NYC Grand Prix Information

[Craig]

The NYC Grand Prix for Men's Sabre, Women's Foil, and Women's Sabre (also the World Championships for Team Women's Foil and Team Women's Sabre) will have real-time results at: http://www.nycgrandprixoffencing.com/

Look for some event reports on the main news site: http://www.fencing101.com/ to be posted at night/early morning during the event.

Cheers!
Craig

[whtouche]

I'd say interview Mariel Zagunis. As the newest member of the olympic team...I don't know what to ask her but there's got to be some sort of interesting story there.

[fencerontheline]

Also- Golubinsky is gonna be there- he's kinda my role model(along with my coach- Romankov)- the'd both be good to interview.

[whtouche]

There's already several interviews (or several parts of one interview) with golubitsky up on this site.

[fencerontheline]

I'd seen that- it's an interesting interview- but, there's always more to be learned. Anyhow, I think I'm going to talk to him myself, as he's the friend of a lot of friends of mine(i.e.The russian coaching posse).

[prototoast]

If I were you, I'd try to interview some sabre and epee fencers. A lot of the stuff on this site is very foil-centric, and it would be nice to balance things out a little.

[wflaschka]

For Golubitsky -- perhaps you can hit him up for the "lesson plan" or outline from his Texas class. If not the details, then just abstractly what was covered. This could be worked up into an article, or just blatted online. Either way, any info would be helpful.

[whtouche]

I agree that most of the information on this site, or at least alot of it, is foil-centric. There was an interview with an epeeist a small while back, but most of the articles pertain specifically to foil (marching attacks, etc).
I don't grudge the site or updaters any for this, as it seems to be a result of the fact that the main contributors to the site are mainly foil competitors/coaches. If there were more sabre fencers/coaches etc who were willing to step up and contribute as walter and craig do, Im sure it would balance out and they would appreciate the help. The same goes for epee.

Tho I must say the coverage, as far as news etc, does seem pretty well balanced and inclusive.

[oiuyt]

I'm not sure about how high the quality of any epee interviews would likely be coming out of this weekend's world cup given that the weapons being fenced are MS, WS, and WF only.... :)

Sabre, on the other hand, should be manageable.

-B :)

[Sabresque]

Men's sabre interviews, even. I'd really like to see Covaliu interviewed.

[prototoast]

I'm not sure about how high the quality of any epee interviews would likely be coming out of this weekend's world cup given that the weapons being fenced are MS, WS, and WF only....

Sabre, on the other hand, should be manageable.

-B

Just a trivial detail!

[Craig]

I agree that most of the information on this site, or at least alot of it, is foil-centric. There was an interview with an epeeist a small while back, but most of the articles pertain specifically to foil (marching attacks, etc).
I don't grudge the site or updaters any for this, as it seems to be a result of the fact that the main contributors to the site are mainly foil competitors/coaches. If there were more sabre fencers/coaches etc who were willing to step up and contribute as walter and craig do, Im sure it would balance out and they would appreciate the help. The same goes for epee.

Tho I must say the coverage, as far as news etc, does seem pretty well balanced and inclusive.

Thanks, and very on point.

I am a foilist who has dabbled with sabre - mostly in the pre-electric days. When I went to college, I focused totally on foil and have only in the past couple of years fenced some sabre bouts at club (which really helped my foil timing!)

I have no clue on epee.

For anything other than foil, I would be giving bad advice on tactics and strategies as the current games in both are outside of my sphere of expertise.

Craig

[ra2000a]

please interview aldo montano!!! ill be at the fencing tournament also on thursday keeping score. Aldo montano is a great fencer. he should deserve to have an interview!

[Craig]

First story: http://www.fencing101.com/content/view/256/2/

*(&(*& 28.8 connection...

[Mihail]

Does anyone have the bout-by-bout results of U.S. against France? Thank you so much.

[Epeecurean]

Great stuff Craig! & congrats to US men's sabre!

[Army Fencer]

WOW! Congrats to Men's Sabre. We have a real shot at gold in August!

[Craig]

http://www.fencing101.com/index.php?...sk=view&id=258

[Craig]

Updated coverage of the Women's Team Foil and Women's Team Sabre events are at www.fencing101.com on the front page.

Match update: Keeth Smart vs. Pozdniakov at 11am.

[prototoast]

Updated coverage of the Women's Team Foil and Women's Team Sabre events are at www.fencing101.com on the front page.

Match update: Keeth Smart vs. Pozdniakov at 11am.

Looks like Smart and Rogers lost, so the US is down to Lee and Igoe.