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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Hail and farewell, Barb
My friend Barb died last week. She was a fencing friend—one of those people from the opposite coast who I saw only at national tournaments. She was also one of the people who taught me how to run tournaments in the … Continue reading
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Layout & Strips, Part 2: Numbering Strips
Seriously? She’s going to write a post about numbering strips? Don’t you just start at the beginning with 1 and go on until you run out of strips? Once upon a time, it was almost that easy. When strips were … Continue reading
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Tagged bout committee, Fencing, strip management, Summer Nationals, tournament layout, tournaments, USA Fencing
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Tournament Layout & Strip Management, Part 1
For years, we bout commitee people have known we need to get better at collecting and organizing the expert knowledge we’ve accumulated while running national tournaments. We need to know what we know in order to transmit that knowledge—it’s tough … Continue reading
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Tagged Fencing, strip management, tournament layout, tournaments, USA Fencing
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Ooh, it’s science-y!
We made our (mostly) annual trip to the State Fair last weekend. Our usual ritual is to hit the livestock barns first (my husband as a kid often spent summers on relatives’ hog farms in Iowa—he thinks manure smells good) … Continue reading
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