LPJS Foil, Epee & Sabre 2023
Date: Saturday, 11th March – Sunday, 12th March
Venue: Truro Fencing Club, The Cornwall Fencing Centre, Trennick Lane, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1TH
Cornwall LPJS 2023
Truro Fencing Club hosts several events during the season, the most popular of which is the Leon Paul Junior Series (LPJS) Cornwall event that covers two day’s fencing, for both boys & girls in all three weapons.
The 2023 event is taking place over the weekend of the Saturday, 11th March – Sunday, 12th March and you can enter online (via the LPJS website) by clicking on the buttons below.
For any questions, queries or concerns you may have, please contact Joanne by email admin@trurofencing.com
Venue
Directions
The competition is held at Truro Fencing Club, at The Cornwall Fencing Centre, based at Truro School. The address is Truro Fencing Club, The Cornwall Fencing Centre, Trennick Lane, Truro, Cornwall , TR1 1TH and you’re heading to building number 24:
- Drive up Trennick Lane, turning right to enter the ‘Main Car Park’
- Drive across this car park, keeping building number 26 (Sir Ben Ainslie Sports Centre/SBA) to your left, there is a road to the right of the SBA, follow this down and around to the right
- Truro Fencing Club, (building number 24) is second on the right (directly after and attached to the swimming pool)
Parking is free and directly outside the fencing club. Please park carefully, utilising the SBA car park if needed.
Sabre
The sabre fencer’s uniform includes a metallic jacket (lamé), which covers the target area to register a valid touch on the scoring machine. The mask is different from foil and épée, with a metallic covering since the head is valid target area.
Just as in foil, there are two scoring lights on the machine. One shows a green light when a fencer is hit, and one shows a red light when the opponent his hit. Off-target hits do not register on the machine. A sabre fencers is known as a ‘sabreur’.
Foil
The foil fencer’s uniform includes a metallic vest (called a lamé) which covers the valid target area, so that a valid touch will register on the scoring machine. A small, spring-loaded tip is attached to the point of the foil and is connected to a wire inside the blade. The fencer wears a body cord inside his uniform which connects the foil to a reel wire, connected to the scoring machine.
There are two scoring lights on the machine. One shows a green light when a fencer is hit, and one shows a red light when her opponent is hit. A touch landing outside the valid target area (that which is not covered by the lamé) is indicated by a white light. These “off target” hits do not count in the scoring, but they do stop the fencing action temporarily.
Epée
The épée (pronounced “EPP-pay”), the descendant of the dueling sword, is similar in length to the foil, but is heavier, weighing approximately 27 ounces, with a larger guard (to protect the hand from a valid hit) and a much stiffer blade. Touches are scored only with the point of the blade. The entire body is the valid target area. Épée does not use the right-of-way in keeping with its dueling origin – he who first gains the touch earns the point. Or, if both fencers hit within 1/25th of a second of each other, both earn a point. However, it is equally important to have a sound defence for épée, since the entire body must be protected from a touch.
The blade is wired with a spring-loaded tip at the end that completes an electrical circuit when it is depressed beyond a pressure of 750 grams. This causes the coloured bulb on the scoring machine to light. Because the entire body is a valid target area, the épée fencer’s uniform does not include a lamé.