Sean and Gav bring you a bumper episode! Juniors need to take a back seat this time around so that they can get through all of the highs and lows of the recent international circuit. Gav had a blast watching Heidenheim, Sean is glad that one of the great Germans is back on form and neither is that impressed by... well you will have to listen and find out.

They also answer a couple of listener questions and have a quick chat about internet resources.

Finally, a BIG hello to our Patreon backers!

Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4988869

Support Us http://www.thefencingpodcast.com/support-us/

The Blog http://www.thefencingpodcast.com/the-blog/

We Love Fencing https://www.welovefencing.com

Better Fencer https://betterfencer.com

Bonn Men’s Foil Individual medal matches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_UkVTCAmyI

Bonn Men’s Foil Team final https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUA0J6qHXYU

Gdansk Women’s Foil individual playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExxyNLHL0-26XyFJKoefLqpK

Gdansk Women’s Foil team playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExyzmQfQib278sMVEETe8HV4

Heidenheim Men’s Epee individual playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExz9tSXiem4J_jfc1Qh6syy6

Heidenehim Men’s Epee team playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExxoedHZ4CcEZRldauXQYiJS

Barcelone Women’s Epee individual playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExzFVkDEI6678nRaDxG_442I

Barcelona Women’s Epee team playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExy64uLm-dsx99ZBe0s0iRS7

New York Women’s Sabre individual medal matches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCSnSfh4TCA

New York Women’s Sabre team medal matches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ob-aJhtzfc

Padua Men’s Men’s Sabre individual last few hits https://youtu.be/VMKHUwInj58

Legnano Women’s Epee ????

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Sean is currently in Paris for the annual Challenge Internationale de Paris. While there he managed to put together a special report from each round and caught up with Greg Massialas and Erwann Le Pechoux.

You canwatch the event here: http://evenementsescrime-ffe.fr/cip/competition/en-direct/

https://www.facebook.com/erwann.lepechoux?fref=ts

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Sean and Gav take you for a spin through recent Grand Prix results: from the epee in Doha, to sabre in Cancun.

Sean recommends you watch the Sabre, he was so impressed he takes back anything had he's said about the venue! Meanwhile Gav tips the Koreans for the rest of the Mens Epee season.

Before finishing the duo discuss what they like about athlete's us of social media.

(A couple of links were missed for part 1 and these are repeated below)

In case you missed the notes from part 1 here they are below.

• British Fencing loses its funding for the World Class Programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/38260939
• Laurence Halsted writes in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/may/19/olympic-athletes-speak-out-politics-social-issues-laurence-halsted-fencer-rio-games
• Rio fails to auction off its Olympic venues http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazil-government-run-rios-olympic-park-venues-44373342

• International Fencing Federation (FIE) results http://fie.org/results-statistic
• FIE Rankings http://fie.org/results-statistic/ranking
• Doha Grand Prix women’s epee finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awdusw0dvUM
• Doha Grand Prix men’s epee finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS13bPQ6FE0
• Cancun Grand Prix women’s sabre finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iod0kDTwQnE
• Cancun Grand Prix men’s sabre finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4luj4sMF10
• The Fencing Podcast on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thefencingpodcast/ Check out who we follow

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Happy New Year all - and welcome back. Another mammoth session this month split into 2. In part 1 we discuss the passing of the GB Team World Class Program. Sean talks to Laurence and we find out what Laurence did at University, take a look at his career and where he's going next.

Notes:

• British Fencing loses its funding for the World Class Programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/38260939
• Laurence Halsted writes in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/may/19/olympic-athletes-speak-out-politics-social-issues-laurence-halsted-fencer-rio-games
• Rio fails to auction off its Olympic venues

We also have a Reddit feeback thread.

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Welcome to Episode 4 part 1! After a marathon editing session we are finally ready let you hear Sean's discussion with Dave Baker: King of Spreadsheets, FIE Referee and newly minted appointee to FIE Commission for Promotion & Publicity. Congratulations Dave!
News roundup:
We find out what Yuki Ota is up to.
Stefano Cerioni leaves Russia.
We have a chat about Junior results, more on Fencing in exotic locations.

Links

Chris Heaps' music on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5dhnhziFBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0maiGgGrESs

Fencing - Qualification for Rio Facebook page

Yuki Ota - Fencing Visualised

FIE Structure and who's who

We have a look through the results:

• Orleans Womens Sabre: Individual & Teams
• Gyor Mens Sabre: Individual & Teams
• Buenos Aires Mens Epee
• Turin Mens and Womens Foil

Sean resists the urge to rant about a lack of streaming at an event while Gav doubles-down on saying something daft. There's been some surprise results recently and this presents the podcasters with a challenge when they choose their coolest fencer, who will they pick?

Fencing has been picked up by the official online Olympic Channel! And as part of the deal these guys have produced some "interesting" promo videos:

Race Imboden & Serge Golubitsky go a bit "9 1/2 weeks"
LeFort "finishes" Simon

Sean poses the question: what is beautiful fencing?

We don't think we will be able to squeeze another in till the new year so in the meantime:
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Sean and Gav take a look at recent results. We're in the immediate post Olympics world and starting to see some interesting trends. In addition our duo have heard about some recent coaching moves, we do live in interesting times.

Our search for the coolest fencer takes an unusual turn.

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In which Sean talks to Dan Kellner about US Fencing: how it changed so quickly and why it is the force in World Fencing today. We shout to Fencing Stuff in thanks over our logo and we look forward to part 2 (which will follow shortly).

Lucky listeners, here's part 2 of our second episode.

We take a brief look at the world Veterans Championships. Sean has an in-depth discussion on changes to sabre with Jon Salfield. We hear interesting news from the world of Women's Foil...

Somehow Sean sneaks in an extra piece of audio the about coolest fencer without Gav realising! (No epeeists!)

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We discuss the Rio Paralympics and interview silver medallist Piers Gilliver. We take a look at the recent start to the Junior Fencing Season ... Gav apologises for his lack of foreign language skills.   Our duo take a look a some recent retirements and coaching news.

Keep in touch, part 2 will follow shortly

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