Guernsey En Garde

We are holding our next competition in our Junior Series tomorrow morning - open to all young club member fencers. Please check your emails for our broadcasts. Please let me know if your young fencer would like to take part - message us here, email to [email protected] or WhatsApp me on 07781 102038...

Thank you and best wishes
Lisa

A few pictures from our latest Junior Series Competition which was held on Saturday 13th January. Thank you to all those who supported this event. We had a lot of fun 🤺

The next Competition in this Series will take place on Saturday 3rd February. We look forward to receiving your entry forms.

Congratulations to the Guernsey Fencers who competed in the Welsh Open Men's Sabre at the weekend 👏🏻 Alex Varley, James Le Maitre and Tal Salter. We are proud of you all!

Alex was well on top of his fencing game on Sunday, placing 2nd - awesome work! Unfortunately he met Tal early on in the first DE!!!Tal placed 35th. James was also on excellent form, placing 10th.

Fabulous to see you all continuing to enjoy your fencing 🤺

A fabulous morning of fencing at Guernsey En Garde for the first of our Junior Series competitions. Well done to all the fencers and thanks to all the lovely parents, grandparents and siblings who came aling to support. The cakes weren't bad either!! Looking forward to the next one! 🤺 🤺🤺

Morning Guernsey 🇬🇬

So this morning, bright and early, I am dashing off island for the day, only for the day, so I have no hold luggage.

I also happen to be seeing my brother, who I haven’t seen in 5 years! The thought was that I would grab some amazing local products at the airport to surprise him with.

Imagine my absolute disappointment that there is almost nothing available at the Duty Free.

Shouldn’t we be showcasing what this amazing island produces? Why don’t we have a dedicated area that sells just products that are made on this island?

I definitely think this is something as an island we should consider, and yes I am not just going to moan about it, I am going to speak to as many people as I can, and see what can be done about this.

Please help me achieve this, by sharing this post, by pointing me in the right direction of who to speak to and by talking about this!

Thanks all, and have a super week!

Guernsey fencers were well represented in this weekend's BUCS University individuals held in Sheffield. Fencers from universities all over the country competed in all three weapons.

We are proud of our Guernsey fencers, James Le Maitre, Taliesin Salter, Alex Varley and Joe Berry who did their respective universities - and Guernsey - proud this weekend in the mens sabre 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤺🤺🤺

We look forward to seeing all our fencers, supporters and parents at Christmas Open Fencing tonight between 6 and 8pm. These need to be eaten!! Come and say happy birthday to our lovely coach Ben!! 🎄🥳🤺

Today Taliesin Salter is representing Guernsey En Garde in the Men's Sabre Event in the Welsh Open Fencing Competition. Tal is now based in Wales studying at Swansea University.

Also fencing in the Welsh Open Mens' Sabre are Guernseymen James Le Maitre and Alex Varley who are both based at Exeter University.

We wish Tal, James and Alex big Guernsey good luck for this competition 🤺🤺🤺

Congratulations to Ben Mills!

Guernsey En Garde is thrilled to be celebrating with Ben Mills this week. Ben successfully completed the British Fencing Introduction to Coaching course in St Albans this last weekend and has achieved his ITCF - Level 1 coaching qualification for all three weapons.

Ben dedicates hours of his free time to Guernsey En Garde every single week and is passionate about helping our young fencers reach their potential and most importantly to enjoy their fencing. Over the past months he has also completed his Safeguarding and Protecting Children course, Sports First Aid and he holds an Enhanced DBS Certificate.

Our Club could not operate without our wonderful volunteers and we should like to take this opportunity to thank Ben for all his hard work and enormous contribution to the Club.

Ben plans to continue to work on enhancing his skills and knowledge whilst working towards his Level 2 Coaching qualifications.

Go Ben!! 🤺

Huge congratulations to all the Guernsey fencers who represented the Island in the Commonwealth fencing competition in London recently. The standard of fencing was very high so it was great experience for us Guerns.

We will be starting fencing again at Guernsey En Garde on Thursday 8th September in line with the States Schools' term. Our schedule of classes and sessions remains unchanged this term. We are looking forward to seeing all you fencers again for the Autumn Term.

If you fancy giving fencing a go, we offer a full programme for all ages from 5/6 up to adults and we are pleased to offer you your first half term for free as a taster. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested 🤩

We will be at Saumarez Park with our friends from Sarnia Sword Club for the Utmost Community Sport Fun Day from 12 noon till 4pm on Saturday 3rd September. Why not come along to support this great showcase of Guernsey Sport!

Guernsey En Garde is committed to equality, inclusion and diversity in sport and we are totally behind the Guernsey Sports Commission and their Pride in Sport campaign.

Keep on Fencing....🤺🤺🤺🤺

Lots of luck to all the fencers who are representing Guernsey in the Commonwealth competition in London over the next week and a half!! 🇬🇬🤺🤺🤺🇬🇬 Enjoy the experience!