Hills Sabre Academy

Our fencers competed last week in the 2024 Senior National Champs in Brisbane.

Our boys did their best but faced a very tough comp with over 47 competitors to finish as follows:
Tarin - 26th
Alex - 28th

Our girls on the other hand fair better but unfortunately met each other in the top 8. Zara won and then went on to win the event.
Zara - 🥇
Tiana - 7th

Here is a video of Zara's journey to victory.

Alan Dja Mirzé

2024 Senior Women's Sabre National Champs - Brisbane Our female fencers competing in the Individual Women's Sabre event. “TIMESTAMPS”T8 Zara Vs Tiana - 00:05T4 So Vs Hardge - 05:38T4 Zara Vs Yelin - 14:37T2 Zar...

We have ourselves a Senior National Champion.
Our fencer Zara, competed last week in the Senior National Championship and caused a big upset by bringing home the gold. Its been a long road for her with 2 previous years of silver medal results in this event, but her hard work has finally paid off.
Congrats to Zara and her dedicated family.

Alan Dja Mirzé

It's Star Wars Day!
HSA fencers celebrate the cult following that influenced us with costumes and of course... LIGHT SABRES!!!

AFC1 Finals Bout.
Zara Vs Isobel

Despite the age difference and height advantage of her opponent, young Zara makes a comeback to win gold at the first Senior AFC event for 2023.

AFC1 Finals - DJAMIRZE Vs MCROBERT Despite the age difference and height advantage of her opponent, young Zara makes a comeback to win gold at the first Senior AFC event for 2023.Music byFerra...

Last week our fencers entered the first Senior National competition for the 2023 season.

In the Mens Sabre Alex and Tarin did well in the poules but had the misfortune of once again meeting each other early in the Top 32 DE. Alex managed to beat Tairn but lost in the next round in the 16.

As for the Women's Sabre, our girls went beyond their age limit and produced some outstanding results.
Tiana (11yrs) reached the semi-finals and lost to an older and taller fencer. But her result has secured her ranking in both Junior and Cadets.

Zara (13yrs) continued on and met the same fencer who defeat Tiana in the finals. This match had it all... harsh words exchanged amongst fencers and coaches, merciless attacks from both sides, tense moments of video calls, and an impressive comeback by Zara to steal gold at the end!

Well done girls on your hard-earned results.

Mens
Alex - 16th
Tarin - 17th

Womens
Zara - 1st 🥇
Tiana - 3rd 🥉

To celebrate the opening of our Youtube channel here is a video that shows why we are the best in the west.

HSA Parry Compilation A collection of the best parries from our young guns here at HSA in Western Sydney

It's time for our club to get out of the stone age and embrace modern technology. So we have started our own Youtube channel where we hope you will enjoy watching our young fencers in action .

Hills Sabre Academy - YouTube Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

And while we were down in Melbourne, HSA fencers also competed in the 1st AYC event for 2023.
Once again HSA dominated both Boy's and Girl's events.
Tiana crushed all competition to come home with Gold.
Alex and Luca had a difficult time in the pools and DE. Luca finished 5th, while Alex finally woke up and went on to win Gold.

Congrats to our U15 champions.

Tiana - 🥇

Alex - 🥇
Luca - 5th

Over the weekend the HSA team flew down to bright and cheerful Melbourne to compete in the U20 National Champs for 2023.

HSA girls dominated the U20 Nationals both in the pools and the DE. They finally faced each other in the finals where Zara took gold and Tiana silver.

U20 Nationals
Zara - 🥇🏆
Tiana - 🥈

In the boys U20 Nationals, Tarin had a strong start and finished 3rd going into the DE. Luca and Alex didn't do so well and were forced to meet in the round of 16. Alex survived that bout only to then meet his other clubmate, Tarin. This was a hard-fought bout by both fencers, with Alex only winning by only 2 points. Alex then went on to fence against Zeno who was older and taller than him. Despite the odds, Alex biltz ahead in the second half to win the bout 15-10.
Alex's winning streak came to an end in the finals where he was defeated by Colin 15-13.
Congrats to all our fencers who did their best and have shown improvement since last year.

Alex - 🥈
Tarin - 5th
Luca - 12th

28th Nov 2022

Following her victory in the AYC Champs, Zara goes on to give the big girls a run for their money.
In her first Open National Championship, Zara dominated the pools and the DE, up to the final match.
There she fought a hard bout against fellow NSW fencer Gaia, losing only by a single point. Despite finishing second, we are all very proud of her result considering she is only 13yrs old.
Well done Zara and we look forward to how much further you'll go in 2023. 🥈

27th Nov 2022

Congratulations to our girls who flew down to Adelaide to compete in the U15 AYC Championships.

It's been a long year but Zara has trained hard and been consistent in her results throughout the year. This all paid off with her victory and becoming the new AYC Girls Sabre Champion.

Tiana had a bumpy road throughout her poules and DE. After emotional breakdowns, a few tears, and an apparent head concussion, she managed to overcome it all with a bit of unsympathetic encouragement from her coach.
In the end, she stole a victory in the semi-finals from a more confident opponent. She went on to lose against Zara in the finals but comes away with a Silver.

Well done to all our girls on your results.

Zara - 🥇
Tiana - 🥈

26th Nov 2022

Our boys went down to Adelaide to compete in the U15 AYC Championships. Despite a tough DE they managed to pull off some good results.

Congratulations to Alex on becoming the AYC Sabre Champion. Also congrats to Luca for his well-fought 5th position.

Alex - 🥇
Luca - 🥈