Desert Fencing Academy

Hi Fencers.

I have lots of information to share with you all.

We are fencing this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at DFA, Nov. 6, 7 and 8.

There is no fencing at COD Tuesday, Nov. 11 as it is Veterans Day and COD is closed.

We will fence Thursday, Nov. 13 at DFA, but not Friday night, Nov. 14 as we have J.O. quals at Harvey Mudd College Saturday, Nov. 15.

We will be closed on Thanksgiving, Nov. 27 and closed on Friday, Nov. 28, but if you want to fence Friday night let me know and we can fence and we will be open on Saturday, Nov. 29

For December, we’ll close early on Friday, December 5 because we have a Saturday tournament at Harvey Mudd on December 6.

For the Christmas holiday, DFA will be closed December 22-January 5.

Now, here is the exciting news. SCP (Southern California Pentathlon) is putting on a pentathlon camp for junior pentathletes. It’s Mary Jo Bullock and Lorraine Price who are organizing this event, the riding will be at Michael Cintas’ equestrian center in Rancho Mirage and the fencing will be done at DFA December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and January 2 starting at 1:30 p.m. If any one wants to help with this, please let me know.

So, it’s more than likely, if you are an epee fencer and want lessons and want to fence, you may do so during this camp.

On Saturday, December 3, we are holding a Junior Pentathlon competition and the fencing event will be at COD. It will be run much like what we did for the junior pentathlon event in June at COD. I’ll need help with this one, like with the event in June. We’ll need referees and scorekeepers. We may use two grounded strips for this. If we do go with grounded strips, we will have to lay the strips in the gym at COD on Friday night and then take them up after fencing on Saturday. So, I can use everyone’s help with this event in December/January. I will send you all update info emails on this as I get them.

Thanks,

-Leslie