Tracy Hurley is the candidate for USFA president and heading up "US Fencers For Change," a group of candidates that provide alternatives to the slate of candidates recommended by the nominating committee of the USFA.
In our audio interview, we spoke with Tracy Hurley about the US Fencers for Change and their platform.
Ioan Pop is the Technical Director for the International Fencing Federation (FIE).
Serge Timacheff of FencingPhotos.com caught up with Mr. Pop at the 2008 Junior and Cadet World championships to discuss the advances in fencing technologies that have brought us the "wireless" scoring systems and also discuss the newest changes to foil.
Schermaonline, the Italian fencing news site, has posted an interview with US Women's Sabre fencer Rebecca Ward. (Photo courtesy FencingPhotos.com)
Rebecca Ward is the 2006 Turin World Championship women’s saber gold medalist. She is the first fencer and likely she will remain the only one to win a triple crown by earning the Cadet, Junior, and Senior World Championship titles in one year (2006) at the incredibly young age of 16. She is home schooled and is ready to start her college education at Duke University this fall after the Olympic Games in Beijing.
At some point your weapon will break, and then you'll need to either fix it, buy a new one, or get someone else to repair it for you. The most cost-effective thing to do is to be able to perform at least minor repairs for yourself. Most repairs in foil and epee involve tightening the grips and replacing springs in the tip, but you can end up rewireing the electric blades as well.
Here are a few suggestions for tools that you should keep in your fencing bag to perform some of the regular maintenance and testing.
We now have word from from Switzerland and the meeting of the Commission d’Arbitrage on a clarification for the legality of low line attacks in sabre.
A recent video posted from the FIE stated that low line attacks were not valid because the point starting from a seconde (low line) guard was not threatening valid target. This statement generated quite a bit of response and concern as it was a major change in the interpretation of the attack and was issued during an Olympic year.
Ioan Pop is the Technical Director for the International Fencing Federation (FIE). 
Schermaonline, the Italian fencing news site, has posted an interview with US Women's Sabre fencer Rebecca Ward. (Photo courtesy 
