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Challenge Internationale de Paris: Special ...

Sean is currently in Paris for the annual Challenge Internationale de Paris. While there he managed to send out a brief of the highlights of each round and caught up with Greg Massialas and Erwann Le Pechoux.

Challenge Internationale de Paris: Special Report

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Episode 39: A jaunt to Paris, an interview with Race Imboden

Sean and Gav go to Paris for the Challenge International de Paris and spend all weekend working. While in Paris we met up with the lovely Arianna Scarnecchia of PianetaScherma who have kindly allowed us to share an interview with Race Imboden. While we are in Paris, elsewhere in Europe Heidenheim men's epee was in full swing. It’s a stupidly big competition and sees the first run out of the new non-combativity “Unwillingnes to Fence” rules. Katowice women's foil sees a mixture of the familiar and the new.

Note: You’ll hear some heavy breathing in the background. You’re not hearing an asthmatic pug, Gav picked up a cold while he was in France!

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Paris men’s foil individual (with commentary provided by us.
Unfortunately the audio quality is terrible): https://youtu.be/XkOmuvDvSBg

Heidenheim men’s epee individual finals: https://youtu.be/Nrc4EzUvAp4

Katowice women’s foil individual playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pQQho0KExzavF_D0er_ReGbiU8zbCI5

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Bonjour from Paris

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Bonjour from Paris

Last weekend were in Paris for our yearly trip the Paris Challenge International de Paris.

For us the action started on Friday morning when Sean was on site for initial the phases of the tournament. He also managed to sit down with Enzo Lefort, Alex Massialas and Ben Paul from Leon Paul. After surviving Parisian traffic, Gav trundled into town with his photo gear that evening.

As usual the CIP was a great tournament with lots of drama throughout the day.  We managed to sit down after the major sessions throughout Saturday to give our impressions.

The event is available to stream on youtube via FFEscrime, here's the link to their playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636SUw1qVbs&list=PLhcOp4IIwYBq8pJLVGWQbi7GOtxEsJItu

We'd like to give a massive shout out to our pals at FFEscrime for making our visit really enjoyable.

And also to our sponsors Leon Paul for helping sort out everything for us.

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