Click Here: For Fencing for Chideren 7 years old & older.
HERE FIND:
GROUP LESSONS for ages 15 and older ONLY .
What do you learn in
GROUP lessons with
CoachGerryD's lessons?
> Introductions to the Olympic Sport Fencing,
> explanation of the various
weapons Foil, Epee and Sabre,
> risk management and
safety equipment for the sport of fencing,
> Technical and Tactical fencing terminology and definitions,
> competitive
equipment,
> Overview, of organized fencing as a sport,
> Introduction to Motor Skill Training and the "Form Practice Drill",
>
Foot Work skill training,
> Blade Work skill training,
> critical and cognitive thinking in skills training,
> dynamic balance and "Exchange
Drills",
> rules of "Right-of-way or Priority"
in skill training and mini games,
>
offensive, defensive and counter-offensive actions,
> scoring and refereeing the fencing bout,
> the use of video for the analyses of fencing movements and timing.
Group FOIL Lessons for Beginners
age 15 and older!!!
Coach GerryD
Coach
GerryD
Group FOIL Lessons with
Volunteer Coach GerryD at
Tampa Fencing Academy "TFA"
venue.
Thursdays
from
7 pm –
9 pm.,
On the first day of training each monthpayment
is made to TFA's Head Coach Boyko Krastevitch with a check payable to "TFA"TAMPA FENCING ACADEMY
$65 per month.
"I practice OLYMPIC
fencing wid Coach Gerardo (GerryD) at de Tampa Fencing Academy Benue."
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Don, Pus n’…..
Meet your OLYMPIC FENCING SKILL COACH
Coach Gerardo Duran AKA. Coach GerryD at TFA 2006
Coach Gerardo Duran AKA. Coach GerryD at TFA 2006
Gerardo Duran A.K.A., Coach GerryD
"Working with people that strive for personal
excellence in the practice of Recreational Olympic Sport Fencing".
Coaching recreational sport fencing has
been part of Coach Gerardo's life since 1987. In that year he attended a fencing coach's Foil and Sabre seminar in Orlando
FL. From that day on, he knew that “he was a Fencing Coach". All that was needed now : the skills of "the
Fencing Coach".To start his new career, he attended in 1991 and 1992 the United States Fencing Association's (USFA) Coaches
College at the Olympic Training Center (OTC), Colorado Springs, founded “Tampa's Fencing Academy” Tampa Florida,
and became a lifetime member of the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association. Ten years later at age 62 it was time to retire from
his day job to dedicate 25 hours a week in teaching and coaching sport fencing at the Academy and local private schooled.
CoachGerryD revisited the Coaches College in 2005 for 3 weeks of coaches training (EPEE, FOIL,SABRE) and was privileged to
attended a seven day seminar “Sport Fencing- The Unity of Theory and Practice”, with renowned Polish Fencing Master
and Coach Professor Zhigniew Czajkowski.
"There is always something more to learn in this sport: better techniques,
tactics, pedagogy. Now that the USA has earned there first gold fencing metals at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics,
more people are attracted to fencing as a recreational sport. Everyone can
succeed in the sport of fencing. All that's needed is love for the game".
by WMD....
On October 2007 Coach GerryD transferred his job of Owner/Coach of Tampa's Fencing Academy to Coach
Boyco Krastavich, a Bulgarian educated fencing coach.
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and Definitions.
Coach
GerryD’s Individual and Competitive Training Program.
You can schedule individual OLYMPIC Fencing Skill lessons with Coach GerryD. The lessons are given
at this time, at the SPORTS CENTER Tampa Bay venue see link below.
This venue will no-longer be available for lessons after June 31, 2012.
The cost of the training is $15 per 45 minute sessions. As your individual training progresses (after your 16th
lesson) you should also participate in competitive training one day per week at the TAMPA FENCING ACADEMY
“TFA” venue
see link below.
Membership
at TFA is $65 per month for training one day per week. Volunteer coaches and Coach GerryD will be giving group lessons at
the TFA venue on Thursdays from 7 pm. to 9 pm., there is no additional cost to you as a TFA member.
Meet with Coach GerryD to discuss your personal program. Call: 813.767.1722 or, email: CoachD@TampaBay.rr.comfor an appointment.
TFA... LOCATION MAP LINK
TFA.... LOCATION MAP LINK
SPORTS CENTER.... MAP LINK
SPORTS CENTER.... MAP LINK
Join Coach GerryD
in lerning the discipline of
OLYMPIC FOIL FENCING.
What is the compelling reason for beginning your fencing career with the foil?
by Maestro, Nick Evangelista.
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The
foil was designed to be a teaching tool, and what does it teach? Here's the secret: the foil really and truly teaches only
one thing: Personal control. Underline this answer and memorize it, because by following this premise, you will become
an intelligent fencer, no matter what "facts" anyone else throws at you.
