Cape Fear Fencing Association

🤺CLUB UPDATES🤺:

🤺Long term club dues are currently on the table (through August). You can get 6 months of club membership for the cost of 5 months ($225 instead of $270) by paying August through January all at one time. Or you can go really big and get a whole year for only 10 months ($450 instead of $540). We only offer this when it falls in line with the USA Fencing calendar, so it is only available for August to July. Or the 6 month is August - January and a second shot of February - July. Only about a week left.

Remember, because of our insurance, you cannot fence currently unless your USA Fencing dues are up to date.

🤺Regular schedule for this week as far as lessons and practice:

Club practice Tuesday and Thursday nights

Saturday morning someone will be in starting about 11am, just let Coach Spahr know if you are planning on coming in.

🤺Time to start thinking about Fall classes, so here is the schedule so far:

September 8 Afterschool fencing starts for advanced fencers
September 9 Homeschool fencing starts for both returners and the new beginner class (8 week)
September 14 Afterschool 6 week beginning classes start
September 14 Mon/Wed 6 week beginning evening foil class

🤺🤺INFORMATION ON UPCOMING EVENTS🤺🤺:

🤺Our first event will be on October 24th and will include Open Foil, Open Epee, and a Div III (D and under) Foil event.

🤺The second will be December 5th and will have an Open Foil, Open Epee, and a Div III Epee.

They are now up on askfred, and have caps of 28 fencers, so start getting signed up.

Have a great week everyone! 🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺

Happy (late by 1 day) birthday to our Prez!! Brendan, we hope you had a wonderful day and thank you for all that you do for our club! 🤺🤺🤺🤺

🤺WEEKLY UPDATES🤺:

🤺Long term club dues are currently on the table (through August). You can get 6 months of club membership for the cost of 5 months ($225 instead of $270) by paying August through January all at one time. Or you can go really big and get a whole year for only 10 months ($450 instead of $540). We only offer this when it falls in line with the USA Fencing calendar, so it is only available for August to July. Or the 6 month is August - January and a second shot of February - July.

🤺Regular schedule (accounting for the return of the evening class) for this week as far as lessons and practice:

Club practice Tuesday and Thursday nights, and Saturday morning someone will be in starting about 11 am, just let Coach Spahr know if you’re coming in.

🤺Time to start thinking about Fall classes, so here is the schedule so far:

August 18 Tu/Th 6 week beginning evening foil class (could be really big)
September 8 Afterschool fencing starts for advanced fencers
September 9 Homeschool fencing starts for both returners and the new beginner class (8 week)
September 14 Afterschool 6 week beginning classes start
September 14 Mon/Wed 6 week beginning evening foil class

🤺We have had our fall events approved by the North Carolina Division.

🤺Our first event will be on October 24th and will include Open Foil, Open Epee, and a Div III (D and under) Foil event.

🤺The second will be December 5th and will have an Open Foil, Open Epee, and a Div III Epee.

They are now up on askfred, and have caps of 28 fencers, so start getting signed up.

🤺There will be an engagement celebration In New Bern on August 29th to celebrate Ryan Miller and Sarah Kate Childs. It will start around 2:30 - 3 pm with a dinner at 5 pm, and very likely some epee.

If you know them and want to attend, RSVP to Donny Zelinski, [email protected].

Have a great week everyone and see you at practice! 🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺

Happy (belated) birthday to our Head Armorer and Club founder, Herman! You pour so much of yourself into our club and we appreciate all of the hard work you do. We hope you enjoyed yesterday (we'll get it right on the calendar next year, haha!) and here's to many more celebrations to you! 🤺🤺🤺

Happiest of Birthdays to our very own Kenyatta! She keeps this place together in a dozen different ways, so make sure you wish her a happy birthday

Happiest of Birthdays to our very own Kenyatta! She keeps this place together in a dozen different ways, so make sure you wish her a happy birthday!

🤺RESULTS🤺:

🤺Coach Spahr travelled to Foothills Fencing Academy for their referee certification event this past weekend. In foil he was 2-3 in his pool, and won his first DE, before losing to Michael Edgecombe in the second, to finish 8th. Michael went on to win the event.

