Youth Beginners (ages 7-13)
Start: New classes start every FIRST WEDNESDAY of the month 5:30PM at Wheeler Hall, 500 Chestnut Avenue, Towson, MD 21204.
Students will build up agility and stamina in an age-appropriate but challenging class involving:
- Stretch, Strength & Agility Exercises
- Footwork
- Bladework
- Bouting
Coach Larbi Soufiane will introduce your child to the concepts of modern competitive fencing in a cooperative, kids-friendly atmosphere. Our program focuses on teaching the proper way to move (balanced advancing, retreating, lunging, acceleration units), using distance both for offense and defense, using the foil both to score on the opponent and to keep from getting scored on). At the end of the course, the students will get to experience fencing using the electric scoring apparatus.
The club provides all gear: masks, gloves, plastrons (a protective garment worn over the shoulder and armpit of the sword warm), and foils.
Our first Youth Beginners Class in 2020 will start on January 8, 2020, with new Groups starting every first Wednesday of the month!
Location: Wheeler Hall at Loyola Blakefield, 500 Chestnut Avenue, Towson MD 21204.
Sign Up Here!
[This link gets you to the Registration and Sign-up Menu of the Blakefield Experience. Click on Page 2 and look for Learn-to-Fence Sign-up!
If you have any questions about the program, please don’t hesitate to contact Coach Chris Amberger at jcamberger@gmail.com.
For questions regarding registration and sign-up, please contact Chantal Cross at ccross@loyolablakefield.org.
Fencing in Baltimore 
January 3, 2020 at 11:59 am
Is there a free adult fencing beginners class on first Friday?
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January 4, 2020 at 2:59 am
Due to [a complete and total] lack of response, we have not had any First Fridays since the fall. But if you want to come the second Friday, 1/10, (or any other Friday), we’ll be happy to turn you into an epee fencer anyway.
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