by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 10, 2018 | Mechanical, Refereeing
Well, that headline sure sounds like something impossible, doesn’t it? On the contrary, it happened in reality, with me being the referee. Let me explain. When I was refereeing an epee poule match at a competition this season, I started out the match by checking...
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 23, 2017 | Mechanical
This post is only about a minor technological fix to s specific problem, there is nothing about fencing tactics or strategy in it. After have looked at a team match in which the referee had to remind a fencer that he had consumed his demands for video replay, it...
by Peter Gustafsson | Dec 11, 2017 | Mechanical, weapon repair
In general, the rookie fencer will need to put together a repair kit for his fencing stuff fairly early on. This blog post is about how to get as much bang for the buck as possible when buying its contents. First of all, let me state a few assumptions: You, as a...
by Peter Gustafsson | Nov 2, 2017 | Mechanical
I have spent some time at, and after, various competitions thinking about how the remote to the fencing scoring machine could be improved. Being trained a mechanical engineer makes that second nature, if it was not there before one entered technical University. I have...
by Peter Gustafsson | Oct 30, 2017 | Mechanical, Refereeing
I spent the weekend refereeing the Open Zealand Championships, as the only non-Danish referee. The event was organized by the Trekanten Fencing club, the leading fencing club in Denmark. As a measure of the level at which this club operates, it can be noted that its...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 10, 2017 | Mechanical, weapon repair
Most of us epeeists have dealt with the aggravation that it is to screw in the first tip screw into an epee tip – one thumb holds the tip in at the right distance and rotated so that the female threading at the tip screw slot in the barrel, while at the same...
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