en Garde! Publications

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The En Garde! Learn-to-Fence and Learn-to-Teach-Fencing

En Garde! Fencing is a first of it's kind and a tribute to all the people who have contributed along the way! The En Garde! program has been based on the Coaching Association of Canada's National Coaching Certification Program and the Canadian Fencing Federation's Technical Coaching Commission's implementation of the program at a time when Prof. Bob Anderson was Technical Director of the CFA and Chairman of the Fencing Academy of Canada, and "Poppa" Carl Schwende, Father of Canadian Fencing, was the President of the CFA. During that administration, the quality of fencing from all the Provinces right across Canada soared.

The En Garde! program involves 2 areas of fencing education, viz: Orientation / Class Instruction and Individual Lessons / Training for competition. The Level 0 and 1 Instructor incorporates mini-individual lessons into class instruction to teach students to kinesthetically feel the sensations associated with quality performance. The level 2 Coach then learns to teach these skills through a series of individual lessons while gaining the practical experience required for accreditation at that level. So now, from the very moment you pick up a foil to learn how to fence, the athlete can start developing the same skills that are associated with high level competition performance and the Coach starts to learn how to teach and train for competition fencing excellence.

The En Garde! Fencing manuals:

Level O-1 Orientation Animateur Instructor: En Garde! Fencing Orientation and Class Instruction

Level 2-3 Coach / Prévost: En Garde! The serious fencer's training diary

Level 0-1 En Garde! Fencing Orientation and Class Instruction ISBN 0 9585680 2 2

En Garde! fencing orientation and class instruction introduces the sport of fencing in a non-competition, skill goal oriented way by focusing on the feelings and sensations associated with the performance of the fundamental sport-specific skills. And then by modifying rules of the game we provide a natural growth and development ethos that makes learning fun, while participants actually play a variety of imaginative fencing games like : Star Wars (the forces of good verses the forces of evil), Peter Pan and Capt. Hook (bouting formats), and The Princess Bride (find the 6 fingered fencer). The manual has been designed for primary school teachers and orientation instructors. Teaching fencing and learning how to fence has never been easier, or more enjoyable!

En Garde! A manual on the sport, instruction and administration of FENCING ISBN 0 9585680 0 6

En Garde! fencing class instruction is based on whole-part-whole and project learning principles. Once the fundamental skills of distance and priority fencing are established the sport-specific skills of attack and defence are taught with an emphasis on skill improvement, all the while, preparing the athlete for competition bouting. The En Garde! fencing manual includes all the necessary forms: brochures, score-sheets, tactic and warning cards and the FENCING THEORY booklet. The En Garde! program offers quality fencing education at the most important stage of learning. The manual has been designed for secondary school teachers and learn-to-fence instructors and includes competency achievement awards of Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. This package also includes the En Garde! fencing DVD

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Level 2-3 En Garde! The serious fencers' training diary
ISBN 0 9585680 3 0. This is an essential tool for the serious-minded competition fencer. En Garde! The serious fencers' training diary is a yearly fencing program and daily training diary that incorporates the physiological, technical, psychological and tactical components of fencing training and competition bouting. Coaches will learn how to provide training that physically and mentally prepares fencers for competition bouting. "....a most excellent piece of work, it will be of great benefit to the serious minded elite athlete and is full of useful information to guide the athlete through all aspects of high performance training......I was most interested in the psychological preparation, there is some very useful information for the athlete here..." "......regards and congratulations for producing such a well thought-out diary..." Prof. Bob Anderson B.A.F., Technical Director C.F.A., Chairman F.A.C.

For further information contact Maitre Gary Worsfield - maitre_g@fencingonline.com fax +61 (07) 34100128 cell 0419773317

Last modified: 27 Feb 2008