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Announcements
by Dennis Duncan
Athlete Development:Fencing is usually considered a sport for individuals. But there are team competitions at most major tournaments. A team is defined as 3 fencers plus an alternate competing in a specific weapon. The coming Fencing season marks the start of the next 4 year cycle leading to the Year 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
During the coming season, more emphasis will be placed, at the club level, in training for team competitions.
This is also being done with an eye towards other Games, such as Jeux Canada Games, to be held in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland in 1999. The Western Canada Summer Games are slated for Prince Albert but at this time, it is unknown if fencing will be included.
The more we practice, the better our chances for victory. Pick your teams and talk with your Club coaches so that you can get an early start.
Officials:
This year, the SFA is initiating a program to develop more Fencing
officials in Saskatchewan. The program is designed to certify referees
at the "P" level and thence on to "N" level. Applicants will apprentice
under qualified "N" level referees at Saskatchewan tournaments during the
coming season.
If you are interested, contact Bert Gaudet, Technical Committee (Officials) at the following numbers, to obtain any information you may need to make your decision. The process will start with a letter of application directed to Bert. His postal address is also included below.
Bert Gaudet
951 Sanderson Crescent
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
S6V 6L2
Home phone: (306) 764- 0113
Work phone: (306) 764- 1521
FAX : (306) 764- 8886
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Who's Doing What
by Dennis Duncan
This month's gossip column will be short as everyone disappeared during the off season to recharge their batteries. But that just gives everyone the chance to swap stories when we meet again and take the chance to chat while catching our breath after those horrendous first practicesCongratulations to Todd and Tanya Gaudet on their Saskatoon wedding August 12, 1996. Another Saskatchewan Fencing dynasty in the making?
Erin is returning, with cowboy boots, from her summer job. But I have never heard of plastic long evening gloves. What possible good are they?
HE'S BACK. Tony III, the movie will be charging down the piste at a salle near you. He has been working out, to offset the onset of old age and too much lasagna, so don't be fooled; he is still called Speedy Vasquez for good reason.
What a coincidence? First Jonathon Moon continues on his bone breaking ways and then it resonates with Kirk Brecht. I don't want to be a sabreur mocking limp-wristed foilists. They might hit me with a straight (and stiff) arm.
That has been all that I have heard that is both relevant and fit to print. Or that doesn't initiate threats to fire bomb my residence when I mention drawing conclusions about parallel thought processes indicated by identical quotes.
For those thinking of participating in the new Italian dance craze, the vendetta, please put your letters, accusations and innuendoes in plain brown envelopes under the door. Anonymity guaranteed.
