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NONE- I don't need em'
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10-27-2004, 11:11 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bedstuy, Brooklyn
Posts: 1,541
| How many lessons a week do you take?
How many lessons do you take a week, and for how long are they?
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10-27-2004, 11:19 AM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wokingham, Berkshire, England
Posts: 435
| I think this may depend on the experience of the fencer as much as the availability of a suitable coach. Our respected ex-olympic fencer coach always recommended that everyone should try and have a 15-20 min lesson at least once a week - he used to vary the times to suit the fitness and mental ability of the pupil. He admitted to being frustrated by some that would have forgotten the last lesson and therefore would not progress. Once the fencer becomes of a 'certain standing' you need to take lessons from a coach of a higher standing I think - in the UK at least, there is probably an adequate number od 'club level' coaches but an inadequate number of good level coaches able to draw out and improve fencers beyound that club level. | |
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10-27-2004, 11:21 AM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Reading, UK
Posts: 300
| Where is the "none, and I really need them" catergory? | |
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10-27-2004, 11:26 AM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: far from home
Posts: 337
| I took 2 lessons in 6 months so for me, it's around 0.07 lesson a week!  | |
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10-27-2004, 11:29 AM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: calgary,ab,canada
Posts: 2,413
| would love to get two per week but i'm at about one. | |
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10-27-2004, 12:40 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Chicago-land
Posts: 227
| Id love to take lessons twice a week, but thats alot of scratch, and our coach simply doesnt have the time.
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10-27-2004, 12:56 PM
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#7 | | The Judge
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,103
| i'd love to have 8+ a week. instead i'm lucky to get one every few months. i wish we had a coach. | |
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10-27-2004, 01:43 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: calgary,ab,canada
Posts: 2,413
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Originally Posted by noodle i'd love to have 8+ a week. instead i'm lucky to get one every few months. i wish we had a coach. | you don't have a coach?? how'd you get your B?? where's the nearest coach to you?? i drive over 2 hours.
i met someone from clemson and he said its like 2 hours or so to atlanta. there are good clubs and coaches there. you might want to go there a few times per month if possible. | |
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10-27-2004, 01:50 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Meadville, PA
Posts: 588
| 1 a week when I have the time to drive 2 hours each way.
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10-27-2004, 02:53 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Posts: 133
| how the hell could you take 8 lessons a week.
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10-27-2004, 02:53 PM
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#11 | | The Judge
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 4,103
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Originally Posted by glowstix you don't have a coach?? how'd you get your B?? where's the nearest coach to you?? i drive over 2 hours.
i met someone from clemson and he said its like 2 hours or so to atlanta. there are good clubs and coaches there. you might want to go there a few times per month if possible. | i "have" one or two. i take a few lessons a year from a very good epee coach who is about 2-3 hours away in columbia, and even 1-2 a year from another. but you can't really consider either one my coach per se, because of the infrequency of the lessons and the fact that i don't really practice at either of their clubs.
but. i'm a full time, poor college senior who also has to run the club here. i don't have the time (5 hours round trip, plus practice time is an entire day gone which i could have spent on homework or projects) or money to drive down and take lessons as much as i'd like to.
when i got my B i didn't even want it, i would've much preferred to earn it at a div2 (which i would've the week before i earned it if i wasn't an idiot; blew a 5 pt lead from 14 against the guy who won that nac) or some other national tournament. epee's like that, i suppose.
Last edited by noodle; 10-27-2004 at 02:56 PM.
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10-27-2004, 04:05 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The City of Roses
Posts: 905
| I take one lesson each weds and a lesson every other thurs. If I'm not taking a lesson on a thurs then it's just bouts all evening for me at the salle.
The average lesson lasts from 15min to 30min depending on the intensity of the lesson and what my coach is teaching me. All lessons at my salle are either either 1 on 1 or sometimes two people have a lesson at once. We very rarely have group lessons.
Each tues and thurs there is a group footwork drill that everyone is encouraged to attend but it's not necissary and is free, so I'm not counting that as a lesson.
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10-27-2004, 05:01 PM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: California
Posts: 136
| 4 times a week, 15-20 minutes each (lessons are longer if the coach gives lessons to 2 fencers during the same time slot). I'd have more lessons if I weren't so lazy. This doesn't include the conditioning and footwork that last for about an hour each practice. | |
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10-27-2004, 05:26 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004 Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Posts: 179
| I chose None, but only because there isn't a coach within 4 hours of me. | |
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10-27-2004, 05:46 PM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland/BFC
Posts: 99
| If you consider group lessons, 4 a week, a private, 2 class lesons, and a conditioning. And a nice guy give me a free private lesson like every other week ( we call it drilling but i get allot more out of it then he dose)
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10-27-2004, 06:57 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: LaLa Land
Posts: 288
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Originally Posted by fencerontheline How many lessons do you take a week, and for how long are they? | not counting group lessons 1 and it is for 30 minutes..but i have 2 or 3 45 minute to 1 hour group "lessons" a week.. and I help with the little beginner kids...(i learn by helping them...) | |
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10-27-2004, 10:48 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Bedstuy, Brooklyn
Posts: 1,541
| I take about 5-6 lessons a week, at 25-30 minutes each. It's hard work, but I'm getting better for it- so I'm cool with the way things have worked.
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10-27-2004, 11:20 PM
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#18 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Keele, Staffordshire, UK
Posts: 27
| 2 a week, 2 hours each. | |
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10-28-2004, 01:44 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: West coast
Posts: 815
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Originally Posted by fencerontheline I take about 5-6 lessons a week, at 25-30 minutes each. It's hard work, but I'm getting better for it- so I'm cool with the way things have worked. | I'm jealous. I want that many lessons!
I get two a week. Ranging from 30 to 45 minutes.
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10-28-2004, 09:57 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NC
Posts: 205
| 3-4 group practices a week, theoretically 2 hours apiece, but for the most part, the competitive types stay until they cut the lights and kick us out the gym. 1 lesson most weeks (20-30 minutes). Once a month or so, I try to skip a group practice and visit another club for free fencing against people I don't see every day.
(And for whoever it was who thought a 30-45 minute drive was the exclusive province of Olympic fencers, those are all 40-minute drives. Work is a mile from home -- fencing is my commute. Not atypical for people I know, as far as I can tell.) | |
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