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All good things must come to an end and this is also true of The Fencing Podcast. This is our final episode and, in truth, there is very little chat about actual fencing but we hope you enjoy it anyway. Special Thanks: To all of our Patrons and our sponsors Leon Paul. Without your support this podcast would never have been possible. To Michelle Golding for the logo and support - your help was much appreciated in getting the good ship Fencing Podcast afloat. To Chris Heaps whose banjo antics you hear in every spisode, many thanks! See you and your daughter on the circuit. To the French Federation, never fear our twitter desk will still be manned there will be GIFS! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS LISTENED OVER ALL THESE YEARS. WE WILL MISS YOU ALL.

Gav updates us on his travel plans and his vital contribution to the Games. Kate, Gav and Sean put their heads together to make their predictions for the Tokyo Olympics and find that they are, disconcertingly, often in agreement. We also find that the Prediction Game that we’re playing against each other brings out our worst competitive instincts. We’d love to hear your predictions and the thinking behind them (see the description below and email: thefencingpodcast@gmail.com) The team also reveal the other sports that they’re looking forward to watching.

This week Kate, Sean and Gav look back at their highlights of the Cadet & Junior World Championships in Cairo and look forward to the Olympic zonal qualifiers. Kate and Gav invent ASMR fencing commentary and Sean pays tribute to the late President of British Fencing, Keith Smith.\r\nSean also chats to Johnny Davis, the British team manager, prior to the European zonal qualifiers in Madrid.\r\nOur lovely sponsors: Leon Paul London - Iconic Fencing Equipment made in London\r\nJoin our equally lovely Patreon supporters and immediately become a better person: The Fencing Podcast is creating Podcasts and blogs | Patreon\r\nChoke by Sian Beilock: Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have to: Amazon.co.uk: Beilock, Sian: 8601200807233: Books\r\nKeith Smith obituary: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website (fie.org)\r\nAll the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos\r\n\r\nAll the results https://fie.org/competitions\r\n

Sean talks a load of foil (Kate and Gav get to chip in occasionally) as the action heads to Doha for the foil Grand Prix. The return of the game (foil, obviously) and while there were a lot of early departures, there were also a lot of familiar faces at the end of the day. Olympic places were decided, some big names miss out. Gav shares some horrifying mental images early in the episode so make sure you\'re sitting down. Good times and sad times for British Fencing.\r\nOur lovely sponsors: Leon Paul London - Iconic Fencing Equipment made in London\r\nDoha Foil Grand Prix finals: https://youtu.be/RHETRaerUyA\r\n

In this episode the team discuss a week of epee… well almost. It took several days for the final Epee world cup in Kazan to run! And as you’d expect in this era it was carnage. Gav gets very excited about the mens epee team final, quite right too. Kate even admits she watched some of it!\r\n\r\nAll the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos\r\nAll the results https://fie.org/competitions\r\nAnd you should definitely follow Dave Baker\'s Facebook page all about the qualification process https://www.facebook.com/FencingTokyo.\r\n

Episode 61: All The Sabre Dudes\r\nKate, Gav and Sean actually have some real, live fencing to talk about!! Budapest saw international fencing return with a men\'s and women\'s sabre World Cup and it was glorious. Everything you could have asked for including more Olympic qualification, some surprises, a few absentees, additional face masks and potentially some Olympic dress rehearsals. \r\nOur lovely sponsors: https://www.leonpaul.com/\r\nJoin our equally lovely Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4988869&fan_landing=true\r\nBudapest Women’s Sabre individual results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/151?tab=results\r\nBudapest Men’s Sabre Individual results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/160?tab=results\r\nBudapest Women’s Sabre Team results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/756?tab=results\r\nBudapest Men’s Sabre Team results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/827?tab=results\r\nBudapest Women’s Sabre individual YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXCsHCQQvA&list=PL_pQQho0KExzRCXBv1q1X2chu3nkCBLsq\r\nBudapest Men’s Sabre Individual YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOszmAsBrWs&list=PL_pQQho0KExzx_sLOVTnBf5ffyMS1NygH\r\nBudapest Women’s Sabre Team YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqb1nFNYdaY&list=PL_pQQho0KExwchEvT0L0t8eaUUrrU2vya\r\nBudapest Men’s Sabre Team YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBCF1eUmOU&list=PL_pQQho0KExx8A_BYE7qzUDM4g1vFcde3\r\nHave a look for The Fenced In Podcast and Japan Sport Stories wherever you listen to podcasts and track down Stro: The Michael D’Asaro Story for a fascinating documentary of a life well-lived.\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n

