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Individual Lessons Program with CoachGerryD

Sport Fencing Lesson with CoachGerryD.  "up close'n personal" LINK TO: TFA Location Map * A lesson by Appointment with CoachGerryD is additional practice, to your monthly training as a member of the Academy. * Schedule your Fencing Lessons (Epee, Foil or Sabre), with CoachGerryD: *  >Monday through Friday evenings from 6:00 pm. to 8:30 pm. &/or >Saturday, Sunday afternoon from 12:30 pm. to 2:30 pm. * Lessons are $20 (paid to Head CoachBoyko); the lessons with CoachGerryD are 40 minutes each. Your training with CoachGerryD will take you to: a competitive level of sport fencing at the ACADEMY, so you can take full advantage and enjoy your Tampa Fencing Academy monthly membership. CoachGerryD's skill training methods will prepare you to further your fencing training with Head Coach Boyko Krastevitch. * CoachGerryD and the Academy will provide fencing equipment.  For more information about CoachGerryD's Fencing Lessons Program contact: CoachD@TampaBay.rr.com or 813.767.1722. About Coach Gerardo (GerryD) Duran Jr.  "Working with people that strive for personal excellence in the practice of Recreational Olympic Sport Fencing".   Coaching recreational sport fencing has been part of Coach Gerardo's life since 1987. In that year he attended a  fencing coach's Foil and Sabre seminar in Orlando FL. From that day on, he knew that “he was a Fencing Coach". All that was needed now : the skills of "the Fencing Coach".To start his new career, he attended in 1991 and 1992 the United States Fencing Association's (USFA) Coaches College at the Olympic Training Center (OTC), Colorado Springs, founded “Tampa's Fencing Academy” Tampa Florida, and became a lifetime member of the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association. Ten years later at age 62 it was time to retire from his day job to dedicate 25 hours a week in teaching and coaching sport fencing at the Academy and local private schooled. CoachGerryD revisited the Coaches College in 2005 for 3 weeks of coaches training (EPEE, FOIL,SABRE) and was privileged to attended a seven day seminar “Sport Fencing- The Unity of Theory and Practice”, with renowned Polish Fencing Master and Coach Professor Zhigniew Czajkowski.           "There is always something more to learn in this sport: better techniques, tactics, pedagogy. Now that the USA has earned there first gold fencing metals at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics, more people are attracted to fencing as a recreational sport.Everyone can succeed in the sport of fencing. All that's needed is love for the game". by WMD....  On October 2007 CoachGerryD transferred his job of Head Coach and Director of Tampa's Fencing Academy to Coach Boyco Krastavich, a Bulgarian educated fencing coach and Sports Educator with international competitive experience.  CoachGerryD continues teaching at the Academy, spends more time developing Sport Fencing Programs in Epee, Foil and Sabre for private schools and Internet Video sport fencing tutorials for this web sites.

What do you learn with CoachGerryD's lessons? >Introductions to the Olympic Sport Fencing,  >explanation of the various weapons Foil, Epee and Sabre, >risk management and safety equipment for the sport of fencing, >Technical and Tactical fencing terminology and definitions,  >competitive equipment, >Overview, of organized fencing as a sport,  >Overview, of the use of internet for weekend home assignments.  >Introduction to Motor Skill Training and the "Form Practice Drill",  >Foot Work skill training, > Blade Work skill training,  >critical and cognitive thinking in skills training, >dynamic balance and "Exchange Drills", >rules of  "Right-of-way or Priority"  in skill training and mini games, >offensive, defensive and counter-offensive actions, >scoring and refereeing the fencing bout, >the use of video for the analyses of fencing movements and timing. SABRE FOIL EPEE