Head Coach Dave Griffin, with decades of coaching experience, focuses on epee. Many of Coach Dave’s students have medaled at NCAA and in national tournaments. Coach Dave Nemazie, an active competitive fencer, coaches children.

Fencing is a great exercise and a way to learn new skills while making new friends from a diverse background. The sport requires discipline, balance, coordination, and sportsmanship. It helps youth develop quicker reflexes and the ability to make fast analyses of situations, earning its nickname of “Physical Chess.”

The modern sport of fencing only remotely resembles the old dueling styles of past centuries. Today’s fencers wear a steel mesh mask, strong protective clothing, and use a flexible blunted blade. The object of the sport is to earn points by scoring touches within a specified target area. In a 2008 study of Olympic Sports, fencing was one of safest sports – safer than badminton and table tennis.