Hi Andrew,

Glad the seminar went well! Sean and I have never met (although we've
traded e-mails often enough), but I certainly like what I have seen in
Sean's students.

Seminars like this are extremely valuable -- especially for clubs
without a maestro of their own (such as yours, and to a certain extent,
ours as well).

Hopefully, some of the Walla Walla folks will want to put their freshly
honed skills to work at our final tournament of the year (April 30-May
1) at Willamette University here in Salem. Entry forms will be available
online next week at http://salem.classicalfencing.us/tournaments/

-Michael Heggen
Salem Classical Fencing



>Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:18:09 EDT
> From: voidmaster@...
>Subject: Hayes Workshop
>
>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-
>
>
>