Gamify Everything! All fencers of all levels, just like all athletes, enjoy games! Structuring training activities into game based approaches can substantially improve competitiveness, focus, technique, enjoyment and many other elements of fencing capability. This workshop will showcase a range tried and tested exercises and approaches for individual foil lessons that are effective with all...

Developing Fencers Tactical Effectiveness This workshop will explore how a coach can, over time, expand a fencer's tactical intuitions and capabilities moving towards a fencer making self aware and deliberate tactical choices. Fencing is first and foremost a sport of tactics By ensuring that any practice is set in a tactically coherent context the fencer...

Using 'Impossible' Exercises. This workshop will present and practice a set of tried and tested 'impossible' exercises. These exercises enable the coach to create stimulating and challenging practice, even for the most elite fencers. By calibrating the 'impossible' exercise, the coach determines the level of success the fencer achieves in the exercise and so creates...