Trip to Tauber

Just a few fotos from the biggest fencing centre in Europe in tauberbischofsheim, where I went today to watch the german nationals. It was a great experience!

I thought Tauberbischofsheim was a city..but it's actually a small village!

Entering...

It has 3 main fencing halls and one for the finals (see further down).

London calling!

 

The finals hall.

And yes- a fencer's pizza -you can cut it using your saber/epee/foil -no just kidding!

My artwork- silver fencing jewellery

It all started when I thought it would be great to wear a fencing pin but I figured it's very hard to get one, so I thought why not make my own as I am a hobby-jeweller. And here it is!

My lunging epeeist!

The pin was a great success among my fencing friends and I made some more. They are all handmade in sterling silver 925.

My second design is the following, in a salute position:

This one is larger than the previous-about twice the size.

If you are interested you can contact me for orders and details here or at blackrose_86@hotmail.com

errr happy fencing easter!

As I am on easter vacation again away from my town I don't have many fencing news. Fenced again yesterday at my home town-club. Did lots of bad fleches where my epee went straight passed the opponent giving them easy points... uff... Suffice to say that I lost 6-10 to an overweight 40 year old mum! Then I won 10-9 to a girl that has been fencing for 6 years, so that boosted my self-esteem again a bit. All in all I did badly though, I parried a lot of her lunges without reposting and played more defensively than ever. I wasn't so confident so I let a lot of good moments pass and that is really irritating!

I got corrected by a very good coach recently on many technical things but I am sure I will make the same mistakes again unless I get repeatedly corrected upon them ( shifting my weight to the back leg, keeping the shoulder high up, leaning forwards while lunging, not doing an explosive enough attack). It is all nice in theory but when it comes to doing it I am not self-aware enough  to correct myself.

Anyway, I am currently working on some fencing jewellery! I will upload fotos shortly!!!