Guest Post by Annamaria Lu The past few weeks, this blog has published a few articles about refereeing. Mary Griffith also produced a post-Nationals write up. All of them have provided different perspectives on refereeing fencing. After Nationals ended, I contacted The Fencing Coach and offered to share my perspective as a new referee. I…
Diego Occhiuzzi is a really good saber fencer. He took a Silver Medal in the London 2012 Olympics. He is also the Luis Suarez of fencing. Here are my favorite Diego Occhiuzzi moments: Role model. This is how it’s done.
A very simple post today to answer a very simple, trivial question: When a referee makes his/her “En Garde! Ready? Fence!” calls, should s/he very the cadence? For many of you, this is a “duh” answer, but for others, it might not be. Never hurts to clarify. I’ve heard multiple opinions from multiple referees, so…
Originally posted on Leland Guillemin:
The 2014 World Championships were held in Kazan, Russia from the 15th to the 23rd of July. The Senior Men’s Epee final match was between Kyoungdoo Park and Ulrich Robeiri who fence for Korea and France, respectively. Both fencers had a very tough road in the quarter, and semi-finals. Park…
Disclaimer, I’m not a statistician. Not even close. I’m so, so sorry to any of you who are for my lack of rigor. The prediction here is based on the commonly-used Elo system, which tracks competitor performance in other sports like baseball, soccer, and chess. I threw together a program to calculate the odds of…
It’s almost as easy to find refs kvetching about reffing as it is to find fencers kvetching about refs. If you hang out with a lot of refs it’s probably even easier. And it’s easy to quit reffing. It’s easy to see it as a thankless job – standing on concrete for 20 hours straight…
Dear Fencing Officials Commission: A new policy will be enacted on September 1, 2014 wherein referee ratings will be evaluated and altered according to national activity. My referee ratings predate the cut-off years and are subject to degrading or rescinding. Rather than be subject to a perfunctory system with which I do not agree, I…
Originally posted on Leland Guillemin:
? Always room for improvement ? Off-Season Preparation I often get asked what I do when I’m not training during the fencing season, and I urge you to take a stab at what it might be. If you said, “eating an Oreo filled pie baked inside a Turtle Skor ice…
Originally posted on See Hannah Fence:
During the months when there are not a lot of tournaments, it can be easy to lose momentum and enthusiasm for training. I went through a period recently where I felt like I was getting into a bit of a rut, but after a vacation I was refreshed and…
