the cincinnati fencing club
A place, In cincinnati, for people who fence, to be in a club.
2024 - 2025 Fencing season
casting off with a pirate bang!
With another summer coming to a close, we are rapidly heading into cooler weather, spookier decorations, and competitions are lining up!
To that end, September 14th, 2024 is the first local epee tournament across the river in Kentucky! The Pirate Day Tournament is always a fantastic day of fencing, a bunch of friendly swabs and deck hands, and a great way to get stabbing into the autumn! This is a perfect place to show off all the work you've put in over the summer and to set your reputation as a pirate of renown and to make lubber's knees quake at your name!
Monday fencing - Clifton
We are excited to be heading into the fall at the Clifton Recreation Center as our numbers continue to grow and grow!
We begin stretching and footwork drills at 7:00pm and then open fencing afterwards.
Something that is new and interesting, over the last few months we have seen an uptick in members of the club that want to work with sabre, which has always been our least represented weapon in the club. With newer fencers wanting to get involved with the weapon, we have added a half hour of sabre drills and fencing starting at 8:00pm - 8:30pm to keep everyone on track, safe, and to foster the interest that we are seeing in the weapon.
The map to the Clifton Center is below, we look forward to seeing you on the floor!
Our Bluegrass friends
Throughout the pandemic, we have partnered with the fine folks down in Ludlow, KY to help their students get back on the piste and to give our members a place for the serious business of fencing! It has been a fantastic partnership and a testament to the small family that is fencing and the wonderful partnerships that exist between our groups.
Nate Westcott is running floor drills and holding open floor fencing for the members of NKYFA along with those that have membership with the Cincinnati Fencing Club on Thursday nights, doors opening at 7pm and the floor open until everyone is too tired to go on!
Map and directions below.
A map/Google Maps link for directions to NKYFA in Ludlow, KY
Competetive Fencing and Upcoming Tournaments
If you are excited to learn more about competition fencing, if you are looking for upcoming tournaments, or if you are looking for results from previous tournaments, then it is time to get acquainted with AskFred.net.
AskFred is a database open to the fencing community to organize tournaments, keep results and data about fencer's careers, and give a unified place for clubs to advertise their upcoming events!
For information on upcoming tournaments follow this link to see all tournaments "near" Cincinnati (AskFred is a little broad in it's definition of near): AskFred.net.
Check out this link for a search of tournaments with a limit of a 100 mile drive.
USFA Rating Chart
Academy of Fencing Masters Blog is a great resource for information by fencers and parents of athletes, talking about all the stuff that we all wonder about. Wonder no longer, start learning today!
The following link will take you to askfred.net for the explanation of how the ratings given out during a tournament are determined. USFA Ratings.
Also, this article goes into all the nitty-gritty of earning your ratings:
looking back, wistfully
I've been going back through old files, photos, and the like; riding on waves of nostalgia. I've pulled out some photos going back to 2014 when we were meeting at McKie recreation center while the Clifton rec was being renovated!