There are fencing competitions, and then there are fencing competitions. The fencing Grand Prix is a fencing competition that is unlike anything else in America. There are certainly other competitions in the world that have a similar stature in terms of size or media...
“Money can buy material things, but real happiness must be earned.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1750 “Money, so they say, is the root of all evil today.” - Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, 1973 “Mo money, no problems.” - Notorious B.I.G., 1997 It’s a cliche for a...
In fencing, there are these two extremes that we often see in parenting. There are coddling parents and hard driving parents, and each is on the opposite end of the spectrum. Most of the parents that we see fall somewhere in-between, which is a good thing, but...
The distance from 0 to 1 is not the same as the distance from 1 to 2. At least, not in fencing. It’s something that we’ve noticed when new fencers come in and start learning fencing, then competing. Initially, there’s this explosive growth. A fencer comes in to...
65% of the school aged kids will work in a profession that doesn’t exist yet. That’s according to numbers from the United States Department of Labor. It’s an extraordinary number! How can parents possibly prepare their kids for things that we can’t possibly know? This...
