Today I participated in the Slough Open, held (logically) in Rickmansworth. I arrived prepared and was first on the piste. Sword in hand I walked up to the ref who proceeded to test my weapon. It failed the legal tests, so did my second sword. After accepting a red card I decided to scratch my first match and fix my best weapon. I did! I ended up winning one match 5-4 and loosing five 0-5, 4-5, 4-5, 2-3, 3-5.
I was ranked 100th after the poule out of 128, only the top 112 went through to the elimination round. But since I was ranked low I knew the guy I would face would be ranked considerably higher. Indeed he was ranked 29th, and he was Italian, notoriously awesome fencers. Here is the score procession=
ME vs ITALIAN
1-0
2-0
3-1
3-2
4-2
5-2
6-3
6-4
7-4
7-5
8-6
9-7
9-8
10-9
10-10
10-11
11-11
12-11
13-11
14-11
14-12
14-13
15-14
I won :)
I lost the next fight 6-15, but after 3 months not fencing I was really pleased with the result!
