You’re watching an NBA basketball game with players who are paid high salaries to help win games. They have practiced for hours upon hours since they were young boys. They have probably shot thousands of free throws and could easily hit 10 in a row in practice. But...
It’s fencing tournament day and you've been running around from the moment you arrived. From check in, to warm up, straight to pool play afterward, and then to direct elimination. You are getting more and more agitated as the day wears on, and your fencer is getting...
While it is your fencer’s primary job to improve their skills, learn their craft, and have fun, the parent’s primary responsibility is simply to offer support. As a parent, you know that your encouragement can mean the world to your child. However, it isn’t always...
By Andrew Lorenz As we approach Autumn, I've done some reflecting on my son's first two seasons of fencing. It had been a long-time goal of mine to involve Ethan in fencing, a sport I grew to love in college. Ethan started in the Beginner's class in January,...
Congratulations to Bartosz Kuligowski for taking Gold and to William Elloway for taking Bronze in the Southern California RYC in Pasadena, CA in Men’s Y10 Epee! Both boys showed great fencing and a great friendship cheering for and helping each other. This is the...
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...
Fencing is both an ancient tradition of honor and a timeless art. The earliest records of fencing in single combat include the combat between Achilles and Hector in Homer’s The Iliad and a manual of fencing called A Treatise on Arms published in the 1400s. However, as...
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...
Bartosz Kuligowski won his first SYC this weekend, scoring an impressive 10:3 win in a final bout in the Y10 Men’s Epee tournament in the North Texas SYC! Bartosz started fencing at AFM a year ago, just after we opened our doors, and within just one year he earned...
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