You're Dream Fencing "Vacation"

[jspierre]

If you had a week to train anywhere in the world for a week, where would it be and why?

Pls give at least the name of the club/training center, and ideally the coach(s) and reasons why.

Oh, and pls list your weapon.

[mrbiggs]

I'd train in France because they have good coaching there, from what I hear, and I know enough French to get by. Excepting languages, Italy, because they're very good at foil right now.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

In atlanta taking epee lessons from Hossam Hassan. Like... a day long lesson, for 7 days. Strenous? yes. Worth it? Absolutely.

[ra2000a]

this is an easy one:

Italy with Aldo Montano!

[JackSparrow]

For foil, you could do worse than one of GFC's training camps.
http://www.gfc-world.netfirms.com/home_index.html
Not sure that it's possible to do any better though

[jspierre]

For me, a week at MTK in Budapest, with whoever coaches Ivan Kovacs (Gabor Udvarhelyi??). That would be awesome - just a week to eat, drink, and fence. I bet something like that would pay huge dividends in terms of progress.

I think a back-up, or photo finish would be a week wherever in Russia (or the Ukraine??), with whatever coach most embodies Russian epee technique.

[Calder]

Easy....as a foilist I would have to say a week at the Sergei Golubitsky Fencing Center in Venice Italy. http://www.gfc-world.netfirms.com/

Venice and foil fencing combined into one week long orgy of cultural overload.

[Zilverzmurfen]

For me (épéeist) this is a relatively easy choice - I would LOVE to spend a week at the Bern Fechtclub in Bern, Switzerland.

Their M'aître is called Gabriel Nielaba. Unfortunately I don't know much about him more than that he has trained/trains some of the best swiss fencers, and Switzerland has some great fencing. From what I've heard he's also supposed to be a very nice bloke.

On top of that Bern is the most beautiful and romantic city I have ever been to!
If you're ever anywhere nearby - don't miss it!




Ps. Dare I - as a foreigner - point out that it's actually called "Your Dream Fencing Vacation" and not "You're Dream Fencing Vacation"...

[Victor]

Pierre, just in case this should ever come up in a very important setting (job application or such), a bit of help: "YOU'RE" is the contraction of YOU and ARE. "YOUR" is a possessive modifier. Note the lack of apostrophe.

I humbly accept YOUR thanks. YOU'RE welcome.

[JackSparrow]

Pierre, just in case this should ever come up in a very important setting (job application or such), a bit of help: "YOU'RE" is the contraction of YOU and ARE. "YOUR" is a possessive modifier. Note the lack of apostrophe.

I humbly accept YOUR thanks. YOU'RE welcome.

Victor, you're being pedantic. *I apologise for the improper use of a possessive modifier, possibly.*

[miyamoto]

Usually involves going somewhere and training privately with Flessel, Gruchala, Mohammed, and Leprohon. Oh, I forgot...and with really nice beaches and weather, like Cancun.

[riptide]

I'd time-travel to Montpelier, 1835, where I'd sign up for classes at the salle of Jean-Louis Michel.

Rockin'.

[jspierre]

Pierre, just in case this should ever come up in a very important setting (job application or such), a bit of help: "YOU'RE" is the contraction of YOU and ARE. "YOUR" is a possessive modifier. Note the lack of apostrophe.

I humbly accept YOUR thanks. YOU'RE welcome.

Thanks! I do that sometimes simply out of a rushing when I write.

[fencer08]

As an epeeist, my dream week of training would be spent with Maitre Daniel Levavasseur in Paris - no better coach, no better person, no better city.

A very, very close second would be a week at Honved in Budapest training with Kristian Kulcsar (the elder !).

My choices are based on years of watching these two coaches and the way they interact with their students - although their record of having coached all 3 Olympic WE gold medal winners provides good substantive support for my instinctive choices.

[Alain]

If you had a week to train anywhere in the world for a week, where would it be and why?

Pls give at least the name of the club/training center, and ideally the coach(s) and reasons why.

Oh, and pls list your weapon.

Well, if it's a dream... there would be an enormous fencing salle with all the training facilities right next to my house... with all the best épée fencers in the world training there regularly, the best maîtres (French, Hungarian, Polish, German, Italian, all speaking perfect English/French)... and nice blonde physiotherapists Oh, and a pub, there'd have to be a pub

[Inquartata]

Victor, you're being pedantic. *I apologise for the improper use of a possessive modifier, possibly.*

Pirates never apologize! Not even equivocally.

I am SO disillusioned now.

[JackSparrow]

It was probably just the rum talking.

[Boo Boo]

Pirates never apologize! Not even equivocally.

I am SO disillusioned now.

Inquartata, don't think JackSparrow is a REAL pirate... although I could be wrong... (I have seen a guy with a glass eye at a few fencing competitions in the UK, but no-one with a wooden leg and parrot on his shoulder...)

Boo

[Inquartata]

Not even an ex-parrot?

[jspierre]

As an epeeist, my dream week of training would be spent with Maitre Daniel Levavasseur in Paris - no better coach, no better person, no better city.

A very, very close second would be a week at Honved in Budapest training with Kristian Kulcsar (the elder !).

My choices are based on years of watching these two coaches and the way they interact with their students - although their record of having coached all 3 Olympic WE gold medal winners provides good substantive support for my instinctive choices.

Does Levavasseur train Bossie or any of the other top French epee guys? And is Kristian Kulcsar a coach or the fencer on the Hungarian team?