Andrew-

It was a real pleasure to be able to work with such a dedicated,
well-trained group, and I had a great time. I am particularly happy to see
a group so completely dedicated to classical Italian fencing and doing a
superb job at it: all the fencers had an excellent technical and theoretical
grasp of the material, and were strong fencers as well. And as their
instructor, you are to be praised for the fine job you have done leading
their training!

I hope I have the opportunity to work with Whitman again, and for those in
Washington looking for a place to learn, Walla-Walla is the place to go.

Best Regards,

Sean Hayes
Maestro dčarmi
Northwest Academy of Arms
http://www.northwestacademyofarms.com/

on 4/5/05 4:18 PM, voidmaster@... at voidmaster@... wrote:

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> 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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