The Jose Balcazar Tournament is the fourth annual unclassified competition at The Point Fencing club. On January 27 at 10 am registration will open for beginners, one year and under (or Fencing III) and close at 10:30. The winner of each years tournament is commemorated on a special display plaque. This is a very special tournament for the point, do not miss it! You may found the entry for last year’s one here. ...
The photo above is a snake preview of the 2007 The Point Calendar. This year the calendar has moved into the full-fledge digital era. Digital cameras and Mac were flying everywhere. Stay tuned, because this one is going to be very different from the 2005 and 2006 ones :)
Eight minutes and thirty-seven seconds was the fencing time of the semifinal between Peter Habala and David Lidow. By far, this bout was the best fencing at the Illinois Open. I ever seen in my two and half years of foil fencer. Everybody knew that this was the anticipated final. To impressive details: David’s point accuracy was from another world, Peter fleshing could cover in less than half a second around four lethal meters flying in the air. We were all speech less. The 64 tableau for the DE was totally skew since one fencer of my pool did not show up. This lead up to all A fencers to the same quarter. So after I was eliminate by Carla Esteva (A2002), she run into Peter Habala (A2006), and then Peter run into David Lidow (A2006). The other three quarters were not so nasty. Anyway, it was a memorable Illinois Open and I forgot my camera home. Oh, one last thing, the results can be found here. ...
The Illinois Open at CAAFC is coming (Feb. 25-26). You can check the registered fencers here. Preregistrations are still possible here here.
The Illinois Open is going to be on February 25 and 26. You can preregister at Ask Fred.