Clubs in South Florida

[Epictetus]

Friend of mine lives in Pompano Beach, right above Ft Lauderdale, and has been trying to find a place to start fencing. Anyone know of any decent clubs down there?

[Drifter]

Friend of mine lives in Pompano Beach, right above Ft Lauderdale, and has been trying to find a place to start fencing. Anyone know of any decent clubs down there?

Never been there, no idea what their like but:

3rd Street Fencing Academy
217 NE 3rd Street
Pompano Beach, Florida 33060

http://thirdstreetfencing.tripod.com/index.html

Also you might try the usfencing.org divisions pages, that's where I found the above club.

[HDG]

Friend of mine lives in Pompano Beach, right above Ft Lauderdale, and has been trying to find a place to start fencing. Anyone know of any decent clubs down there?

Hi again Epictetus; this website and the USFA website both have pages which list clubs regionally. There are 3 or so clubs in Broward county, and at least one in Miami.

[Mergs]

You mean any that are still standing?

[HDG]

You mean any that are still standing?

Dade and Broward counties came through pretty much okay; Palm Beach county -- where there are also a number of clubs -- got it pretty bad from both Frances & Jeanne.

[fence1848]

Hurricanes are overrated. I'm sorry to anyone who has really been hurt by them, but both Jeanne and Frances passed over me. Jeanne was still a Category 1 hurricane when it hit us, but it didn't even knock out power at the trailer park down the street. If it can't do that, I don't think we can really call it a hurricane.

[tallntender]

Broward Community College has strong competitors. I don't know whether they teach beginners well.

[mollusk]

Hurricanes are overrated. I'm sorry to anyone who has really been hurt by them, but both Jeanne and Frances passed over me. Jeanne was still a Category 1 hurricane when it hit us, but it didn't even knock out power at the trailer park down the street. If it can't do that, I don't think we can really call it a hurricane.

Jeanne did very little up in Gainesville even though it packed much stronger winds than Frances. We had 70+ mph gusts with Jeanne and only low 60 mph gusts with Frances. What did us in with Frances is that we had a lot of very weak trees that hadn't seen strong winds since March 1992 (the so-called Storm of the Century). A lot of big (and also hollow) water oaks came crashing down and took out houses and powerlines with them. Because I pay to have my trees taken out on my property (and the properties that I lease out) when they are sick, I and my tenants had absolutely no problems other than power outages with either storm.

Tomorrow I'm goin out to Eglin AFB in the Florida panhandle to talk to some folks that I'm working with on a project. They got absolutely waxed by a powerful Cat 3 storm in Ivan. They also got clobbered by Opal a few years back. I don't think they would share your view that hurricanes are over-rated. I also know a lot of folks that survived Andrew and they don't take hurricanes lightly either. The roughly 2000 Haitians that died when Jeanne was only a tropical storm might also want to argue with you as well.