And I have most certainly had to adapt my fencing to these hurdles. I have been injured by everyday life, though.
The fencing I learned is the same fencing I teach my students, and in 43 years of transforming everyday people into fencers, I have never had a student injured beyond the aforementioned bruises, welts, and scrapes. But it was fencing, not the running, poking school of bipedal joisting. Falcon Studios was peppered with former champions. My background is a traditional fencing game. Basically, I was taught to control my actions. When I was learning to fence, I was taught balance, timing, and distance. Nothing beyond the normal bruises, welts and scrapes. I’ve been fencing for 47 years, and I have never had a serious injury. People don’t often talk about injuries in fencing, but have you sustained many injuries and if so, how have you dealt with them? I had to work hard for everything I’ve accomplished. I should add, though, that it was not an easy union. Actually, I sometimes think fencing chose me rather than the other way around. In the end, many things conspired to lead me to fencing.
I didn’t have any idea how this would come about-I didn’t know any fencers, or where there were any fencing schools–but somewhere in the back of my brain, I had a feeling I would one day fence. I thought it was the most amazing thing in the world, and I wanted to learn how to do it.
Fencing seemed so exotic and otherworldly. Any and everything with swords got my attention. When I was around 14 years old, The Three Musketeers was my favorite story. When I was growing up in the 1950s, fencing always seemed to be in front of me. How did you initially get drawn into fencing? For his more recent writings and for more information on the man and his thoughts, visit his fencing school’s blog. I came across him when I first took up fencing and although I’ve never had the opportunity to be taught by him, his teachings, description of fencing history and theory, and vision of what fencing is and should be have stayed with me through his books The Art and Science of Fencing, The Inner Game of Fencing, The Encyclopedia of the Sword and others. Everyone in the fencing world should know who this guy is.
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