At Forge Fencing, success isn’t only measured only by touches scored, medals won, or tournaments attended. Forge is also a place for developing confidence, initiative, collective responsibility, and leadership.

As our summer ends and a new season starts, we’re proud to celebrate three graduated Forge teen leaders – Josh Sun, Tyson Deck, and Matthew Chaves – whose impact we are seeing far beyond our facility on N. Duke Street in downtown Durham, NC.
We want to focus on more than what happens beyond an individual lesson instead of what happens over thousands of lessons.

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We have been thinking a lot about long-term athlete development in fencing. Everyone talks about private lessons, coaching styles, and finding the “best” coach, but very little gets into why certain coaching relationships seem to produce elite athletes over decades. This is designed as a parent and athlete support article.

We want to focus on more than what happens beyond an individual lesson instead of what happens over thousands of lessons.

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