New dates for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – 23 July to 8 August 2021. New dates for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics – 24 August to 5 September 2021. USA Fencing has extended its insurance blackout for clubs through 20 April 2020. Based on this date Salle Green will remain closed…
While we are closed, we will be running distance training for our members on the following weekly schedule: Monday – Catechism question of the week e-mailed to all members. Wednesday – home training assignment with a specific skill to work on and detailed instructions on how to execute the skill…
Following the advice of our professional association, the United States Fencing Coaches Association, and the directions of our sport’s national governing body, USA Fencing, Salle Green is closed until at least April 6. We expect that, given the current progression of the coronavirus, that date may be extended. If you…
Maitre d’Armes Walter Green has been awarded the United States Fencing Coaches Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Maitre Green started fencing in 1966, competing actively through the 1970s in the United States and Great Britain. He has served as a national level referee, an administrator as Mid-Atlantic Chair of the Amateur…
We are proud to announce that Prevot d’Epee Mark Logan has passed the practical examinations of the United States Fencing Coaches Association at the Association’s coaches college in Rome, Georgia, and is now Prevot de Fleurette as well. As such he is well qualified to teach and train foil and…
We are very proud to announce that Salle member Dede Deane has been selected for the United States team for the 2019 Pan American Veterans Championship to fence in Veterans Womens Sabre. The Championship will be held at the Sports Center CEFED in Cochabamba, Bolivia from the 26th to the…
Every quarter USA Fencing recognizes one individual in each of the 6 USA Fencing regions “for their commitment, dedication, respect, teamwork, inclusion, passion, sportsmanship and character.” We are proud to announce that Maitre d’Armes Walter Green has been selected as the Region Six Fencing Spirit of Sport award recipient for…
Maitre Green has been awarded the Diploma of the International Fencing Coaches Association (IFCA). For those not familiar with English practices for recognition of fencing masters, award of the Diploma identifies the individual as a full three weapon fencing master, the highest qualification for those who teach and train fencers…
In the run-up to the December North American Cup, Dede Deane fenced Veterans Women’s Sabre Combined at the Delaware Valley Fencing Club’s Veterans Sabre Tournament in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. It was a good warm-up tournament and a check for what to work on before December … and a medal against the…
Through the generous work of the Nathaniel Ewell Fencing Development Program, we now have a small lending library. In the library box you will find a growing selection of books related to fencing, including novels, biographies, fencing manuals, applicable books from other combat sports, and general fitness books. The books…