Hello All,

I just wanted to take a moment to publicly thank and recognize Maestro Sean
Hayes for putting on an amazing workshop for us here in Walla Walla,
Washington last weekend. We did two days (10-5, 9-4) of work with the Italian
Foil.
Most of the fencers attending had about 1 year of Italian foil training, so
he ran an intermediate level workshop. The primary focus was on the use of
tempo in the foil, and because of this we spent much of the weekend working
through examples of both second intention and countertime. Everyone in
attendance had an excellent time, worked really hard, and learned a ton. My
club
had an open bouting session last night and it was the cleanest fencing I have
ever seen them do; I could already see them applying what they had learned.

So, my hat is off to Maestro Sean Hayes, an amazing fencer and an even more
amazing teacher. For any of you who have the opportunity to work with him in
the future, I most highly recommend it, and those of us here at Whitman
Fencing are now working on figuring out how to bring him back again in the Fall.
:-)

Cheers,
-Andrew Telesca-


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