winter foil camp

While school’s out, prepare for Junior Olympics (~now a month earlier~) and get ready to bring your best game to the second half of the fencing season.

Selecting your tactics, creating your setup, and changing based on new information are skills every bit as important as advance-lunges and feint-disengages. So is managing expectations and anxiety; the best mindset makes each competition rep a new opportunity!

We’ll explore:

• Mindset Manipulation: Can you hack your brain to get the most out of every moment?
• Predictions, Plans, and Preparations: Can you win the touch before the referee says “fence?” Are there setups to solve multiple problems, stacking the deck even if you guess wrong?
• Resilience 101: How do we respond when things go wrong? 

We’ll explore all these ideas, and set up a ton of situational bouting to simulate pressure in common situations. 

Coach Darius has taught at Rochester FC, Northwest Fencing Center, and Duke University. His students have won National Championships, NACs, ACC Team and Individual titles and represented their countries at World Championships.

Along the way, both coaches have developed national and international champions, world team members, and NCAA All-Americans.

RTF is a family-friendly, fun environment – a safe space for athletes to challenge themselves to improve. Our 3000sqft facility is specially designed for teaching and training, with 8 strips, a shock absorbing floor and custom video replay systems.

Camp is approrpiate for fencers age 10+ with at least 1 year of foil fencing experience, or by coach permission. Ask Coach Darius (darius@researchtrianglefencing.com) if it’s right for you!