Abingdon Fencing Club - Adult Fencing

Abingdon Fencing Club started in the mid 1970's. We have a strong membership made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and covering an age range from 8 to beyond retirement age. We have a fairly equal ratio of male to female fencers. Most of our fencers come from the local area but we do have some that travel further to fence with us.

We are able to offer a friendly group that is a mix of competitive and social fencers, in a combination of abilities and weapons.

We have coaches in all three weapons.

We have several electric scoring boxes and a reasonable stock of equipment to lend out for an evening.

The annual membership fee for adults is £116 and there is a visitors fee of £5.00 per evening for non-members.

The adult fencing session starts at 8.30 p.m. with a warm up and footwork session run by one of our two professional coaches. There is then a choice of organised coaching in either our sabre group, run by Herman du Preez, or in our foil and epee group, run by Alan Knowles, or fencers are free to fence each other. There is additional cost for the sabre or foil/epee groups.

All adult fencers must be members of British Fencing.