Buccaneer Blades Fencing Club

BBF has posted our 2026/2027 tournament schedule on AskFred! We hope you can come out for another great season of pirate fencing fun!

BBF Tournaments you don't want to miss (https://tinyurl.com/BBF-Tournaments):
8/22/2026 - Summer 2026 Piracy for Beginners
(Unsanctioned Foil/Epee - Senior/Youth)

10/24 - 10/25/2026 - 10th Annual It's a Pirate's Life for Me!
(Senior/Women's - Foil/Epee/Saber)

12/5 - 12/6/2026 - 10th Annual Knights of the Black Flag
(Senior/Women's - Foil/Epee/Saber)

1/16/2027 - Winter 2027 - Piracy for Beginners
(Unsanctioned Foil/Epee - Senior/Youth)

2/27 - 2/28/2027 - 10th Annual Join the Pirate Crew
(Senior/Women's- Foil/Epee/Saber)

4/10 - 4/11/2027 - 8th Annual Don Bone Classic
(Senior, Vet, Women's - Foil/Epee/Saber)

A Seismic Change to How American Fencing Works - Academy of Fencing Masters USA Fencing just announced a change to the domestic points system. Call it anything other than seismic and you are underselling it.

Day 2 of the Show Me State games- Epee day:

BBF fencers continued to fence great and have so much fun! Congratulations to all for aome great bouts and camaraderie. :)

Special shout out to Delaine Herl for taking 1st place in Veteran epee and earning his E26!

Other notables pirates include:
Kylie Boutin - 3rd Y14 epee

Delaine Herl - 3rd Unrated SXE
David Giocolo - 3rd Unrated SXE

Delaine Herl - 1st VXE
John Hock - 2nd VXE
David Giocolo - 3rd VXE

Day 1 of the Show Me State games is finished and BBF pirates fenced amazingly!

Shout out to Kip Watson for taking first in unrated senior foil and earning an E26!

We're also proud of:
Nicholas Boss - 2nd SXF
Lucas Brown - 3rd SXF

Kip Watson - 1st Unrated SXF
Matthew LeJeune - 2nd Unrated SXF
Abby Foust - 3rd Unrated SXF

Ronan Brodeur - 2nd Y14MS
Owen Fallert - 3rd Y14MS

Congratulations to Lucas Brown winning the 2026 titanium foil and going 17-1 for the day! Also shout out to our other pirates: Thomas Kokker, Richard Stanton, Liam Oakes, Abby Foust and Jey Lucero for pushing through the single hardest fencing tournament we've ever heard of! 😁😁

Time is a Finite Resource - Academy of Fencing Masters You will never get today's practice back. So it's not whether you spent time, but if you will have something to show for the time spent.