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 Federa ..read more

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 ..read more

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. Sean also chats to Johnny Davis, the British team manager, prior to the European zonal qualifiers in Madrid. Our lovely sponsors: Leon Paul London - Iconic Fencing Equipment made in London Join our equally lovely Patreon supporters and immediately become a better person: The Fencing Podcast is creat ..read more

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. Our lovely sponsors: Leon Paul London - Iconic Fencing Equipment made in London Doha Foil Grand Prix finals: https://youtu.be ..read more

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! All the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos All the results https://fie.org/competitions And you should definitely follow Dave Baker's Facebook page all about the qualification process https://www.facebook.com/FencingTokyo ..read more

Episode 61: All The Sabre Dudes Kate, 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. Our lovely sponsors: https://www.leonpaul.com/ Join our equally lovely Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4988869&fan_landing=true Budapest Women’s Sabre individual results: https://fie.org/compe ..read more

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 ..read more

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 Ins ..read more

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 Individ ..read more

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/xpeGhLkw6 ..read more