The conventions of foil fencing are not just some arbitrary directions set down and force-fed fledgling
fencing students because someone simply felt like including them on a list of rules. Nor are they there to establish manners
and politeness on the fencing strip. The conventions of foil fencing, the rules of right-of-way, of priority, of give and
take, are what they are because they reflect the proper behavior one should follow when fighting with a sword, and the key
word here is "should". Admittedly, this is not the gritty, anything goes, life or death reality of mortal combat,
but rather the kind of focused behavior that would, in fact, allow you to survive such an unpleasant encounter.
The rules reflect a logical process, and hence instill a sense of rightness of action, of when to do this, when not
to do that. They are based on what has been observed in the past as either useful or harmful. They are based on... Truth.
You attack when you have a clear opportunity, and you defend when you are being threatened by a well-defined offensive or
counter-offensive action.
The rules of foil fencing, then, require us forcefully to respond sensibly
rather than react mindlessly with knee-jerk reflexes, so that we may, in the situations we find ourselves in on the fencing
strip, hit and not be hit.
Group FOIL Lessons for Beginners
age 15 and older!!!
Coach GerryD
Coach GerryD
Membership
at TFA is $65 per month for training one day per week. Volunteer coaches and Coach GerryD will be giving group lessons at
the TFA venue on Thursdays from 7 pm. to 9 pm., there is no additional cost to you as a TFA member.
And Why Fencing? Fencing is one of the oldest Olympic sports which
grew out of the European tradition of swordsmanship. It is perhaps the only true Western martial sport form. It is elegant
and dynamic, as demonstrated in this video.
Why Fencing Non-fencers often ask me, "Why should anyone want to fence? After all, no one fights with swords anymore. What
can fencing do for me?"
True, it's probably unlikely that you're ever going to be fighting a duel, flashing
blade in hand down at the Local Park, or go into battle wielding a broadsword. Yet fencing, for all-its anachronistic splendor,
has much to offer anyone who decides to give it a try. To begin with, fencing is a superb and unique form of exercise. On
a basic level, it gives a good, solid workout that is fairly inexpensive to engage in. You'll build endurance, strength, flexibility
and the capacity to relax under fire. Coordination—which includes physical balance, timing, grace and poise—will
be improved. Fencing aids both circulation and respiration, adding further physical health benefits. Mentally, it is as stimulating
as chess. It enhances observational skills and the ability to think in an abstract manner (important for problem solving).
Ultimately, fencing blends both mind and body into an effective whole. Psychologically, fencing develops self-confidence.
Responding with a sense of authority during times of mental and physical stress becomes second nature. Fencing provides an
outlet for those who possess a highly competitive nature. It may also be used to channel aggressive impulses that might be
otherwise frowned upon by society at large. It also teaches self-control over a person's reactive nature. Fencing, of course,
develops patience. Furthermore, you should remember that any physical workout of a static nature runs the risk of becoming
boring to those who partake in it. Fencing may be many things, but it is never that.
Maestro,
Nick Evangelista
Competitive FOIL Fencing Practice.
ages
15 and older
with
VOLUNTEER COACHES at
TAMPA
FENCING ACADEMY.
Meet the TFA's Volunteer OLYMPIC FOIL FENCING COACH'S
Competitive FOIL, Fencing Coach
Miguel Marquez, A/K/A.
Coach Miguel
as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University trained in foil with Coach Dick Oles and was a member of Salle “Palasa” fencing club in Baltimore MD from 1983 to 1990. In 1991 Miguel earned the Bronze Medal in Foil for the National Team of Puerto
Rico at the Central American Games held in Caracas Venezuela. Miguel is now practicing Foil at the Tampa Fencing Academy "TFA"
on Tuesday and Thursdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Coach Miguel is going to work with Coach Mark Jones and Coach GerryD, giving
Foil Fencing instruction and practice to Foil Fencing students.
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Coach Mark Jones has
been with the academy from 1997 and in 1999 he began coaching Academy members as will as competing
in local Tampa Bay and national tournaments. Coach Mark is an excellent coach of Foil technique
and Armory.
"Working with people that
strive for personal excellence in the practice of RecreationalOlympic SPORT Fencing".
Coach GerryD in 2012
I became a fencing coach for the pleasure it seemed to promise,
but soon found it to be time consuming work, mixed with small doses of uncertainty and fear. I almost gave it up right at
the start. But before long the problems were surmounted or in some manner dealt with. From then on, the true rewards of fencing—
patience, fortitude, fitness, philosophy, self-respect and confidence, and a mastery of timing—became evident. For me,
these were the pleasures that becoming a fencing coach secretly promised and eventually fulfilled.
