by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 22, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
För en dryg månad sedan avhölls den första tävlingen där Colley-Gustafssons tävlingssystem använts, i Malmö. 25 fäktare ställde upp, varav 19 manliga och 6 kvinnliga. För att se till att alla fick fäkta mycket så kördes tävlingen i könsblandat format fram till...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 19, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
More than a month ago, the first competition using the Colley-Gustafsson format was held in Malmö. There were 25 competitors, 19 males and 6 female fencers. In order to see to it that everyone got a significant amount of fencing, the competition was run in a...
by Peter Gustafsson | Jun 11, 2018 | Miscellaneous
Short post, I swear: i just looked at the results of the 2016 Swedish Championships, in the Women’s Epee Team event. 12 teams competed, and in the bronze place we find a team in which the youngest fencer was born in 1967. One of the fencers in that team is...
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 | Jun 6, 2018 | Strategy, tactics
Recently, I looked at a training bout at the club featuring two youngsters. The fencer on the left had significantly more experience, with all that comes with that – bigger toolset, better understanding of what is going on during a match, and so on. Still a...
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