Fencing Podcast - The Fencing Podcast
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Sean and Gav discuss the sport the love - the Olympic sport of fencing
Location:
United States
Genres:
Sports & Recreation Podcasts
Description:
Sean and Gav discuss the sport the love - the Olympic sport of fencing
Twitter:
@fencingpodcast
Language:
English
Episodes
And It's Goodbye From Us
10/2/2021
All good things must come to an end and this is also true of The Fencing Podcast. This is our final episode and, in truth, there is very little chat about actual fencing but we hope you enjoy it anyway.
Special Thanks:
To all of our Patrons and our sponsors Leon Paul. Without your support this podcast would never have been possible.
To Michelle Golding for the logo and support - your help was much appreciated in getting the good ship Fencing Podcast afloat.
To Chris Heaps whose banjo antics you hear in every spisode, many thanks! See you and your daughter on the circuit.
To the French Federation, never fear our twitter desk will still be manned there will be GIFS!
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS LISTENED OVER ALL THESE YEARS.
WE WILL MISS YOU ALL.
Duration:00:28:16
Episode 65 - The Tokyo Olympics Preview
7/22/2021
Gav updates us on his travel plans and his vital contribution to the Games. Kate, Gav and Sean put their heads together to make their predictions for the Tokyo Olympics and find that they are, disconcertingly, often in agreement. We also find that the Prediction Game that we’re playing against each other brings out our worst competitive instincts. We’d love to hear your predictions and the thinking behind them (see the description below and email: thefencingpodcast@gmail.com) The team also reveal the other sports that they’re looking forward to watching.
Duration:01:07:52
Episode 64: The Kids Are Alright
4/23/2021
This week Kate, Sean and Gav look back at their highlights of the Cadet & Junior World Championships in Cairo and look forward to the Olympic zonal qualifiers. Kate and Gav invent ASMR fencing commentary and Sean pays tribute to the late President of British Fencing, Keith Smith.
Sean also chats to Johnny Davis, the British team manager, prior to the European zonal qualifiers in Madrid.
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Choke by Sian Beilock: Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal about Getting It Right When You Have to: Amazon.co.uk: Beilock, Sian: 8601200807233: Books
Keith Smith obituary: INTERNATIONAL FENCING FEDERATION - The International Fencing Federation official website (fie.org)
All the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos
All the results https://fie.org/competitions
Duration:01:30:55
Episode 63: Ruthless Serial Winners
4/4/2021
Sean talks a load of foil (Kate and Gav get to chip in occasionally) as the action heads to Doha for the foil Grand Prix. The return of the game (foil, obviously) and while there were a lot of early departures, there were also a lot of familiar faces at the end of the day. Olympic places were decided, some big names miss out. Gav shares some horrifying mental images early in the episode so make sure you're sitting down. Good times and sad times for British Fencing.
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Doha Foil Grand Prix finals: https://youtu.be/RHETRaerUyA
Duration:00:55:17
Episode 62: An Abundance of epee.
3/27/2021
In this episode the team discuss a week of epee… well almost. It took several days for the final Epee world cup in Kazan to run! And as you’d expect in this era it was carnage. Gav gets very excited about the mens epee team final, quite right too. Kate even admits she watched some of it!
All the videos on the FIE YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/FIEvideo/videos
All the results https://fie.org/competitions
And you should definitely follow Dave Baker's Facebook page all about the qualification process https://www.facebook.com/FencingTokyo.
Duration:00:56:29
Episode 61: All The Sabre Dudes
3/19/2021
Episode 61: All The Sabre Dudes
Kate, Gav and Sean actually have some real, live fencing to talk about!! Budapest saw international fencing return with a men's and women's sabre World Cup and it was glorious. Everything you could have asked for including more Olympic qualification, some surprises, a few absentees, additional face masks and potentially some Olympic dress rehearsals.
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Budapest Women’s Sabre individual results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/151?tab=results
Budapest Men’s Sabre Individual results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/160?tab=results
Budapest Women’s Sabre Team results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/756?tab=results
Budapest Men’s Sabre Team results: https://fie.org/competitions/2021/827?tab=results
Budapest Women’s Sabre individual YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMXCsHCQQvA&list=PL_pQQho0KExzRCXBv1q1X2chu3nkCBLsq
Budapest Men’s Sabre Individual YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOszmAsBrWs&list=PL_pQQho0KExzx_sLOVTnBf5ffyMS1NygH
Budapest Women’s Sabre Team YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqb1nFNYdaY&list=PL_pQQho0KExwchEvT0L0t8eaUUrrU2vya
Budapest Men’s Sabre Team YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjBCF1eUmOU&list=PL_pQQho0KExx8A_BYE7qzUDM4g1vFcde3
Have a look for The Fenced In Podcast and Japan Sport Stories wherever you listen to podcasts and track down Stro: The Michael D’Asaro Story for a fascinating documentary of a life well-lived.
