SAVE THE DATE: FENCING MASTERS: KICK-OFF TO LONDON 2012 | June 26, 2012

Dear Friends,

Please SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 for Fencing Masters: Kick-Off to London 2012!    In a few weeks, we’ll be launching the website and tickets will go on-sale then along with addition information about the event!

The quick 411: Fencing Masters: Kick-Off to London 2012 will be a foil, epee and saber competition featuring the London 2012 US Olympic Team competing against some of the best athletes in the world in a benefit for Fencing-in-the-Schools and the US Olympic Fencing Team.

Help us spread the word and thank you for your support!

Tim

www.fencingmastersnyc.com

Canadian Team’s Dog Mascot…i’m getting this for my dog Louie, but with “USA” of course!

The KOREAN-USA Elite Tournament’s Mission is GREAT!

If I could articulate the purpose  and impact of the Fencing Master tournament into a slide it would be the above from the Korean-US Elite Tournament!  The purpose of the Korean-USA Elite tournament is to promote fencing, but this slide also clearly lays the impact of that raised awareness and then also the structural pieces that need to be in place to maximize that impact.

If I could article the three main buckets of actions needed to grow fencing:

#1 Create awareness of the sport.

#2 increasing opportunities for people to participate.

#3 find places for talented fencers to be developed to their full potential.

It is pretty powerful for me to see this all laid out.  Good teachers beg, borrow and steal.

Check out the tournament: http://www.kuefi.org/

Cutting the London 2012 Olympic Cake with my Saber!

Cool Olympic Picture of the Day: London Olympic Cake Anyone?

Speaking Today in DC at British Embassy to celebrate 200 days to London 2012! #london2012

BMW’s New Olympic Car Commercial with Fencing, Diving and Gymnastics!

Very cool!

Love that BMW used fencing in their commercial! What do you think?

Olympic Athlete Creativity: “The Fencer” Promo Campaign

French Olympic Fencer Brice Guyart has taken a creative path to help promote the sport of fencing.  Creating “The Fencer” a campaign that involves the masked “Fencer” living his life while wearing his fencing mask.  You can see the whole “fencer” family enjoying Christmas dinner in the video above or going around to DJ parties.

From the Facebook page: The Fencer” has recently come forth to challenge fencing’s low media coverage. His motto : no need to be serious to be a professional. His goal : to spread fencing’s spirit around the world.

What do you think?  You can join and support the campaign at their facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/TheFencer.net

 

USA Today Predicts Nicholas Limbach (GER) to win Gold in London 2012 in Men’s Saber

USA Today has there Olympic predictions online today for all sports for the London 2012 Games.    They have Nicolas Limbach of Germany winning Gold with Aldo Montano taking the Silver.

They have me as the highest US Finisher in 47th place…I don’t even think there are 47 competitors so not sure how they are making these predictions.

Check out fencing and every sport at the link below:
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/medal-tracker.htm#fencing_individualsabre_men

What do you think of there predictions?

Classic Fencing Match: 1996 Olympics Sabre Men Bronze Medal Match Navarrete (HUN) vs Touya (FRA)

Some pretty awesome fencing!

Note, the lights are reversed from today’s rules.