Good news! Fencing is back … of sorts. It’s almost a year to the day and so we’ve decided to get the gang back together again. Hurrah. Our lovely sponsors: https://www.leonpaul.com/ Join our equally lovely Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4988869&fan_landing=true Leon Paul & Brexit: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/17/shock-brexit-charges-are-hurting-us-say-small-british-businesses Upcoming competitions: https://fie.org/competitions

The gang are all together again and we’re edging towards the end of the Olympic qualification process which means some fencers will be celebrating guaranteeing their place in Tokyo while others will be heartbroken. Sean tracks the foil action from Cairo (men’s) and Kazan (women’s) as the team places are sorted out for the Olympics and some fencers do themselves the world of good for individual qualification. Kate gets very excited about the men’s sabre in Warsaw and finds her thing to have a minor rant about and Gav adds to the short list of fencing wizards Also, Gav gets a new follower on Instagram. You should follow him too. Plus, The Coolest Fencer on the Planet and what’s coming up next. Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul. Their support for The Fencing Podcast is immense https://www.leonpaul.com/ And to our equally lovely Patreon supporters, you keep the good ship Fencing Podcast afloat! Come join them: https://www.patreon.com/join/730440? Cairo men’s foil results (no live stream) Individual: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/138?tab=results Team: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/761?tab=results Warsaw men’s sabre: Individual finals: https://youtu.be/Hd2y1JSud90 Team finals: https://youtu.be/JX_B6aGf4LA Kazan women’s foil: Individual finals: https://youtu.be/OnEZtwiGP98 Team finals: https://youtu.be/jg3E7Rw4rUQ Follow Gav on Instagram, it will change your life @antifencer

The gang are all together again and we’re edging towards the end of the Olympic qualification process which means some fencers will be celebrating guaranteeing their place in Tokyo while others will be heartbroken. Sean tracks the foil action from Cairo (men’s) and Kazan (women’s) as the team places are sorted out for the Olympics and some fencers do themselves the world of good for individual qualification. Kate gets very excited about the men’s sabre in Warsaw and finds her thing to have a minor rant about and Gav adds to the short list of fencing wizards Also, Gav gets a new follower on Instagram. You should follow him too. Plus, The Coolest Fencer on the Planet and what’s coming up next. Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul. Their support for The Fencing Podcast is immense https://www.leonpaul.com/ And to our equally lovely Patreon supporters, you keep the good ship Fencing Podcast afloat! Come join them: https://www.patreon.com/join/730440? Cairo men’s foil results (no live stream) Individual: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/138?tab=results Team: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/761?tab=results Warsaw men’s sabre: Individual finals: https://youtu.be/Hd2y1JSud90 Team finals: https://youtu.be/JX_B6aGf4LA Kazan women’s foil: Individual finals: https://youtu.be/OnEZtwiGP98 Team finals: https://youtu.be/jg3E7Rw4rUQ Follow Gav on Instagram, it will change your life @antifencer

It’s [mostly] epee day here at Podcast towers. Sean & Gav talk about the recent epee competitions: Doha, Barcelona, Vancouver. That’s a lot of epee. The Fencing is great but there’s something bothering both of them, listen and find out what. And then there’s the Turin Grand Prix! Also some interesting stuff in the fencing news, a new film has entered production and Race Imboden has an Ask Me Anything on Reddit! Doha Epee Grand Prix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDjJGK1LPN8 Barcelona Womens Epee https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA40s4GODjkaJ9JeM0fBcdg/playlists Vancouver Mens Epee Individual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9w_PEzOZsE Teams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgjuhdgXYU Turin Foil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paZo-eu5wzU Fencer - a new film in production https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zoe-saldana-boards-fencing-movie-fencer-casey-affleck-producing-1279201 Race Imboden’s AMA on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Fencing/comments/f1qx37/hello_reddit_my_name_is_race_imboden_ask_me/

It's a bit late but in this episode, Sean and Gav are back from Paris with tales of daring and heroism (not their own). We cover all the action from Katowice (women's foil), Heidenheim (men's epee) and we mull over the results from the impossible to follow women's epee action from Havana. And Kate plays a blinder by being rude to Sean and Gav, insulting a prominent Russian women's sabreur and her own coach while talking us through the Montreal sabre Grand Prix. Top effort! The Coolest Fencer on the Planet goes to ….. someone you weren't expecting! Paris MF teams https://youtu.be/xpeGhLkw6nI Women’s sabre finals Montreal GP https://youtu.be/vh8y-vuB3LQ Men’s sabre finals Montreal GP https://youtu.be/SjLrZbmHSq8 Katowice women’s foil individual finals https://youtu.be/1EQ65_9dYMc Katowice women’s foil team finals https://youtu.be/_91B6QNn6CQ Heidenheim men’s epee individual final https://youtu.be/yZpo4SWONL8 Heidenheim men’s epee team finals https://youtu.be/vk9Oh4SBNNo Havana women’s epee World Cup - meh! Sorry, no.