Epee was more challenging as he lost all my bouts and my DE to finish 12th.

In sabre, he went 2-3 in the pool, coming out 3rd and ended up 5th overall.

🤺🤺DUES UPDATES🤺🤺:

Long term club dues are currently on the table. You can get 6 months of club membership for the cost of 5 months ($225 instead of $270) by paying August through January all at one time. Or you can go really big and get a whole year for only 10 months ($450 instead of $540). We only offer this when it falls in line with the USA Fencing calendar, so it is only available for August to July. Or the 6 month is August - January and a second shot of February - July.

🤺🤺🤺CLUB UPDATES🤺🤺🤺:

**Remember, because of our insurance, you cannot fence starting 8/1/2026 unless your USA Fencing dues are up to date.**

🤺Regular schedule for this week as far as lessons and practice.

That is: club practice Tuesday and Thursday nights, and Saturday morning Coach Spahr will be in starting about 11 am.

🤺We had a great advanced foil camp last week with 8 of our younger fencers!

🤺Time to start thinking about Fall classes, so here is the schedule so far:

August 18 Tu/Th 6 week beginning evening foil class
September 8 Afterschool fencing starts for advanced fencers
September 9 Homeschool fencing starts for both returners and the new beginner class (8 week)
September 14 Afterschool 6 week beginning classes start
September 14 Mon/Wed 6 week beginning evening foil class

🤺We have had our fall events approved by the North Carolina Division and are up on askfred.

Our first event will be on October 24th and will include Open Foil, Open Epee, and a Div III (D and under) Foil event.

The second will be December 5th and will have an Open Foil, Open Epee, and a Div III Epee. They are now up on askfred, and have caps of 28 fencers, so start getting signed up.

❤️🤺ENDING ON A HAPPY NOTE🤺❤️:

❤️There will be an engagement celebration In New Bern on August 29th to celebrate Ryan Miller and Sarah Kate Childs. It will start around 2:30 - 3 pm with a dinner at 5 pm and quite possibly some celebratory fencing.

If you know them and want to attend, RSVP to Donny Zelinski, [email protected] .

Have a great week and we’ll see you at practice tonight! 🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺

🤺RESULTS🤺:

🤺Mark B. travelled to Monroe, NC (near Charlotte) this weekend to fence in his first "official" tournament hosted by the Triple Threat Fencing Academy.

They decided to combine their two epee events (Y-10 and Y-14) to get people more fencing. There were 2 large pools, so each one was a bunch of Y-14s and a few Y-10s. Mark went 2-5, beating the other Y-10s in his pool.

He won his first DE (which was also combined), beating another of the Y-10 fencers. In the end, he was the highest-ranking Y-10 and won the gold medal 🥇. Great job Mark!!!🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺

🤺🤺CLUB UPDATES🤺🤺:

🤺Regular schedule for this week as far as lessons and practice. That is: club practice Tuesday and Thursday nights, and Saturday morning about 11 am.

🤺The advanced foil camp started Monday.

🤺Long term club dues are also getting close.

You can get 6 months of club membership for the cost of 5 months ($225 instead of $270) by paying August through January all at one time. Or you can go really big and get a whole year for only 10 months ($450 instead of $540). We only offer this when it falls in line with the USA Fencing calendar, so it is only available for August to July. Or the 6 month is August - January and a second shot of February - July.

🤺Fall classes schedule so far:

August 18 Tu/Th 6 week beginning evening foil class
September 8 Afterschool fencing starts for advanced fencers
September 9 Homeschool fencing starts for both returners and the new beginner class (8 week)
September 14 Afterschool 6 week beginning classes start
September 14 Mon/Wed 6 week beginning evening foil class

🤺We are selling our club jackets and knickers to our members for $5. We are going to keep it going through the camp season. This is the last week to get stuff if you are interested.

Have a great week everyone 🤺🤺🤺🤺

A big thanks to our friends from for coming down to help ref and also test out some cool fencing software 🤺🤺🤺!