Adult Beginner
Courses Full

Since 1996, the fencing Academy had run unique classes especially designed for adult fencers with a teaching syllabus and exams. when the academy introduced these classes, all other clubs accepted new beginners as an add on to normal training session. This was the first time a dedicated course was run for beginners. With the huge success of these classes many clubs in London and across the Uk have been trying to make available some sort of classes for beginners. With the flood of classes available 2005 was the first year where Academy Beginners classes for Adults were not run at full capacity.

However, fencers and beginners are now coming to see the difference between a properly constructed course and either a casually run or commercially run course. Therefore Academy classes are now getting back to full capacity again giving best real chance for beginners to improve further and develop on after the courses.

Musketeers Cup
Autumn 2005

Hussain Sadiq claims his 3rd title : At the Last musketeers Cup for 2005 Hussain Sadiq clashed with Calypso Varotsis in the finals in the presence of over 50 fencers, parents and spectators.

This was the largest musketeers Cup event so far with Level 2 full. Other winners were Dylan Bogoevski for level 2, Guy Cabal for level 1 junior and Mossy Wittenberg for level 1 senior.

Silver Medal
@ Durham Junior Champs

Raelle Francis preparing for the nationals: In her first age-group open Raelle Francis Shows her skills to all the top fencers in her age group. On Saturday 24th September she took part in the Durham Junior Foil Championships. She has little competition experience but a great deal of skill. So she was able to improve with every match.

In the semi finals she was against seed no.2 - one of London’s best fencers and trained by the national coach – she beat her 10-4 with half the time to spare.

Ladder Cup Challenge
Girls on Top

Rachel Kwok at 16 wins cup for second time: As the event went under way Narcissa Ramich looked strong and unstoppable. Rachel Kwok was right behind her, but was unable to catch up. Half way through Rachel wake up to her form and showed her superior fitness. On the other hand Narcissa was struggling to keep up with Rachel's form. Between them they dominated the top.

Another girl was a star of Level 1. Avril Noon Makes it all the way to 3rd place. A fantastic result for her and the girls taking all top three spots.

Musketeers Summer Training Camp

Junior Fencers and young musketeers in The New Forest: A weeklong training with top class coaching, dieting, fitness and training programme for every individual fencer brought about the best camp results ever with 41 personal best results smashed.

Some of the young fencers are making a huge leap over their older and more advanced team mates. Well done. For more details see your latest report.

Blades Summer BBQ Picnic

Fencers in the woods! Sherwood Forest?! : A quality time escaping the congestion and pollution of London. Sunshine, clear skies and a terrific BBQ was in waiting for the relaxed off-the-pist fencers. For the first time the addition of children attendees made it more like an Academy family outing. The games were more challenging, the walk in the woods was soothing, and the ice cream was timely.

Norfolk Open

Andrea Varotsis Top 8 in senior open: The Academy team took part at Norfolk Open. This is where Andrea Varotsis is starting to find a stronghold. With his second quarter final placing in a senior open, this is a turning point. The results were as follows. This was also David Knott's best Result so far.
06 Andrea Varotsis
07 Aladdin Sadiq
34 David Knott
41 Jon Gal
53 Dean Kelly

Gold & Bronze - U10 Championships

Girls winning Gold & Bronze : The girls are continuing to gain ground in the Musketers Club now setting a strong foot when they squared up for a bout against other clubs. Results below.
01 virginia Ambrosio (Gold)
03 Chloe McClay (Bronze)
05 Alfie Show & Sofia McGinty
06 William Sanders & Alexia Van-Moorsel
07 Nilofer Edmonds
08 Daniel Lake
11 Dylan Bogoevski
13 Christian James

Musketeers Cup
Summer 2005

Another challenge of will and stamina: The young musketeers who won were as follows.
L3 Hussain Sadiq (Gold)
L3 Calypso Varotsis (silver)
L2 Alfie Shaw (1st)
L2 Sophia Kazmi (2nd)
L1 Daniel Lake (1st)
L1 Mossy Wittenburg (2nd)

Blades Club Pool Party

Fencers challenge the balls : A big turn-out to one of Blades Club's many social events. It attracted many keen members as well as some ex members. It was also a night to mingle across different levels of fencers. Level 1 fencers need not fear approaching a Level 4 fencer. Everyone was approachable, everyone was jolly and all had a good knees up time. .: More :.

Silver Medal
National Qualifier - London

Andrea Varotsis wins Silver : Only two points separated Andrea from a gold Medal where he conceded to James Hoggarth. He won four matches 5-0. Rachel Kwok was the other fencer winning 1 match with a 5-0 score. the rest of results were as follows:
02 Andrea Varotsis
07 Rachel Kwok
13 Jon Gal
17 David Knott

Raelle Francis, Emma kelly, Virginia Ambrosio, Chloe McClay

Musketeers Cup
Spring 2005

The girls sweep the board: At the Spring Musketeers Cup, the girls took 1st places in all the four available categories. After four years of concerted effort to bring about more successful girls in the Musketeers. This is a solid sign that these efforts are starting to bear fruit.

Many congratulations to the winning fencers and more training for the rest of competitors.

Narcissa Ramich, Rachel Kwok & Joel Cooper

Ladder Cup
Spring 2005

Rachel Kwok wins the cup at the age of 15. 2nd Narcissa Ramich
3rd Joel Cooper.

Musketeers In action

Musketeers Cup
Winter 2005

Winners:
L3: Raelle Francis
L2: Oliver Kelly
L1: Nicolas Wolf

Musketeers Boys & Girls

Musketeers New Year
Dinner & Ice skating

It was a great day of activity where children across levels 1, 2 and 3 socialised and got to know each other. After an exhausting afternoon, the party settled for dinner at the famous Khan Restaurant of Bayswater.

Many lost their shyness and found a new friend.