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January 2026 Adelaide Swords Club news
Published Mon 19 Jan 2026
ADELAIDE SWORDS CLUB NEWSLETTER
Happy New Year, and we hope you’ve had a relaxing break!
The club opens Monday, 19th January
Saturday morning classes start on 31st January
Monday Night Youth Training starts back on 2nd February
Welcome to 2026 and the first newsletter of the year.
Membership is now due for 2026 - https://www.adelaideswordsclub.org.au/registration
ASC membership is linked to your FSA licence, so you can do it all in one! Also, please note that if you are not a member, you are not covered by insurance, so you can train but not fence. We’ll have a laptop at the club so you can join on the spot.
2026 Fees
A quick heads up that the fees for 2026 kids’ classes are increasing to $120 per term as we have increased our coaches’ rates, which are now in line with the Sporting Organisations Award rates.
2026 Kids’ Classes Terms
- Term 1: 31st January – 4th April
- Term 2: 2nd May – 4th July
- Term 3: 25th July – 26th September
- Term 4: 7 Oct - 12 December
Training
Monday night Youth training starts back on 2nd February
Additional training
ASC, with the support of FSA, is in the process of locking in additional training on Tuesday nights, especially for fencers planning to go to the Australian Junior Championships and AYC Final. We’ll keep you updated.
2025 FSA End of Year Awards Presentation
ASC was well represented in the 2025 FSA awards. Congratulations to our ASC winners
- U11 Boys Foil - Gerald Guo, U13 Girls Foil - Heidi Newton, U15 Girls Foil - Gabrina Guo
- U17 Women’s Foil - Gabrina Guo, U17 Men’s Foil - Hugo Brammer,
- U17 Women’s Epee - Serena Yao, U20 Women’s Foil - Sunday Skrabanich,
- U20 Men’s Foil - Hugo Brammer, U20 Women’s Epee - Serena Yao
- Open B Women’s Foil - Gabrina Guo, Open B Women’s Epee - Serena Yao
- Life Membership of the AFF - Leon Thomas
- Robyn Chaplin Memorial Cup – ASC, Open Women’s Foil - Georgina Barratt
- Open Men’s Foil - Michael Dzodzos, Open Men’s Epee - Alex Burgun,
- Volunteer Award - Erwin Lam
ASC One Touch Epee and Yearly ASC Awards
Thanks to all club members who joined us for our last event of the year, Unexpected Epee, aka One Touch Epee. Congratulations to Alex Burgun, who won it, and we got to wish him happy birthday too!
The winners of the 2025 ASC awards were:
Coaches Awards for Sportsmanship & Commitment to the Sport
- Junior Fencer – Sunday Skrabanich
- Senior Fencer – Oliver Pring
- Spirit of the Club Award for Outstanding Service to the Club – Connor Bury
- President’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Club off Piste – Adrian Murphy
Upcoming Competitions
- 2025/26 Australian Junior Championships & 2025 AYC Final, 13-16 March 2026, Melbourne
- 2025/26 Australian Fencing Circuit (AFC#4), 17 - 19 April 2026, Sydney
- 2025/26 Australian National Championships, 28 May – 1 June 1 2026, Brisbane
- The FSA competition calendar will be released very shortly.
And finally, we’d like to say thank you and farewell to Myka Vangelis Plant, who has been a great contributor as both a fencer initially and more recently as a coach at ASC for a long time! Myka has decided it’s time to move on and will no longer be coaching at the club. We’d like to thank him for all his work and service to the club and wish him all the best for the future.
All the best,
ASC Committee
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