Fencing in Chinese-speaking countries?

[PeterGustafsson]

Ni Hao!

I have noticed that there several people here from the Sinophone world, and this post is mostly directed to them.

Anyway, I spend this summer in Shenzhen, southern Guangdong, in my parents-in-law´s place. I saw precious little fencing on TV (except unreal fly-in-the-air stuff) and none in reality. Considering that it is a large city - several million - and one of the wealthiest in PRC, one would expect that if one could find fencing anywhere in PRC, Shenzhen would be a good bet. No such luck. Basketball reigned supreme what I could see. This I find surprising, since the average woman was only somewhat taller than 150 cm, and I with my 174 cm towered as a near-giant. ;-)

I will return to PRC and HK sooner or later, so I wonder if somewhoe could help me with these qustions:

What is the HK/Shenzhen/Guangdong fencing scene like? Number of clubs, number of fencers, how to find clubs, relative weapon popularity, webpages, general info?

Any important info pertaining to fencing in the Chinese-speaking world in general?

Do HK fencers go to SZ or GD in general to compete? The other way around?

Zaijjien!

Peter Gustafsson

[mfp]

I'm not based in the PRC or HKSAR, but here are some possible leads:

On the PRC side, try contacting the Beijing Fenxing Fencing Club -- supposedly some of their former students set up a fencing club in Shenzhen.

info@fenxing.com.cn
http://www.fenxing.com.cn/en/

As for the HKSAR, the Hong Kong Amateur Fencing Association website is at:

http://www.hkafa.org.hk/index.html

There's also a (not very busy) HKU related fencing bboard at

http://www.hku.hk/fencing/wwwboard/wwwboard.html

Vendors often have good contacts -- "Esun" is a HK fencing equipment retailer. (Which I hope to have a chance to check out the next time I pass through Honkers).

http://www.esun.com.hk/

The Macao Amateur Fencing Association doesn't seem to have a web site, however their other contact info can be found listed on:

http://www.fie.ch/Federation/carnet/federation.htm