Well, last Saturday was our division's Summer National Qualifiers. Found out that at my level and age, spending all my time teaching beginners, especially doing it with my off hand (I'm a lefty), turned my competition game into mush. It's been a long time I was DFL in a foil event..... :( On the other hand, missed qualifying for div2/3 epee by one slot, but earned a rating. Ran into the eventual gold medalist who did me in something like 15-5. He was much better than I was, but I ran out of... read more