Day in the Life: Denver Junior Olympics 2023

Join me for another vlog, this time for one of the smoothest tournaments I've ever been to! Enjoy this sneak peak into tournament armory work.
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[@samsignorelli]

So were the magnet handles in the reel crate where we left them after Louisville??

[@mdeb2007]

The pistes you are using are in much smaller sections than we use in the Uk & seem to fit together in a different way too. It would be intersting if you coulsd talk us through them some time.

[@askanarmourer9549]

These ones are from absolute so they manufacture them in smaller sections than Leon Paul (which is what I'm assuming you're using in the UK given it's their home base). They do both use the tongue and groove interlocking system though :)

[@mdeb2007]

@@askanarmourer9549 as you say both use tongue and groove. The LP ones have a foam backing which means the grounding wire has to be clipped to the piste, which is seldon satisfactory.
We also use a lot of rollout pistes which is another story..

[@askanarmourer9549]

@@mdeb2007 These have the same foam on the back, they're really very similar in most ways other than panel size. And yes clipping the ground cord rarely stays so we just shove more copper mesh under and that does the trick.

[@samsignorelli]

@@askanarmourer9549 The used to be aluminum blocks that fit under the strip panels and had a 4mm hole drilled for s body cord pin. I would swear we used those at 2012 Nationals, but I haven't seen them for years.

[@samsignorelli]

HA! Your strip call at 24:16....I saw ms Danielyants at our scholastic championships yesterday...no issues with her lame.

[@mdeb2007]

With Weapons Controll what are you actually checking? Mask, gloves, lames, body wires, head wires & weapons? or just some of them?
Also you appear to be checking one person at a time rather than one person just checking gloves & masks etc. How long does it take to check someone?

[@askanarmourer9549]

Masks, lamés, gloves, and wires. Weapons are done by the referees on piste. We do one fencer to an armourer as everyone there is nationally certified and knows how to check everything rather than needing to train volunteers. Plus given the number of people checking in we find different stations tends to lead to more confusion. And it varies, epee is much fast than foil which is faster than sabre, and the more broken items also slow things down. We're working on getting more definite numbers

[@mdeb2007]

@@askanarmourer9549usually we run it so that each armourer tests specific kit. We aren't always given enough space for everyone to test lames. Most of us at the last comp were the equivalent of your National level and everyone could swap stations as required.
Body wires always take longer than they should.

[@samsignorelli]

@@mdeb2007 One armorer per specific item works for smaller events...we did that for a pentathlon world cup in Palm Springs in 09. One guy ran masks, another cords....I was on the gabrit (which we don't see, even at US Nationals)
But those numbers are small....at a NAC there can be 2000+ individual competitors over 4 days. And first control at the end of setup is always a bloody great nightmare.
Those logistics just don't work at a NAC event size. ANYTHING that slows the process down is to be avoided.
Kiah...how many people did we think we ran through at Louisville during first control....500?