GOOGLE CALENDAR

PROGRAMS

LIGHTSPEED FENCING — Lead Coach Cang Snow

Our flagship event, occupying most of our curriculum.

  • Learn and practice skills for casual and competitive Lightspeed fencing

  • Includes warmup, sparring, bouting, lessons, and drills

  • Train to compete with other fencers locally and around the world!

  • Beginners welcome!

KNIFE FIGHTING & CLOSE COMBAT — Coach Mark Maslar

A mix of sport and traditional martial arts.

  • Learn and practice real world skills for self defense.

  • Includes grappling and takedowns as well as knifeplay.

  • Train to compete against other knife fencers and win!

  • Beginners welcome!

HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING (HIIT) — Coach Dinah Kolasa

  • 10-20 minutes of cardio, strength, and conditioning

  • Get a good workout in a short period of time

  • Appropriate to all levels

OLYMPIC LIFTING — Coach Cang Snow

  • Learn the clean & jerk, the snatch, and their component lifts.

  • Progress at your own pace on your own personal strength goals.

  • Total beginners welcome!

THEMES

Lightspeed sessions have themes that rotate on a weekly and monthly schedule.

WORKOUT VARIATIONS

  • Super Workout: A slightly harder workout than normal.

  • Team Workout: You do your workout with one or more partners.

  • Chipper Workout: A harder workout that emphasizes strength gain.

  • Sabercise: Trainees mix sparring and cardio together in this really fun variation.

TRAINING VARIATIONS

  • Goals: We work on strength, agility, and stamina goals and record our performance and personal bests on the PB sheets.

  • Footwork: We focus on footwork for the session, improving technique, stamina, and speed.

  • Alternate Rules: We modify the rules to better emphasize different skills and strategies, especially ones we’ve been learning about in recent sessions.

  • Advanced Weapons: We break out the advanced weapon systems including the crossguarded Ren Saber and the dual-wielded Tano Sabers.

ACTIVITY VARIATIONS

  • Games Night: We spend most of the evening playing fencing-based and related games including saber dodgeball!

  • Alternate Leagues: We borrow rules from other systems from around the world and give them a spin.

  • Alternate Weapons: We mix our usual plastic up with steel and foam, playing with epees & oly sabers, padded swords, and electronic knives.

COMMITTED FENCING SESSIONS

On these nights there is less focus on learning and more on just fencing!

  • Team Fight Night: We organize into teams and have one huge bout for the night.

  • Low Light Bout Night: We turn the lights all the way down, crank the music way up, and just fence for the evening. Very chill evening.

  • Bout Night: We focus on referee’d matches, not only practicing our fencing skills but also our officiating skills.

  • Practice Tournament: A casual competitive event mimicking a real tournament, with opportunities to practice fencing as well as reffing.