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 One of Ken Martin's super fine shots
Get rides in my fencing coach career has been so extensive a program like this trip. We have had an enormous amount to look for experienced incredibly much and simply been on the move constantly. Normally if you get tired when you experience so intense a scenario, but these days seems to be so wild that one's body almost has come up in a gear where you no longer get tired. It is as if the body just run away from experience to experience, approaching almost a stage where it becomes like a little child in waterpark in the summer, there is hyper and can not decide on what is most fun.
 Great to Fencing Club Triangle can assemble such a large group of people on the other side of the Atlantic in Virginia. Here is the ultimate gruppbillede on the trip. Note our dear Suburban to the right: From left to right: Ken Martin Ito Christie, Gustav Scharff, Malte Trier Morch, Betina Scharff Andersen, Jørgen Jessen, Jesper Brandt, Jens Landorph, Klaus Danckwardt, Simon Jeiner, Jesper Skovhus Poulsen, Sol Grum-Schwensen, Sidsel Scharff, Jonas Winterberg -Poulsen, Benjamin Jeiner, Jacob Long, Sophus LandorphFelix Caspersen, Anne Nielsen, Mathias Danckwardt
The trip south began back well from the start. Two of the tour lads Simon and Jens had to rent cars and why hire two general delig vans when you can get a Suburban. For those who do not know how this looks, I can tell that it's a huge American family car / tank / sports car / jeep / battleship that may come up, or down if you like, ca. 2 km to the liter when driving a little fast with it. In return you get a seven-hour trip to Virginia on a flying, silently and klimakontroleret carpet that just floats away from the road. The second car was a somewhat smaller Dodge, which I have only been running for a time at the moment, but I've certainly not heard any complaints from fægterne about this car. Otherwise, we went south through something called "the transferee east shore highway." A highway that runs completely out along the coast on anything that could resemble a peninsula. Most of the state of Delaware is actually a peninsula and this peninsula turns into Maryland, and eventually you come out on the southern tip, which is Virginia. Then you come over to "the Chesapeake bay tunnel and bridge," as a massive bridge / tunnel system leading DRIVER s over to Virginia Beach, where our fantastic hosts Belinda and George Scharff live with their two children Gustav and Sidsel. Both have gone to fencing with me, and therefore it was obvious the journey past the "Scharff" in VA beach.
 Jonas borrowed Ken Martins mates and took this picture of two happy boys coming up from the pool. Typical snapshot from their stay with Belinda and George
Stay with Belinda and George has been absolutely fantastic and has led to the trip here has come up among the heavyweights of successful triangle tours. They live in a really nice big house with room for an entire fencing club. The house is right next to a lake, which is actually probably is a bay. There is everything you could dream of delicious things like pool, spa tub, large TV room, delicious lush surroundings and good atmosphere. Here my children have played, bathed, played ball, hanging out, eating delicious food, relaxed and just enjoyed life totally. It may be said to have been a perfect base for our trip and can not say enough thank you to Belinda and George for their great help and hospitality on this trip.
Ken Martin was simultaneously also taken to VA Beach, but although we had some very big cars, so there was not room for him in them. So Ken had bought a bus ticket instead. But it was an extremely luck to Ken Martin could just coordinate the completion of his tour in the U.S. so that he might come in and help. Ken Martin was especially helped Felix and Sun in several of their difficult struggles. Especially Felix managed to take advantage of this and thus, could fence some excellent victories home in Y12 yesterday. So big thanks to Ken Martin for his assistance at this year's U.S. tour.
 A small picture view of the hall. It almost looks like something from the World Cup. There is also video of four colored piste and finalepodiummet. All this helps to give the right feeling of something big ...
The days are typically agreed to be cursed synergistic up and then go out into the hall, located approx. 15 minute drive from here. The first day was to fægtes Y14 herrerfleuret or it is in Danish called boy / girl. The only full-blooded boy / girl fights we have on the tour is Mathias and he had looked forward very much to fence that particular day. But as sometimes happens to athletes, so you can experience very unlucky day. Such days were Mathias as he started with the third match in the pool forstrak a muscle in his thigh and could barely stand for a guard, but well with ice and a good dressing meant that Mathias still won four matches in the pool. Mathias won surprisingly also a eliminationskamp where Mathias drove home the match without making a single attack. Something of a business here in America. Otherwise, our fencers have experienced huge resistance at this event. I can not comment on any event in Europe which gives children and young people so much resistance that American NAC events. The level is very high, there are many fencers and the atmosphere is extremely contest marked. I believe that our young fencers have labeled some of the pressure that our European and World Championships fencers mækede in Croatia and Russia. The difference is just that fægterne on this trip to America is much younger and thus learn from an early stage to cope with the pressures and the resistance they encounter and must deal with later in their careers. In my blog post from the two championships have just been reading about problems obtaining results at major championships, and how otherwise talented people lacking routine to perform at major championships. The problem I am sure that we have been tackled in a good way here in Virginia, and with luck will come these young fencers are not to suffer quite as much under the mental pressure that other fencers before them.
 Jonas gets this lesson before his match in the top 16
Jonas had to fence today and was with Sol the last two fencers in the fire here at the NAC tournament in VA Beach. Jonas fought really well and came in top 8 He was extremely close to going on to the top 4, but unfortunately had beaten in the quarterfinals. It was the only time on the trip here we had a fencer on the podium. When we return, and we do, then I am sure that fægterne are more ready for fencing a NAC tournament, while also more ready to fencing on something special USFA system where Y12 and Y10 (puslinge and miniorer ) fencer best of three matches to five points. Sophus had little difficulty in fencing this system and after winning the first match, so unfortunately he lost the next two. Sophus lost not because he was worse because he was not, but lost there against because he had not quite stand on your system. It is something we should have prepared better for next time. Otherwise it must be said that the U.S. rallies running ultra efficient. There is virtually no ventid once they begin. The judges are competent and professional. So professional that you can pretty much living as a fencing referee in this country. When they start eliminationskampene, they share tableau into four parts. Each part gets four slopes and four judges, who then run their entire quarter of the tableau is complete. This means that fægterne gets extremely low latency, and it runs very quickly, because the judges did not have to wait for the OC. It runs a little low-tech in hand, but then it goes much faster than Europeans reproduction events. Therefore, the entire tournament virtually finish around 15.00 o'clock and we could often achieve a great deal of tourist fun afterwards.
 Sol and his super-duper friend Sidsel front Virginia Beach Convention Center where the rally was held
Tomorrow we will be home and therefore I / we can set the sentence at a truly amazing trip where everything has gone up in a right unit. Everything from training in New York, sightseeing tours, the many social moments stay with Belinda and George and a super event. And when you think how fortunate it is that anything could be done. That we could live where we did that Belinda and George was in VA Beach at precisely the time when there was competition, and such. Ken Martin might come to the end of his big U.S. tour etc etc etc.. So when you put everything together and closes his eyes, then one can hardly understand why it all collapsed in the end. But in many ways, efforts are being sentence for foreign trips for the season 2011 - 2012. There are only a small trip to Poznan back in June, otherwise it is the end of an incredibly wide range of tours, and what better way could the season ends with that? I sit here and put the finishing touches on the blog. I sit outside in the garden of Belinda and George in 25 degree heat here in Virginia. I've spent a good 10 days in the U.S. with the most beautiful children and parents and my good friend Ken Martin. What more could have hoped and wished for ...
Thanks to all for a wonderful trip!
 Photographer Ken Martin here caught in the side mirror. In the background you see the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), the world's largest warship. The second ship behind the USS George HW Bush (CVN-77)
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