We have 9 fencers fencing in the Salle Team Championships. Assignment to teams was scrambled to provide 1 fencer seeded first in a weapon, 1 fencer seeded second in a weapon, and 1 fencer seeded third in a weapon to each team. Assigned teams are based on the traditional names…
Salle Green is a member of the Global Fencing Network, a network of over 135 clubs in 31 countries that agree to welcome visitors for up to 2 weeks in their open fencing periods at no charge. You have to be visiting a club more than 150 miles away from your home club,…
Maitre d’Armes Walter Green has been appointed as a member of the United States Fencing Coaches Association’s (USFCA) Certification and Accreditation Board (CAB). The USFCA is the professional organization for fencing coaches in the United States, and conducts coach training and professional certification to international standards. The CAB sets the…
We have added a new page in The Virtual Salle titled Knowledge Base. This will include a variety of links to articles of value to our members that either Salle Green, or one of our centers, has produced. So far we have up a new Ezine Articles article, Fencing Theory:…
We use Tumblr for short text blog posts to capture interesting thoughts from class and lessons or ideas that appear from study. You can expect one or two Tumblr posts a week. You can read these posts at http://tumblr.com/blog/sallegreen Imagine our surprise when we received an official Tumblr badge as part of…
Our two newsletters, the monthly Thrust and Cut and the Remise for fast breaking information, have been honored for being in the top 10% of commercial newsletters for readership and the value of information they provide by our newsletter service Constant Contact. Constant Contact is a major newsletter and marketing…
Our forms for Scouting and Self-Assessment in The Virtual Salle are now operational and can receive your tournament data. And we have added a tournament form with the pre-competition checklist to let our coaching staff know that you have registered for a tournament and to request any needed equipment.
The Self-Assessment and Scouting forms for use after a competition are now up in The Virtual Salle. The layout is what we want, the fields are good, but we are still working to fix a problem in formatting the data so that it transmits properly – so don’t use it yet. …
The deadline for USA Fencing All-Academic Team Honors applications is 6 May. The description of the program is on USA Fencing’s website. If you (1) have fenced in a tournament for us this year, (2) are in high school, and (3) have an average of 3.5-3.69 (Honorable Mention), 3.7-3.84 (Second…
Congratulations to Frank Markham for successful completion of the written and practical examinations for Level 1 in Foil in the Pan American Fencing Academy Skill Development Program. And a belated congratulations to Brian Ainley for earning Level 1 in Foil last month.