It’s that time of year - when we’re all thinking about spooky things, scary things, Halloweeny things. We love this season! It’s a time for everyone to start thinking creatively and expressing themselves with wild abandon. The rules can bend, and you can literally be...
Seeing while fencing is a pretty important thing - keep in mind that you are holding a sword! Not to mention thrusting it at another person. Not to mention having one thrust at you. Glasses are here to help us to see, but just having something on your face when you’re...
Kids love showing off their love of the things that they’re interested in. Sometimes they’re all about a certain music performer or video game, it could be a book series or even a historical figure. For young fencers, that passion is fencing! We absolutely love that...
Think that fencing is something that you have to start when you’re a kid? You don’t! Fencing is something that you can start at any age. In fact one of the best times to start fencing is as an adult. There’s a great saying that goes like this: The best time to plant a...
This post is the second in a three part series on goal setting for fencers. While there is great information here, we highly recommend that you check out the first post - Goal Setting, Fencing and Your Lifestyle in order to get the most out of it! Creating goals that...
Yellow card for loose long hair on competitions! During last year’s Summer Nationals in San Jose we had many kids who participated in a big competition for the very first time in their life. Competition - especially the very first one - always creates a huge pressure...
Life is truly about a series of goals that we set for ourselves and then go on to pursue. Most people do this: set goals and go after them, without really thinking about it and without taking the time to work through a codified vision of what they need to do - they...
Fall is upon us and the world is winding down. That means that summer sports are also starting to wind down, as the rain starts and the temperature dips a bit. Kids who have been active all summer have started to dig into their schoolwork and to think about putting...
What a strange word "knickers" we use in the US for fencing pants, right? For British fencers, for example, "knickers" means female underpants. But in North America it's almost synonym of nobility! To be honest, looking at the dirty fencing knickers of my kids, with...
