Hertfordshire Fencing Club & Coaches Forum 2013Saturday 14th September 2013

• Welcome & Introductions• Status of Fencing within Hertfordshire• Herts Fencing Plans for 2013/2014• Herts Sports Partnership

– Peter Simmons

• Open Forum Discussion / Working Lunch

Agenda

• Chairman– James Dicker– Chairman of Watford Fencing Club

• Secretary– Renata Rybczyk-Savage– Secretary of Welwyn-Hatfield Fencing Club

• Treasurer– Philip Allen– Treasurer of St Albans Fencing Club

• Events Officer– Phil Elliot– Member of Hertfordshire University & St Albans Fencing Club’s

County Committee & Officers

Clubs Represented Today

HITCHINFENCING CLUB

Status of Fencing Within Hertfordshire

Green = Junior & Senior, Blue = Senior Only, Red = Junior Only, Yellow = Coming Soon

Clubs Within Hertfordshire

Under 10 Under 12 Under 14 Under 16 Under 20 Under 30 Under 40 Veterans 40+0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

53

6368

27

43

36

44

82

Age Specific Breakdown

211 Juniors & 205 Senior Fencers in total.Does not include schools!

Clubs Weapon Utilisation

Broxbourne

Dacorum

Fencing Nursary

Herts University

Hitchin Fencing Club

North Herts Blades

North London Sabre

PDFA

Salle Hadalin

St Albans

Three Rivers Young Blades

Watford

Welwyn-Hatfield

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

FoilEpeeSabre

Inter-Club/Local League

County Level

Regional Level

National Level

International

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

135

144

35

63

10

Level of Competition

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

11

6

5

0

2

6

2

0

1

2

5

2

2

1

3

SabreEpeeFoil

Coaches Levels

Assistants

Interested in Qualification

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

17

12

Club members assisting with coaching

Club Assistants

14

19

Yes No

Coaches on the British Fencing Register

• Be a Current Member of British Fencing.• Hold a DBS Certificate (Formally CRB).

– Issued by British Fencing. Free for non-professional coaches. (£40 for professionals)

• Hold a recognised coaching qualification.– Non-BFA qualifications can be converted for FREE if you are a Herts based coach as British

Fencing has agreed a fee-waiver!

• Hold a Safeguarding and Protecting Children Certificate.

• Hold a First Aid Certificate.– Waiver programme available if there is already another qualified First Aider at club.

Coach Register Requirements

Qualified

Interested

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

6

26

Referees

Junior C

ounty 2012

Junior C

ounty 2013

Senior County 2012

Senior County 2

013

Senior Mixe

d 2011

Senior Mixe

d 2012

Team 2012

Team 2013

Junior F

oil 2011

Herts LP

JS 2012

Junior T

raining 2011

Senior Training 2012

Senior Training 2013

Level 1

Coaching 2

012

Level 1

Referee 2012

0

50

100

150

200

250

7077 83

92

4451

36

57

37

208

21 19 2416 18

HFA-Organised Event Attendance

Slough Open 2010

Slough Open 2011

Slough Open 2012

Slough Open 2013

Herts Open Sabre 2010

Herts Open Sabre 2011

Herts Open Sabre 2012

Herts Open Sabre 2013

Herts Youth Games 2012

Herts Youth Games 2013

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450422

374

317

386

103

76 77 81

24 27

Non-HFA Event Attendance with Herts

Princess Marina - Rickmansworth Herts Sports Village - Hatfield Various

• Coach Development – For all levels but particularly for Level 1 & Level 2 coaches.– Coach Education Workshop on 12th October 2013 with Prof. Peter Cormack.

• Volunteers – The bigger our events get, the more help we need!

• Referees – Particularly for Junior Tournaments. – Introduction / Level 1 Referee Course on 2nd November 2013 with Eastern Region Referee Educator Mike Ellis.

• Performance Training Days – Increase Attendance Levels– Senior Foil & Epee Performance Training Day – Sunday 22nd September 2013– Junior Foil & Sabre Performance Training Day – Saturday 9th November 2013– Senior 3W Performance Training Day – Sunday 13th April 2013

County Development Areas

• Paul Davis

– Develop new ways to increase junior participation.

– Work with local clubs to create links with schools, colleges etc.

– Develop methods to help bridge schools GO/FENCE programmes to metal fencing with feeds into local community clubs.

– Help encourage Inter-Club Junior Friendlies.

Junior Development Officer

From Development Survey Feedback

Funding Member retention

Coach Development Publicity

Lack of electric scoring equipment Sports hall availability

Lack of competitiveness with members Lack of 16 to 20 year olds

Club not part of any local league Lack of women within the sport

Availability of coaches Lack of members

Lack of referee skills. Members unable to gain respectable results at national opens!

Lack of Advanced Armoury Skills

Barriers!

Plans for 2013 - 2014

• Feb – Junior County Championship (F)• Apr – Senior County Championship (F,E,S)• Jun – Senior Training Day (F,E,S)• Jul – County Team Championship (F,E)• Sept – Senior Performance Training Day (F,E)• Oct – Coach Education Workshop (F,E,S)• Oct – 3rd Annual Senior Mixed Tournament (F,E,S)• Nov – Level 1 Foil & Sabre Referee Course (F,S)• Nov – Junior Performance Training Day (F,S)• Nov - Herts LPJS (F)

2013

• Sunday 24th November 2013 at Princess Marina in Rickmansworth.– www.hertslpjs.org – Online Entry Only.

• FIE/Olympic Referee Nick Payne has agreed to be our Head Referee and lead a team of 25 referees.– Fee of £40 plus expenses for referees available.

• Entry Cap of 222 Fencers over 17/18 Pistes (Over 50% of spaces already gone!)

• Under 9, 11, 13 and 15 Categories (No Under 17’s)

• Event Crew/Volunteers Wanted.

• 2014?

Herts LPJS 2013

• Jan/Feb – Junior Performance Training Day (F,S)• Feb – Junior County Championship (F,S)• Apr – Senior Performance Training Day (F,E,S)– Something very special being planned!

• Apr – Senior County Championship (F,E,S)• Jun – Senior County Team Championship (F,E,S?)• Jul – Herts Youth Games (F) …….PDFA Organised Event

• Oct – 4th Annual Herts Senior Mixed (F,E,S)

2014

• Refereeing – We are going to aim to have a Official referee at every tournament.– Eastern Region Referee Mike Ellis confirmed for Senior Mixed Tournament in October.

• Junior County Championship – Reintroduction of Sabre in 2014. It will be a mixed tournament over two age groups TBC.

• Under 20’s Championship – Scrapped from Junior County Championship in 2013 due to low numbers in 2012 and introduced as a “Best Placed” prize in the Senior Championship.

• Senior Mixed Tournament – Moved from Rickmansworth to Hatfield– Moved from December to October– Introduction of “Best Placed” Novice and Veteran (40+) in all weapons.

Event Changes for 2013/2014