Duration:00:43:29
Episode 60: We’re Putting The Band Back Together
3/9/2021
Good news! Fencing is back … of sorts. It’s almost a year to the day and so we’ve decided to get the gang back together again. Hurrah.
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Upcoming competitions: https://fie.org/competitions
Duration:00:38:57
Episode 59: Agony, Ecstacy and the Wizard
3/2/2020
The gang are all together again and we’re edging towards the end of the Olympic qualification process which means some fencers will be celebrating guaranteeing their place in Tokyo while others will be heartbroken. Sean tracks the foil action from Cairo (men’s) and Kazan (women’s) as the team places are sorted out for the Olympics and some fencers do themselves the world of good for individual qualification. Kate gets very excited about the men’s sabre in Warsaw and finds her thing to have a minor rant about and Gav adds to the short list of fencing wizards Also, Gav gets a new follower on Instagram. You should follow him too. Plus, The Coolest Fencer on the Planet and what’s coming up next.
Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul. Their support for The Fencing Podcast is immense https://www.leonpaul.com/
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Cairo men’s foil results (no live stream)
Individual: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/138?tab=results
Team: https://fie.org/competitions/2020/761?tab=results
Warsaw men’s sabre:
Individual finals: https://youtu.be/Hd2y1JSud90
Team finals: https://youtu.be/JX_B6aGf4LA
Kazan women’s foil:
Individual finals: https://youtu.be/OnEZtwiGP98
Team finals: https://youtu.be/jg3E7Rw4rUQ
Follow Gav on Instagram, it will change your life @antifencer
Duration:01:13:12
Episode 58: Epee is Best
2/25/2020
It’s [mostly] epee day here at Podcast towers. Sean & Gav talk about the recent epee competitions: Doha, Barcelona, Vancouver. That’s a lot of epee. The Fencing is great but there’s something bothering both of them, listen and find out what.
And then there’s the Turin Grand Prix!
Also some interesting stuff in the fencing news, a new film has entered production and Race Imboden has an Ask Me Anything on Reddit!
Doha Epee Grand Prix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDjJGK1LPN8
Barcelona Womens Epee
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA40s4GODjkaJ9JeM0fBcdg/playlists
Vancouver Mens Epee
Individual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9w_PEzOZsE
Teams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgjuhdgXYU
Turin Foil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paZo-eu5wzU
Fencer - a new film in production
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zoe-saldana-boards-fencing-movie-fencer-casey-affleck-producing-1279201
Race Imboden’s AMA on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fencing/comments/f1qx37/hello_reddit_my_name_is_race_imboden_ask_me/
Duration:01:48:00
Who are you calling a Sabre Peasant?
1/31/2020
It's a bit late but in this episode, Sean and Gav are back from Paris with tales of daring and heroism (not their own). We cover all the action from Katowice (women's foil), Heidenheim (men's epee) and we mull over the results from the impossible to follow women's epee action from Havana. And Kate plays a blinder by being rude to Sean and Gav, insulting a prominent Russian women's sabreur and her own coach while talking us through the Montreal sabre Grand Prix. Top effort! The Coolest Fencer on the Planet goes to ….. someone you weren't expecting! Paris MF teams https://youtu.be/xpeGhLkw6nI
Women’s sabre finals Montreal GP https://youtu.be/vh8y-vuB3LQ
Men’s sabre finals Montreal GP https://youtu.be/SjLrZbmHSq8
Katowice women’s foil individual finals https://youtu.be/1EQ65_9dYMc
Katowice women’s foil team finals https://youtu.be/_91B6QNn6CQ
Heidenheim men’s epee individual final https://youtu.be/yZpo4SWONL8
Heidenheim men’s epee team finals https://youtu.be/vk9Oh4SBNNo
Havana women’s epee World Cup - meh! Sorry, no.
Duration:01:26:32
LIVE(ish) from the Paris CIP
1/11/2020
Sean and Gav are in France for their annual pilgrimage to the best World Cup on the planet, the Challenge International de Paris men’s foil (CIP). After a long day of commentary duties for the French Federation, we settle in to the hotel bar with a beer to look back on the day’s action. And it really was an incredible day of fencing.
