by jwischniafap | Nov 22, 2019 | Fencing Beginners, Fencing Member Guest Posts
post by guest blogger Dr. Matthew Mitchell Some observations from my fall competition and refereeing experience will follow over the next little while, if you’d like to share them with other members. Hitting vs. fencing One night in fencing practice, answering a...
by jwischniafap | May 3, 2019 | Fencing Facts, Fencing Member Guest Posts
Whenever I tell someone that I am a competitive fencer, they usually ask one of the following questions: “Doesn’t it hurt to get stabbed with a sword?”“You must get injured a lot in a sport like that.” Now these are reasonable questions especially, to somebody who...
by jwischniafap | Jan 12, 2019 | Experienced Fencers, Fencing Member Guest Posts
Back to the strip. In the summer of 2017 I shepherded a small group of FAP athletes to the Solti training camp in Hungary. Earlier that summer I had suddenly realized how overweight and out of condition I had become over the last ten years and I started on the road...
