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Olympian Alex Massialas and Tokyo qualifier Nick Itkin were on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night teaching Jimmy and Guillermo how to begin their prep for 2024 ... Watch the segment: https://youtu.be/H9QzOpHAFW4?t=318

Touche Commander. Touche!

Challenge. Super mooie SCA Scherm binnen gekregen van de kids! #TeamSCA # #Winter #Snow

Four years after learning to fence, 17 year old foilist Ruth White made history, becoming the first Black fencer to win a Senior National Championship in 1969. ... By 1971, she was a student athlete at NYU and the first U.S. fencer ever to win a Junior World medal, earning bronze, a feat she followed with individual silver at the Pan Am Games that same year. In 1972, she became the first Black female fencer to compete for the Olympic Games. Although she retired from fencing after the Games in order to pursue medical school and a successful career as an internist, Ruth White remains one of the sport’s pioneers and an inspiration to past and future fencers alike. Read more about Ruth White and the groundbreaking impact she has had on the sport: https://www.usafencing.org//762992-olympian-ruth-white-fou #MotovationMonday #BlackHistoryMonth

As it is day 1 of African American History Month, here is an article we wrote years ago on the greatest fencers and martial artists of African descent. https://outofthiscentury.wordpress.com//the-greatest-afri/

Today marks the start of #BlackHistoryMonth. Throughout the month of February we will be highlighting Black fencers who achieved great success, on and off the strip.

Fencing made me determined. It taught me to fight in the toughest times, fight for my place in the sport, even fight my siblings for the last slide of pizza . ... Sport helped me fight for all my dreams and I want girls to know that through sport, they can fight for their dreams too. NikeWomen #BetterSportBetterFuture See more

Who are these people? Portraits in photos from a distant era, very few of us will recognize them. Two things all these men have in common: Fencing and death! Th...ese athletes, who lived more than 76 years ago, are fencers killed by the Nazi madness in the greatest mass extermination in human history: the Holocaust. Today is the "Day of Remembrance". January 27 each year is dedicated to commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. It is impossible to establish the precise number of victims which varies between 12.25 - 17.37 million people. Infants, children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. From all walks of life. Of all trades. Of all sports. Without distinction, killed only to be considered "different"! As sportsmen we want to remember who shared our same passion: Fencing. Officially about 221 sportsmen were killed in the concentration camps, some of whom had won gold at the Olympics or were world champions, as reported on personal files, but it is estimated that the Holocaust has claimed 60,000 victims who practiced sports officially. These are the fencers: OTTO HERSCHMANN, Austrian fencer who died on June 14, 1942 in the Izbica concentration camp. In 1896 he won bronze in the 100 freestyle and in 1912 a silver as a member of the Austrian national saber team; OSKAR GERDE, Hungarian fencer, who died in Mauthausen on 8 October 1944, had won two medals in 1908 in London, in 1912 in Stockholm; JANOS GARAY, Hungarian fencer, who died in Mauthausen on 5 March 1945, won in Amsterdam in 1928 and then lost his life in a Hungarian camp; ENDRE KABOS, Hungarian fencer, who won a gold in Los Angeles in 1932 and two others in 1936 in Berlin, we have two different versions of his death: one says that he died during forced labor, the other instead that he died in 1944 in Hungary; ATTILA PETSCHAUER, Hungarian fencer, who won a gold medal in 1928 in Amsterdam and one in 1932 in Los Angeles, was called the "new D’Artagnan". While imprisoned in the Davidovka Forced Labor Camp in Ukraine on January 30, 1943, he was spotted by guards who had been informed of Petschauer's fame. A witness saw the guards telling Attila to take off his clothes, climb a tree and crow like a rooster. "" As he sang, they sprayed him with cold water that froze and eventually fell from the tree; ROMAN KANTOR, Polish fencer; participates in the University Championships in Paris and is ranked third; in 1929 at the French Open Championships he was sixth in the general classification. In 1936 with the national team of his country, he participates in the Berlin Olympics. Arrested in Warsaw in 1942, he was deported to Majdanek camp, where he was forced to work for Ostindustrie (his name appears in the records). He will die in 1943; CESARE POMPILIO, an Italian fencer, actively attends the Genoese Fencing Society killed by the Nazis in 1944 together with 76 comrades interned in the Fossoli concentration camp. One question .................. .. WHY?

Kurt Vonnegut: When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he... asked those kinds of getting to know you questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes. And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them. And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them. And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could Win at them. See more

Broken blade? not a problem. Now time for 2nd breakfast.

Ella Hattan, better known by her nom-de-guerre Jaguarina, was Colonel Thomas Monstery’s most accomplished student. Born in 1859 in Ohio, she would go on to be...come widely regarded as one of the greatest swordswomen of the nineteenth century, and perhaps of all time. Hattan would defeat more than sixty men in high-profile combats on both horseback and on foot; according to one major newspaper, more than half of these men were fencing masters. For more details of Hattan’s extraordinary career, her training, and her lengthy master-student relationship with Monstery, see the following article: http://martialartsnewyork.org//colonel-thomas-monstery-an/

-Calm Down Pepe, I know this is your first lesson. Everything will be all right. Relax... - My name is not Pepe. - I am Pepe

Downtime is invaluable!

Lets not pretend that the first time we got plugged onto a spool we all acted like dogs on a retractable lead Image source: Pinterest

Épée simplified #usafencing #fencing #stayinworkout

Just discovered! A rare photo from Nationals 1792, Men’s Smallswords, Gold Medal bout!