CIP: Day 1 - Individuals
https://youtu.be/A6bAdefeLLM
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Episode 55: Our Globetrotting Team Check In
12/30/2019
All the pre-Christmas action from St Maur, Salt Lake City and Tokyo. Sean admits to jealousy as he stayed behind to man the Podcast desks while Kate competed in Salt Lake City while Gav, astonishingly, was tapped to be the hall announcer at the Tokyo World Cup. This event was also the test event for the upcoming Olympic Games next year!
Duration:01:04:27
Episode 54: Book club, Cairo silence, Brunet stars, more weird epee
12/9/2019
The gang are all together again! We have our first meeting of the Fencing Podcast Book Club with two fine publications to review. Sean has some fatherly words for Cairo following the men’s sabre and women’s foil World Cups held there recently, Gav gets out the spreadsheets to describe men’s epee action from Berne and Kate tells us about what it was like competing in the Orleans women’s sabre and why the home crowd were happy*. Also, trouble looming for Russia, The Coolest Fencer on the Planet and what’s coming up next.Note: We recorded this before the news broke about Russia and WAFA. Lots to mull over next time.
Duration:01:16:23
Episode 53: The Road to Tokyo resumes
11/22/2019
The 2019/20 season gets under way and Tokyo 2020 is on the horizon! Sean and Gav are back to tell you all about the early-season action from Tallinn and Bonn but where’s Kate?!? Sean describes the joys of being a travelling fencing fan and guest commentator while Gav finds a downside to having a big television. We’re encouraged by a faith in youth.
Duration:00:53:51
Episode 52: TEAMS from the World Championships
9/1/2019
The trio sit down and discuss the action from Budapest. Kate updates us on what she did on her holidays and we ponder the phenomenon of “taking the knee”. We also pick our top fencer of the year! Strap yourselves in as we end the season!
Duration:01:07:44
Episode 51: Wold Championships Special Part 3
7/21/2019
Women’s sabre and men’s foil. Sean and Gav reporting on all the action from Day 3 of the
World Championships in Budapest. Gav steps in to report on the sabre action and has two
giants of the sport renewing their rivalry. Sean covers the mayhem of the men’s foil and has
a good news story for British Fencing and France. The debate over Coolest Fencer on the
Planet is mercifully short.
Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul for getting us here https://www.leonpaul.com/
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Day 3 finals on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arROQ6VlLks
Duration:00:16:14
Episode 50: Wold Championships Special Part 2
7/20/2019
Individual men's epee and women's foil. Sean and Gav reporting from Budapest with a predictably unpredictable men's epee competition and some giants of the sport in women's foil. Sean was the voice of the fencing telly for some of the time and Gav had a day of bliss. Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul for getting us here https://www.leonpaul.com/ And to our equally lovely Patreon supporters, you keep the lights on! Come join them: https://www.patreon.com/join/730440? Day 2 Finals on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYN_Gz1ZpAc
Duration:00:19:58
Episode 49: Wold Championships Special Part 1
7/19/2019
Welcome to the first finals day from the World Championships in Budapest. Sean and Gav guide you through the action in individual women’s epee and men’s foil. Surprises, nerves, awesomeness, home crowds and Sean feeling smug about his sabre predictions. Thanks to our lovely sponsors Leon Paul for getting us here https://www.leonpaul.com/ And to our equally lovely Patreon supporters, you keep the lights on! Come join them: https://www.patreon.com/join/730440? Day 1 finals: Individual women’s epee and men’s sabre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zti-pj893w8
Duration:00:19:15
All the wild speculation (and techinical issues) pre Worlds
7/14/2019
After a technical hitch (no blame attached) which means this episode is quite a bit shorter than originally planned, Sean, Gav and Kate make their predictions for the upcoming World Championships in Budapest. Kate will be there competing, while Sean and Gav will be generally loafing around.
Duration:00:25:00
Say Hello to our new friend!
6/12/2019
Sean and Gav are joined by a new co-host - GB international sabreur Kate Daykin. Together they look at the end of the regular season from Paris (again), Shanghai, Dubai and Moscow. Sean presents his homage to Deriglazova, Gav reveals his most embarrassing fencing moment and Kate seeks haircare tips from Velikaya. Coolest Fencer on the Planet is more hotly contested than ever."
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Links to the streams
Paris (SNCF) - mens epee
https://youtu.be/_qKswkVbefg
Shanghai - mens foil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLNprnRFL_I&list=PL_pQQho0KExzVy3k10qRjSnvStI3A7UJX
Dubai
These are a bit all over the place but they’re all available on Fencing Vision.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0Ytci4wC6Y
Moscow - sabre GP
Women’s finals: https://youtu.be/iynOyROZK8k
Men’s FInals: https://youtu.be/os1hDi-76eM
Duration:01:38:44