psyche

Today, Elliot, Hugh Emerson, Oliver Jones and I went to the “Camden International Cadet Sabre Competition 2008″ (snappy name). The free t-shirt was similar to last year’s but with an “8″ in place of the “7″ and an exaggerated, hammer-and-sickle-esque sabre guard taking up more space than last time.

We met Mathieu there again (he left for France after a while) and Jim refereed some fights. Last time I came 64th out of 71 and this time I came 57th out of 85.

My poule went fairly badly - at the beginning I feel I fenced quite well and kept distance nicely but unfortunately after my first two fights, I fenced someone much better than me, lost the match and my concentration and lost all subsequent fights in the poule. I was seeded 58 and then beat Niall Dowse (seed 71) 15-11. I then lost to Stanislav Konopatskiy (seed 7) 15-2. That’s a slightly better result than last year.

The full results are here.

I’ve been jumping through hoops for so long now. Hmm.

Pax