The women's foil team is having our last national camp before worlds from Friday to Sunday. This camp is going to be like none of the others with ALL members of the four person women's foil team together at last. One of the team members, Emily Cross, has been wearing a boot for the last month in order to heal some fractured bones in her foot so she has been unable to attend the other camps. It's a great opportunity for us to practice fencing as a team.
I am not sure if everyone reading this blog is aware that the sport of fencing has both an individual and team component to it. There is an individual event that lasts two days and a team event that usually takes place a few days after the individual event. There are three members of the team that fence and one alternate that is put in as needed. For example, the alternate would be put in when someone is injured or does better with a certain country or competitor. The three members of the USA team fence the three members of the other team in a 45 touch relay with timed intervals of three minutes.
In addition to the women at camp we have several top level men coming to fence with us from around the US and Canada. It's going to be tough because men tend to be much more mobile and agressive on the fencing strip. Remember, women are no better or worse, we just fence and play sports differently. Please refer to my last blog post for explanation.
This should be a great opportunity to get prepared for the upcoming World Championships. I am really excited to see everyone and fence some difficult bouts before heading off to Torino. This is it folks, we are coming down to the wire.
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