SIX! Our fencers brought home a whopping six medals from the NAC in Richmond. Make sure you give a hearty pat on the back to: Davis Carvey – 2nd place Vet-70 Men’s Foil (also earned D16!) Jeff Johnson – 3rd place Vet Men’s Epee Ana Brainard – 7th place Vet-50 Women’s Foil Cyndi Glover – […]
Rain City will be hosting a Regional Junior/Cadet Circuit (RJCC) this December. The event is an important qualifying event for Junior Olympics and the July Challenge and they are shaping up to be potentially highly rated events. Participation is strongly encouraged. There is a $30 registration fee plus $40 per event if you register on […]
Our fencers had a fantastic showing at the Milwaukee NAC coming home with medals and national points. Lulu Tang and Dolly Lampson both cracked the top 32 in Cadet Women’s Foil. Unwilling to go home with just one strong result, Lulu also finished in the top 16 for Junior Women’s Foil! Ivan, Wesley, Shaw also […]
Our Cadet Men’s Foil team had a strong showing in the Milwaukee NAC beating Naples Fencing 45-32 and going out in the final to San Francisco Fencing Club. Congratulations to Ivan Ponomarev, Shaw Phillips, and Wesley Wong for taking silver representing Rain City Fencing Center!
Rain City is proud to announce that two of our epeeists have recently earned new ratings this week! Jeff Lucas took a bronze medal at Washington Fencing Academy’s D & Under and walked out with an E2016, his first epee rating! Monica Lomeli also had an incredible showing and took the gold medal at an […]
Monday, August 15 through Friday, August 19, 2016 Gear up for the new season with an intensive all-day competitive camp! Nationally recognized coaches Greg Jones, Christian Ford, Garik Balayan, Steve Colton, and Spencer Felt share their expertise training national medalists. We will combine footwork and cross training, technical and tactical exercises, discussions of strategy and […]
For our second medal of the 2016 Summer Nationals, Eric Zobel switches to epee and wins a bronze medal in Division III Men’s Epee. Congratulations!
RCFC veteran Davis Carvey took a bronze medal in Vet-70 Men’s Foil at this year’s Summer Nationals, clinching a spot on the US team for the Veteran World Championships for the fifth year running. Congratulations!
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Footwork is what gets you to the right place to make a touch. Being able to perform multiple footwork actions in a sequence is important both technically and tactically. Should an advance-lunge be two separate actions or one compound action? Read on. The difficulty of teaching preparations is that they involve compound footwork and […]
