01-03-2007, 07:33 PM
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| is the fencers club a good club??
is the fencers club a good club for epee iam trying to find a good club in nyc | 
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01-03-2007, 09:18 PM
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| Yes. On a side note, lrn 2 spel.
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01-03-2007, 09:20 PM
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| new york athletic club is also good | 
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01-04-2007, 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer  Yes. On a side note, lrn 2 spel. | Not so much spelling, as capitalization and punctuation. He (she) only incorrectly spelled one word (iam is presumably not referring to a poetic foot, though even then it would be misspelled, but rather to 'I am'). Of course, it's still awfully hard to read.
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01-04-2007, 12:29 AM
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| I just started at the Fencers Club. I like it a lot.
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01-04-2007, 02:16 AM
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Originally Posted by keropie Not so much spelling, as capitalization and punctuation. He (she) only incorrectly spelled one word (iam is presumably not referring to a poetic foot, though even then it would be misspelled, but rather to 'I am'). Of course, it's still awfully hard to read. | I thought he was trying to say "now" in Latin.
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01-04-2007, 09:53 AM
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| That's a possibility...
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01-04-2007, 01:15 PM
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| fencer's club is the strongest foil and sabre club in NYC but NYAC is definetely the strongest epee club.
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01-04-2007, 01:39 PM
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| Cool....then I am in the right place to do what I'm doing....
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01-04-2007, 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by AndrewH fencer's club is the strongest foil and sabre club in NYC but NYAC is definetely the strongest epee club. | I'd argue that NYAC has more of the top male epeeists, while FC has more of the top women's epeeists. | |
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01-04-2007, 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by rocky I'd argue that NYAC has more of the top male epeeists, while FC has more of the top women's epeeists. | Don't underrate Team Hurley. They have 2 of our Senior World Team members.
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01-04-2007, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by RebelFencer Don't underrate Team Hurley. They have 2 of our Senior World Team members. | But not particularly convenient from NYC.
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01-04-2007, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by oiuyt But not particularly convenient from NYC.
-B | True. I was just going with the inevitable branch/jack about which club has the most top fencers, etc. Plus, I find it funny that there is actually a Team Hurley. Just thinking ahead.
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01-04-2007, 05:01 PM
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| Note that their mother has competed on the team in recent years as well, to make it a real team eligable for events at Summer Nats. | |
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01-04-2007, 06:17 PM
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| Also note that the USFA has a requirement that clubs have 10+ registered members. Quite possible that they fail that criteria. Whether or not they've been allowed to compete, and regardless of how often that constraint has actually been enforced (or not) in the past.
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01-04-2007, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueRabbit is the fencers club a good club for epee iam trying to find a good club in nyc | It's the best in the world. | |
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01-04-2007, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Miglin It's the best in the world. | Unless you've secretly defined some metric other than competitive achievement and ranked all the clubs in the world by it, or unless a lot of really really good people at FC fence for countries other than the USA, you're wrong. The best US women's epeeist is Courtney Hurley, ranked 18th in the world, and the best men's epeeist is Kelsey, at 10th in the world. Notice that France has 3 of the top 10 men's epeeists, by comparison, so probably some club in France is a lot better than FC (since France has this super-duper nationalized training system where everybody trains together.).
That said, it's insanely good, certainly possibly the best in the US. (I don't fence epee, so I'm not up on that. It's just easy to disprove a statement like that with some perusal of FIE rankings.) | |
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01-04-2007, 10:40 PM
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| The Fencers Club is a great club.
The statement that is "the best in the world" is a little presumptious.
But, if you think about the great clubs in the world: Tauber, Mangiorotti's, Sherma in Rome, Melun (outside Paris), Boisse's place, etc. some of them focus primarily on one weapon which makes the case for FC as one of the better all-around clubs more appropriate. Certainly in the US, where it probably is the best overall.
BONUS QUESTION: What US club is the only one with two current World Champions? Hint: they are in two different weapons, age groups and genders.
Back on topic. Yes, go there for epee. They have some of the best epee fencers and it is probably a better place to absorb fencers at all levels than the NYAC.
Kornel is a fantastic epee coach if you can get him.
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01-05-2007, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by piste off BONUS QUESTION: What US club is the only one with two current World Champions? Hint: they are in two different weapons, age groups and genders. | Oh, that is easy - FAP -- with Delia Turner and Graham Wicas  | |
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01-05-2007, 03:13 PM
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| Uhm, OFA has Ed Korfanty and Becca Ward, both reigning world champions.
And I think FC is home to Emily Cross, Caroline Vloka, Dagmara Wozniak, and Paul Apostol, all of whom are current world champions (Caroline and Dagmara in team events).
US clubs with at least 1 current world champion:
FC (Apostol, Cross, Vloka, Wozniak)
OFA (Korfanty, Ward (x4))
FAP (Turner, Wicas)
Team Hurley (Hurley, C.)
Nellya (Jacobson, J.)
??? (Lovejoy)
Am I missing anyone? Anyone know at which club Curtis Lovejoy trains?
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