Fencing St. George Medical (Away)
So this was to be my first away match, and it was in Tooting, London. Not too bad a journey although we did have to get the train there rather than a coach - probably for the best in the end as it meant that we could all do what we wanted afterwards.
The match was meant to start at 2.30pm but it eventually got underway just after three…
…in a squash court…
…yes, a squash court…
…so lets do some elementary mathematics. Squash courts are 9.75m x 6.4m (Apparently), that gives a diagonal of about 11.7. Accounting for the width of a fencing piste at 1.5/2.0 metres that means that the far corners are unusable, so if we’re generous and take a metre off each end that leaves us with a piste 9m long. Piste’s are meant to be 14m long. It’s really hard to fence if you’ve got nowhere to retreat to and even more so when you’re not used to it.
Apart from that we did better overall than last time, coming in at 89-135. We did much better in Epee than before and a tiny bit better in foil. Unfourtuantly we scored slightly less in sabre but overall it was positive.
Good Hunting
That is probably true!
You may complain but I bet that was infinitely easier than the time I tried to play squash in a fencing hall.