The Paris 2024 Olympics brought fencing to the world’s center stage. During those few days that fencing was taking place, spectators around the world were captivated by the grace and fluidity that the world’s elite fencers were moving with.
There’s no question that these Olympic fencers were excellent athletes who have developed and honed their technique through years of tedious training to get to this point in their careers. And because the most important part of the fencing technique is footwork, these practitioners have surely undergone countless fencing footwork drills to maximize how far their natural reflexes and fencing intuition can take them.
It will be a long road for any young fencer to make it to the Olympics. But a great place for them to start would be by perfecting their footwork. And luckily, there are world-renowned coaches like Gennady Tyshler that are willing to share their footwork secrets.
Coach Tyshler is the president of the International Fencing Federation (FIE), or Fédération Internationale d'Escrime in French, which is the global governing body for Olympic fencing. As a fencer, Tyshler won multiple awards during the World Championships and Olympic Games. As a fencing coach, Tyshler’s pupils have won 18 Olympic Games medals (11 gold) and over 50 medals in World Championships.
As the Head and Professor of the Fencing Department at the Russian University of Physical Culture, David Tyshler has prepared over 400 coaches, who are currently working in various countries and are proud to call themselves his students.
Coach Tylsher is a leading authority on the nuances of fencing footwork. And his ‘FENCING FOOTWORK’ course presents the perfect opportunity for fencing coaches of all levels to glean his insights and impart them to their fencing students; perhaps kickstarting these students’ own Olympic journeys in the process.
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