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Month: July 2016

5 Ways We Are Inspired by Olympic Fencing

5 Ways We Are Inspired by Olympic Fencing

The Olympics are more than just any sporting event, they invoke within us something beyond. Hearing the Olympic fanfare alone is enough to make most of us experience a heart that rushes forward, pulse racing as we get swept away with the wonder and amazement. Olympic...

16 Things that Only Fencers Understand

16 Things that Only Fencers Understand

There are many things in this world that, let’s face it, you can only understand if you’ve experienced them. One of those things is fencing – there is specific stuff that will only make sense to you if you’ve been a fencer. That’s not to say that there’s anything...

Why Our Kids Need to Dream Big

Why Our Kids Need to Dream Big

Are we teaching our kids to reach too far? It’s highly unlikely that our children will actually make it to the Olympics, so why fill their heads with big dreams that can’t possibly come true? The impossible happens all the time It’s true, the odds are long on a given...

Why fencers should write a resume of failures

Why fencers should write a resume of failures

It’s natural for us to parade around the amazing things that we do – we celebrate our successes. But just telling everyone out there what we did that was so great doesn’t really tell the whole story does it? Fencing is very much about learning how to grow from things...

23 Ways to Enjoy Fencing at Summer

23 Ways to Enjoy Fencing at Summer

The long summer days mean that there’s a lot more time to do things that we wouldn’t normally get to do, a time to hang out and get into all kinds of good stuff. Sometimes figuring out what kind of good stuff to get into can be a challenge - it’s easy to stay in our...

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