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Brought to life in 2016, this blog looks at our sport in all its forms and from all angles. Are you ready to explore the world of fencing?

What do you do when the world shuts down?
By benpaul on 2nd December 2020

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What do you do when everything shuts down?Get to work making everything you can better! The downtime in fencing has had one positive effect for Leon Paul, and that is time to work on design and development. In these challenging times, we have tried to look to the future and to...
Timing is everything by Enzo Lefort
By benpaul on 21st October 2020

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Those who know me well, know how dedicated I am into training. When I’m at training, I’m always dedicated at 100% and sometimes more. I want to make count every training, otherwise I have the feeling to lose my time. But once I step a foot outside the gym, I...
Please help a future fencer
By benpaul on 10th June 2020

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Dear Fencers, Sadly, I have bad news at this time and would like to ask the fencing community for support. Poldek a fanatical fencer at the age of only seven has been diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. The last time I met Poldek, he had a plastic fencing mask and sword and...
Rule regarding Epee Inside Guard Sockets.
By benpaul on 20th May 2020

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The FIE Congress made a new rule regarding Epee Inside Guard Sockets, so if you are an Epee fencer who competes at FIE competitions this post applies to you, please read carefully. The new rule is as follows: Epee Guard Sockets – NEW – Application 2020-2021 Season m.18.3 The socket inside the...
A Mask Strap Hack
By benpaul on 1st May 2020

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I was thinking about how fencers could repurpose items of equipment to make any face covering mask fit better and be easy to take on and off one handed. I came up with this great hack, check out the video below: Basically, you can take the Contour-fit plus strap off your...
No More Black Boxes
By benpaul on 19th February 2020

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Here are a few updates on our drive to become plastic free and to have all packaging either made from fully recycled material or be fully recyclable. We were very proud of our updated packing in 2012, we came up with a nice design that was a matt black with a...
Project Zer0: The Mag-Tec Zer0 grip. Balanced yet lighter.
By benpaul on 13th November 2019

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Here at Leon Paul, we have always been obsessed with removing weight from our equipment. Science tells us that the lighter the object the less force required to move it. A lighter object can be accelerated and moved faster, and stopped and controlled with less force. However, balance is also...
Cooking with swords
By benpaul on 17th October 2019

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At Leon Paul we have a club that has one rule; you don’t talk about it. The reason we don’t talk about it is not because it is dangerous and has Brad Pitt in it, but because it is really quite boring. This makes this blog post hard. The club...
Tokyo Legacy
By benpaul on 9th October 2019

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Leon Paul and the Japanese Fencing Association have partnered up for a second time. This is an exciting time for us to be involved with Japanese fencing. The first time we worked together was around the 2012 Olympics, I had been inspired by a speech by Yuki Ota that he...
Environmental strategy what's our plan? Ben Paul - Part 2
By benpaul on 29th August 2019

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BYO!! (bring your own.... water, not alcohol) If you have been reading our previous blog posts, then you will know we are continually looking at how we can reduce our environmental impact on the planet. Part of the project is to reduce our plastic use and plastic footprint. Leon Paul runs...
Environmental strategy! What's our plan? Ben Paul - Part 1
By benpaul on 29th August 2019

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Dear Fencers, I am Ben Paul one of the owners of Leon Paul. I have become increasingly aware of the environmental issues we face in today’s world. As I have read more about these issues, I have become more concerned about our future on this planet. The next generation will have...
Personification of a Sword - the Next Level of Fencing Equipment Customisation?
By benpaul on 22nd May 2019

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Flag designs on fencing masks (did you know we invented the flag mask?), team-inspired coloured uniforms for the FIE fashion show... here at Leon Paul we definitely have a sweet spot for personalised fencing equipment. And who knows: maybe in the future there will be customised fencing weapons? The first tests by our director Ben Paul do look promising... read on to learn more!

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Don’t put me in recycling! Our new packaging has something to tell you
By benpaul on 9th May 2019

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#LeonPaulgoesgreen? Yes, that's our aspiration for the years to come. We're currently implementing a series of measures in order to improve our company as a whole and make it (even) more ecologically and socially responsible. The first step of many? The packacking of our products. As a matter of fact, if you buy regularly from Leon Paul, in the next weeks and months you may start noticing a change in our plastic packaging. This sounds simple, but it gets complex fast... read on for some guidance by none other than our director Ben Paul.

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New FIE rules and the sponsorship game
By benpaul on 9th January 2019

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At their annual congress held in Paris in December 2018 (right before the gala hosted to celebrate their 105th birthday, which we've blogged about extensively), updated their sponsorship rules, allowing for more advertising. These new rules are a fantastic opportunity for fencers to help finance their athletic dreams. You have 10 spaces for representing brands and if you are a top fencer or even an aspiring young fencer, new funding possibilities might now open up for you.

Our director Ben Paul gives you an overview over the new rules and shares his tips for athletes.

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When a fencing manufacturer goes designer (3/3): 3D printing a fencing mask
By benpaul on 21st December 2018

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Fencers! The mask worn by world class sabre fencer James Honeybone on the runway at the FIE 105th anniversary gala has caught the attention of lots of you! In the last part of our series about how we came up with the ideas for the fencing fashion of the future...

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