Novice college fencer needs advice

[mbaumgarten]

I'm member of a college fencing club in Western Illinois (Knox College to be exact) and I'll be returning home for the summer soon.
I'm quite a novice and I'm looking for a place to fence somewhere in the Chicagoland area this summer, but I have no idea where to start looking.
Can anyone recommend anywhere in or near the Western Suburbs of Chicago?
Thanks!

[tchwojko]

Naperville Fencing Club http://www.napervillefencing.com/
Illinois Fencers Club http://totheescrime.org/ifc/

[MyrddinsPrecint]

Check out the results list of the place you're going and any information about coaches you're given. Compare this to the similar info about your college. Then decide who to believe when someone tells you something you know is incorrect.

At my college, the woman who teaches fencing as a class *sees* modern fencing once a year, at our big regional tournament. The program you come from could be away from the flow of information, or it might not. But when students from small college or high school programs meet larger competitive clubs (or even smallish clubs that occasionally know what they're talking about), they often pretend they have all the answers, and this coach is entirely wrong.

Sometimes they're right.

Not usually, but sometimes.

Be right.

[kuroutesshin]

If I'm not mistaken, Maitre Laurence Schiller, Northwestern's coach, has fencing clinics throughout the summer in Evanston, if you're up for the drive.

He's a great guy- a little quirky, but very funny. I was fencing in their fall invitational last year, making a jew joke with my foilist teammate (It's a common thing, he's Jewish and thinks it's funny) and Schiller stopped, raised an eyebrow, and proceeded to tell me a Polack joke. (I'm Polish, and found it very funny.)

Very good guy, and a great coach from what I've seen and heard.

[tchwojko]

Northwestern Camp info

(Go U NU!)

[ACrimsonRapier]

It's in the city, but you should still come to RedStar. 8)