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Today Elliot and I went to the “Camden International Cadet Sabre Competition 2007″, in which sabreurs under the age of 17 from several countries compete. First we were split into poules to be seeded (although everyone qualified for the sequential direct elimination). I did extremely badly, losing most fights 5-1 and a few 5-0 (lol). Elliot fared slightly better, at least once scoring more than one point in a fight. In the DE, Elliot, seeded 63, had to fence some guy, seeded 66, and beat him. I, having done worse in the poules and seeded 70, had to fence someone with a seeding of around 53. Despite one of the lenses of my glasses falling out half-way through the first half (before the one minute break at 8 points) and his higher ranking, I still beat that guy (awesome!). Elliot then had to fence seed 2 and lost 15-1. I had to fence a Romanian guy, seed 6, and also lost 15-1. I got a yellow card for doing a cross-over, which has never happened before, so I’d better do more footwork practice. Our final rankings are as yet unknown but maybe the results will be posted on the websomewhere so I’ll report back later.

Update: Argh I came 64th and Elliot came 62nd: here is the full list of results.

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