Month: September 2014

Ethan and Dad in Fencing Masks Practicing Fencing Lesson on their Front Yard

By Andrew Lorenz 

My son, Ethan, began fencing earlier this year as a 9-year-old.  I fenced epee for a year and a half on a club team while I was at Arizona State, and I loved it.  After college, my work as a freelance television sports producer, editor, and broadcast manager kept me on the road, and I was forced to put on hiatus the sport I’d grown to love.  As my family grew, it became a goal of mine to get back into fencing, and one fateful day as I was walking home from the Campbell VTA station I saw my opportunity in the bold red letters shouting from across the street: Academy of Fencing Masters.

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Fencing: Summer Nationals 2014 Ohio

In the past few posts we wrote about a new qualification path for Y12 fencers. The life of a Y12 fencer is becoming much more challenging from one side, but much more exciting from the other, as most Y12 fencers now need to aggregate enough Y12 regional points to qualify for Summer Nationals.

The Laws of Nature say that if you loose energy in one thing, it will be compensated in another 🙂 I’m not sure that this law always applies to fencing, but this year it did—while Y12 fencers may have an added challenge in the new season, for Y14 fencers it will be much easier to qualify for the 2015 Summer National championship compared to this past year.

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