I have an assigment..
Meifong, Mary and Kailin..
Three of you will in charge in picture documentation of the club..
Be it in hard or soft copies.
All fencers who still haven't 'surrendered' any pictures taken from our activities..plese do so ASAP!!!
thanks
abe
All Minden Fencers are eligible of applying.
Those who would like to apply for it, let me know and I will look into it.(Basically, judging whether you should get it )
For those successful applicants, please prepare a photocopy of your vehicle grant (geran kereta) and insurans docs to be presented to the Jabatan Keselamatan of USM.
By the way, please let me know your Vehicle Number, Matriculation No., Full Name and Type of Vehicle.
Again..Please spread the news.
xinyun
Any idea of when you wanna have your trainings?
We gonna have our 1st training on the 1st week, let us discuss on that then.
Lets make it on tuesday..
1st Training
Date: 23/12/08
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: the same old place
SPREAD the news!!!
People!
We are on the headlines!
Here's the link, have a look!
http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/12/9/central/2693868&sec=central
Thanks to Chee Collin or See Collin or Chee Kai Lin :p,finally we have a photo with all the epeeist..And since our Chee Collin or See Collin or Chee Kai Lin is kinda shy expressing himself, I lend him a helping hand by posting his master piece of editted photo.Calling for our photographers of the tournament: CPK, MeiFong, JL and co.Please KINDLY upload the photos ya
It has been almost 1 week since we came back from the first ever Touche Fencing Competition.
Since then, our so-called official blog of USM Fencing Club is still...still remains the same..Looks like somebody has to step up and do something.
Anyway, I'm kinda excited to share what me or we as a team has gone through so far. Hopefully, my DEAR TEAMMATES can share some of your PRECIOUS experience here as well.
I knew you guys have a lot to say and can really "TALK", since we (less than 20 people) can make the whole bus and whole GIS Sports Hall almost runtuh. So, don't be so kedekut ya. Share!
So..This is the first picture we took on the first day of our intensive training. Obviously...
As you can see, all of us are still full with energy and can still smile. Too bad we didn't take any photos on the last day to show the contrast of it. My guess is that we were too exhausted till we can't even hold a 500g camera =.=
Honestly, I can't remember how I passed through that 7 days (20nov till 26nov). It was a routine of activities..wake up, training, eat, nap, training, eat, bath, sleep..And "ThankS" to this intensive training, I was rewarded with 4 not-so-small blisters beneath my toes and a few nice, rounded shape bruisies here and there..haha..(ABE, I'm not complaining! ;p)
To be franked a 7-days intensive training is too short for us to pick up what people did for 7 years. Anyway, I believe that all of us have learnt a lot through it, no matter in Fencing or in life. Vincent, regretted of not joining us? I bet you do..;p
Hmm..on the 28th, we reached UM in the evening after an almost 7 hour ride from USM. That was like the longest ever journey I took to KL from penang. Courtesy to our dear driver, En. Abu. But as the malay "proverb" says: LAMBAT ASALKAN SELAMAT. A million thank you to En. Abu for successfully hantar us all the way to KL and all the way back to PG safe and sound.
On that evening itself, we took another looooooooooooooooonggg journey to Mid Valley, around 2 hours I think. Long enough for me to go from my home to USM back and forth a few times. Sorry guys, I'm not so familiar with routes in KL, thus, the timing is a bit off. Ended up I heard lots of grunting..from your stomach..haha..sorry ..
On the next day, again..we spent sometime on the bus again. This time, spinning around Bukit Kiara, looking for the competition venue. Eventually, a beautiful school..(more like a college to me than a school) came into our view. Wow..I wonder how much do these kids pay per month in order to study here..Anybody took a photo of it? Post it!
After a long winding "introduction" to our journey, I should write something about our competition, which should be the main topic here ;p.. Bear with me.
On the first day, after the woos and wahsss admiring people's "school", our war began..
Women's foilists are just one step..I should say 1 point away from earning our first medal of the day.
4 juniors competed in this event, 2 entered the quarter finals, 1 nearly won..
Girls, although no medal is won, I'm still proud of you gals, I'm sure that all of you have learnt something after all.
Love this photo.. you gals will make a special team
With Min Er..the gal with strong powerful laughter (I missed the HAHAHAHA)
With Kai Lin..the gal who is always cooking "porridge".. Where's my pei dan zhuk anyway?
With Mei Fong..the gal who is always there to help me take care of those lame's (THANKS!)
and Maryanne..the..err...maid..hahaha
You are unique, each and everyone of you..Women's Foil team! Keep it up!
So tall..that is what you can say when you are with Men's Epee Team..Opps..sorry Raymond, we took this photo after you left, we did leave a place for you in the pic..which is..on the floor..=.=
Raymond and Vincent, you guys took up Epee for weeks or may be days only. The performance was "amat sangat memuaskan sekali", but, you know you can be better..again.. Keep it up!!
Our sabre team is officially 16-days-old!! I knew its hard for you 2 to compete in something you barely knew. But, guess what you guys won us the first gold of the competition!
Tuan-tuan dan Puan-puan, diperkenalkan the Men's Foil Team of USM..Clap Clap Clap..=.=
why so serious....
Jac: Mary, you should parry, disengage and touche right in the middle of her chest.
Congrats to all!
USM Fencing Club, Kelab Lawan Pedang USM was established in 2007 by a few USM students who have great passion in this sport which is not that well-known and popular in university as well as in the country. However, with the help of PAFA (Penang Amatuer Fencing Association), Penang Fencing Team, Sports Department of USM and the commitment of both the juniors and senior fencers, we managed to build up a team in this short period of time.
USM Close Fencing Championship was held at the end of Sept 2007 as a platform to boost the interest of our newly recruited fencers into this unique and special combat sports which acquired not only physical but also mental strength in order to excel in it. In March 2008, 10 fencers comprised of 7 guys and 3 female fencers represented USM in UMS Fencing Open Championship.
In UMS Open which is the 1st major competition we took part , we achieved satisfactory result as a rookie team where we won 2 bronzes in foil mixed team event and women's individual epee event. Besides that, although being the 1st batch of fencers under USM Fencing Club, 2 of our fencers were recruited into Penang Fencing Team based on our commitment and excellent performance in training as well as competition. They have represented Penang in the Danga Bay International Games 2008 and SUKMA 2008 as state fencers.
Now, USM Fencing Club just celebrated it's 1 year old birthday. We have currently recruited 60 new members where 20 of them remained as active members. In September, we successfully held the 2nd USM Close Fencing Championship 2008 where a few new talents are identified through this competition.
In Penang Close Competition 2008, a few juniors represented USM in this first stage of sirkit competition and showed promising performance where they won a few bronzes although this is only their 1st competition. Overall, with the contribution of senior fencers, USM Fencing Club won 2 gold's, 1 silver and 4 bronzes. Moreover, under "Warga Sukan" Scheme of USM, we recruited a state fencer, Ms Seng Yuh Min this year. She won a few major local and international tournaments representing the state of Penang and the country as well. The most established one was the Navy Open Fencing Championship held in Thailand where she won gold and bronzes in it.
For now, the fencers are trained under Mr. Lim Peng Jin who is the secretary of PAFA and our volunteer coach. With the help of other senior fencers, the juniors are progressing well, although more exposure is needed for greater improvement. In Nov, USM Fencing Club has been invited to join Touche Inter College & University Fencing Championship 2008 held by Touche Fencing Club. This will be one of the major tournament in our calender, around 12-15 fencers will be representing USM. Moreover, we will have a representatives in Fencing Grand Prix, UMS Open and other competitions as well.
