foil 10th April Birmingham International (Open) 8th May Ridley Martin (Intermediate Open Sabre) Stratford-upon-Avon 15th May Isle of Wight OPen 12th June Redhill One Hit Epee (Open) Epsom College 20th June SE Foil 26th June Miller-Hallet (Epee Open, with team event) Hendon 3rd July (Provisional) CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Dulwich College (Provisional) 10th July NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS RAF Cosford 2004 - Junior 20th March Eton LJPS 2004 - Veteran 13th March Veteran's Championships En fin ====== We re-start on the 8th - Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Remember to over do i over Christmas so they'll be more to work off in the New Year. Roger _______________________________________________ Sfc site list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.firstinternetservices.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/sfc
