On Strip/At Home Mini Training Series: Tennis Ball Exercises Part 2
Training video: https://youtu.be/5BmvV9eWq18 In our next class, you will need to do footwork and catch a tennis ball, so here are some practice exercises to prepare you and help build hand eye coordination. The first part are some warm up exercises. If a particular exercise is easy for you, skip to the next one. The […]
On Strip/At Home Audio Resilience Series: Nick Itkin Interview
US #3 rank men’s foil fencer, Nick Itkin, joins the All-American Fencing Academy’s discussion about resilience as an athlete and as a fencer. Specifically the ability to stay in the game and turning around your own negative thinking while we watch his 2019 Shanghai Grand Prix round of 8 bout with Tommaso Marini. In the […]
May 2020 Update
You really don’t have to read all of this, this is supporting information for everything I say here!: https://youtu.be/lqPGTXnr8n0 USA Fencing Now Sanctioning Classes, Events, and ProgramsSo good news, USA Fencing is now sanctioning classes, event, and programs. But the bad news is we are also mandated by North Carolina pandemic closure policies. It won’t […]
On Strip/At Home Series: April 2020, 4th Week, Fencing Class
Later this week, I’ll make a post about what we might need to prepare for as US Fencing and North Carolina begins to re-open. It seems like US Fencing will allow us to re-open soon, but North Carolina’s phased re-opening may set us back. Parents and brothers and sisters, there are portions of the class […]
On Strip/At Home Series: April 2020, 3rd Week, Fencing Class
Sorry I’m a little late with this post. I usually finish typing this on Tuesday night and send it out Tuesday night ready for you Wednesday morning. Some quick notes for parents…there are sections in the videos that show you how you can do partner help with your student. They aren’t difficult to follow and […]
On Strip/At Home Mini Training: Improve Speed and Reaction Time
Welcome to another mini training session for our On Strip/At Home Training Series. All you need this time is a smart phone. Either an Android or an iphone. Youll need to download a free app. On Android, we used IPSC Shot Timer, you can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stimer There are free similar apps on iphone. […]
On Strip/At Home Training Series: Second Week April Fencing Class
It’s the second week of April, I hope everyone is weathering the stay-at-home policies. Please think about our friends and families that are dealing with the coronavirus. We hope everyone also had a good easter! Here’s this week’s class! Remember you can do it all in on go, or you can always break it up, […]
On Strip/At Home Mini Training: Improve Your Lunges
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy. The CDC does recommend wearing masks now when you’re out, so make sure you’re wearing masks if you do have to go out. Also, the fencing mask is not a reasonable mask to use. 🙂 Here’s this week’s On Strip/At Home mini training. Not like a craft […]
Special Audio Edition: Loose Barrel Podcast has Coach Gerhard as a Guest
Patrick Lausi, Head Coach for Edge of America Fencing in Charleston, SC, also hosts a podcast called Loose Barrel. He invited me on his podcast to talk about current events, All-American Fencing history, some of our bouts together and other random topics. You can listen/watch the podcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OijHbfH1wA You can listen in the player […]
April, Week 1, Fencing Class
Welcome back! And welcome to April! We hope you had an opportunity to try some of the crafts we posted earlier. We particularly liked the reaction ball. Highly encourage you to make one, it will help increase your hand eye coordination and your reaction time! Also, if you listened to the interview I did with […]