Ashton Tameside Fencing Club

Established 1951

Three Fencers

Established for sixty years, Ashton Tameside Fencing Club is the most successful competitive club outside London.

We have won over sixty national and international titles. Our members have fenced for all the home countries and have competed in:

Commonwealth Games,
World Cadet, Junior and Senior Championships,
World Student Games
and four Olympic Games.

Many members have gone on to become coaches and run clubs of their own throughout the country.

We are a well equipped club with many qualified coaches and an armourer on hand to help everyone reach their potential.

All are welcome at our friendly sessions: beginners, novices and experienced fencers; competitors, present and future; coaches of every level.

We can provide demonstrations and have a go sessions

Find us

Ashton Fencing Club: Thursdays, 7 - 10pm
Tameside Schools Fencing Club and Tameside Sabre Club: Friday, 7 - 9pm
Our Locations including full addresses and maps.

Clubmark

We are working towards Clubmark status

Winton Cup

Congratulations to Ashton fencers Rachel Lansance (Womens Sabre) and Alastair Savage (Mens Foil) on their selection for the North West Winton Cup Squad

Adult Beginners Foil Course

This course is aimed at adult beginners which will take them through all the basic movements of foil fencing.

Beginners information

"I believe a fencer who has not studied the foil first will never fully realise his épée and sabre capabilities" - Nick Evangelista, The Art and Science of Fencing, McGraw Hill, 1996

Leon Paul Junior Series - Tameside Sabre 3rd JUNE 2012

Venue: Astley Sports College, Yew Tree Lane, Dukinfield SK16 5BL

Entry Form

Leon Paul Junior Series - Ashton Epee & Foil 25/26 FEBRUARY 2012

Results

Bob Anderson R.I.P. (15 September 1922 – 1 January 2012)

"I never took up the sword, I think the sword took me up."

This picture was taken during a demonstration of fencing for Ashton Fencing Club by the then National Coach Professor Roger Crosnier and Bob Anderson at West End School in Ashton c1951/52.

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