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March 5, 1936
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EDITORIAL
The Riposte offers for your approval on page 3 a new feature – the first of a series of articles on the technique of judging and directing, by our Technical Advisor.
There is no question that one of the most imperative needs of fencing is better quality of officials. Several abortive attempts to establish judging schools have ended disappointingly. While practical experience is still the best method of improving our officials, we hope that this series of articles will stimulate our fencers to study the problems of judging and directing.
If we want better judges, the fencers themselves must supply this want. As Mr. Harold Van Buskirk, Captain of our Olympic Team, has said, the men who "crab" most about the judging at competitions are usually the ones who make no effort to improve their own abilities as officials and who do not want to assist in the running of tournaments because "they have no time."
The preliminary articles will necessarily be elementary in nature, with the more interesting and difficult problems scheduled for later issues. So far as we know, these articles will be the first ever published in this country on the subject of judging and directing. Throughout, Miguel de Capriles will endeavor to maintain the intimate vein of our paper, and will welcome communications from our readers on special problems that may arise.
He has been voted one of the two outstanding three-weapon directors in the past few years, and he is President of the Jury of the A.F.L.A. We feel, therefore, that his articles will carry the weight of authority, but we want to emphasize his wish that the active fencers cooperate with him, by criticism and suggestions, in doing as good a job as possible.