Sean and Gav are in France for their annual pilgrimage to the best World Cup on the planet, the Challenge International de Paris men’s foil (CIP). After a long day of commentary duties for the French Federation, we settle in to the hotel bar with a beer to look back on the day’s action. And it really was an incredible day of fencing. CIP: Day 1 - Individuals https://youtu.be/A6bAdefeLLM Permalink

All the pre-Christmas action from St Maur, Salt Lake City and Tokyo. Sean admits to jealousy as he stayed behind to man the Podcast desks while Kate competed in Salt Lake City while Gav, astonishingly, was tapped to be the hall announcer at the Tokyo World Cup. This event was also the test event for the upcoming Olympic Games next year! Videos of all the action: Salt Lake City Women’s Sabre World Cup Individual playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1qrF2wPY-WJ5gpW_3ODBI7h4m8WA6MVL Salt Lake City Women’s Sabre World Cup Team playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1Vsgaq6SI&list=PL1qrF2wPY-WLP663DNWtdqEky2sNbRsLg Tokyo Men’s Foil World Cup Individual playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1Vsgaq6SI&list=PL1qrF2wPY-WLP663DNWtdqEky2sNbRsLg Tokyo Men’s Foil Wold Cup Team finals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3b66CNvgG8 St Maur Women’s Foil World Cup Individual and Team playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhcOp4IIwYBoRWIWPPig_6y_Zm5b2rUGA Fencing Visualised: Permalink

The gang are all together again! We have our first meeting of the Fencing Podcast Book Club with two fine publications to review. Sean has some fatherly words for Cairo following the men’s sabre and women’s foil World Cups held there recently, Gav gets out the spreadsheets to describe men’s epee action from Berne and Kate tells us about what it was like competing in the Orleans women’s sabre and why the home crowd were happy*. Also, trouble looming for Russia, The Coolest Fencer on the Planet and what’s coming up next.Note: We recorded this before the news broke about Russia and WAFA. Lots to mull over next time.

The 2019/20 season gets under way and Tokyo 2020 is on the horizon! Sean and Gav are back to tell you all about the early-season action from Tallinn and Bonn but where’s Kate?!? Sean describes the joys of being a travelling fencing fan and guest commentator while Gav finds a downside to having a big television. We’re encouraged by a faith in youth. Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul. Their support for The Fencing Podcast is immense https://www.leonpaul.com/ And to our equally lovely Patreon supporters, you keep the good ship Fencing Podcast afloat! Come join them: https://www.patreon.com/join/730440? Tallinn individuals https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExwQN31l_mOsj9Rq_aqECuq4 Tallinn teams https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExyaFj9TWTjRY6T5N68Hhu0M Bonn individuals https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExytsIT-UbwISOnPiKtw-YNC Bonn teams https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExx0jnADwy4B0MDEWnNl6C5r Bonus: Luperi V Arslanov - a must watch. You don’t often see that!! Permalink

The trio sit down and discuss the action from Budapest. Kate updates us on what she did on her holidays and we ponder the phenomenon of “taking the knee”. We also pick our top fencer of the year! Strap yourselves in as we end the season!

The trio sit down and discuss the action from Budapest. Kate updates us on what she did on her holidays and we ponder the phenomenon of “taking the knee”. We also pick our top fencer of the year! Strap yourselves in as we end the season!

Women’s sabre and men’s foil. Sean and Gav reporting on all the action from Day 3 of the World Championships in Budapest. Gav steps in to report on the sabre action and has two giants of the sport renewing their rivalry. Sean covers the mayhem of the men’s foil and has a good news story for British Fencing and France. The debate over Coolest Fencer on the Planet is mercifully short. Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul for getting us here https://www.leonpaul.com/ And to our equally lovely Patreon supporters, you keep the lights on! Come join them: https://www.patreon.com/join/730440? Day 3 finals on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arROQ6VlLks

Episode 50: Wold Championships Special Part 2

Episode 49: Wold Championships Special Part 1