The beginner course you should repeat 4x throughout the week with a rest day in between e.g. Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.  ​If you want to check your technique please ask a family member to watch, or video yourself and review it afterwards. If you want a coach to analyse it then please drop us a message about our coaches eye programme as we can then watch, review and annotate your videos so that you have a better idea on how to improve.

The three footwork videos I am uploading are filmed by another coach, however if you have any questions about certain exercises please do not hesitate to ask us.  I have watched the videos and for doing exercises at home during the lock down then these are perfectly good videos to follow! If there are any minor/major technical floors in the video we will add a comment in 'Notes' which is displayed under the video. The footwork exercises can be found in the fitness programmes section of the website!

​Above are two great exercises for flexibility, core stability, balance and co-ordination.  Both of these videos contain exercises which you could incorporate into your warm up routines for training, gym sessions and competitions.  If you have had a go at the club exercises, please post a comment saying that you have completed them and give yourself a rating out of 10 for each exercise. For example, Completed. Prone Series 8/10, Hip Series 1 8/10.  It would be good to see who is having a go and also to collect some data on what our club members find easy/hard.  The feedback will also help me structure the posts to our club members needs.

I look forward to seeing your comments on the exercises over the next couple of days!

Above are two great exercises for flexibility, core stability, balance and co-ordination.  Both of these videos contain exercises which you could incorporate into your warm up routines for training, gym sessions and competitions.  If you have had a go at the club exercises, please post a comment saying that you have completed them and give yourself a rating out of 10 for each exercise. For example, Completed. Lateral Sequence 8/10, MD Lunges 8/10.  It would be good to see who is having a go and also to collect some data on what our club members find easy/hard.  The feedback will also help me structure the posts to our club members needs.

I look forward to seeing your comments on the exercises over the next couple of days!

Hi All,

I hope you are all safe and well. You would have just received an email from the HFC Committee and DWFC Committee regarding the closure of the Fencing Club on a Monday evening and Tuesday evening for the foreseeable future. Obviously training will resume at some point however, we can't sit at home and do nothing so I will be posting fencing exercises, plans and routines for all our club members. This isn't compulsory and I won't be chasing members up like teachers chasing school homework, or will I? However, if you are competing and taking your fencing seriously then it would be a good time to get some pre-season training in and work on many of those habits that both Sophie, James and I have been nagging you about for the last six months!

This is my first time doing a blog, so please don't judge my literacy skills! Please make sure that comments are sensible (kids), we don't mind people having fun but this section of the website is for you to take away information and use it to improve your fencing. I will post on the Blog and in the HFC Facebook groups everytime new information and exercises have been posted! Draig Wern Members please join the HFC Facebook Group below as it will save multiple posts.

​For those of you who are on the Coaches Eye package this is the perfect time to do some video analysis work on your footwork/ fitness and upload it for the coaches to see and give feedback on. I will also be posting videos into Coaches Eye for you to watch and give feedback on as well. If you aren't on Coaches Eye and would like to be then you can sign up via this link or contact me directly for more information.

Please make sure you listen to the rules and advice regarding self isolation and take them seriously, stay safe and keep fencing! (Remember there is no such thing as perfection, there is always room for improvement)