MDFC Learn to Teach Fencing Clinic

COST $10 for members of Maryland Fencing Club $40 for non-members $0 for MDFC staff CLINIC INSTRUCTORS Coach Greg Paye (Prevot d'Epee, Moniteur Foil & Saber) is the head coach and owner of Maryland Fencing Club. He has over 30 years fencing experience, and has been professionally teaching/coaching since 1989. He has studied with Fencing Masters Zbigniew Czajkowski (Poland), Janusz Smolenski (DCFC), Bill Shipman (Boston FC), and Dick Oles (Tri-Weapon Club). Coach James Murray (Fencing Master des Armes) is a coach at the Maryland Fencing Club, and a consultant to the University of North Carolina. He has over 35 years of coaching experience. He was the head coach of Haverford College for 20 years, and he has coached at Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, Salle Santelli, Salle Csiszar, and the Virginia Academy of Fencing. He has trained at the American Fencing Academy, L'Institute National de Sport Paris, and the US Olympic Training Center. LECTURE TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE • USFCA process of becoming an Asst Moniteur • Safety & Liability • Methods of Group Instruction • Methods of Individual Instruction • Terminology for beginner's classes • Group lesson format and organization • Types and roles of professional coaches • Coaching ethics • Basic flow of teaching a technique, putting the technique into a tactic, and implementing the technique with tactics into bouting • Care of equipment and salle PRACTICE TOPICS WILL INCLUDE • Leading warm-up and footwork drills • Implementing a lesson plan • Making corrections to observed basic errors in technique • Identifying, stopping, and correcting unsafe conduct • Teaching beginner level techniques as technical drills • Managing beginner-level bouts in a class REQUIREMENTS • Participants must be Competitive or Professional members of USA Fencing (USFA) • Participants must have full uniform and equipment in good repair GETTING USFCA CERTIFIED After the clinic, participants should have all of the information they need to get certified on their own with the USFCA. This clinic will not certify any Assistant Moniteurs, rather it will provide participants with the information they need to earn the certification on their own.