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Winter 2016
ENCER'SEDGE
U.S. Fencing is growing but how do clubs
And why women struggle to gain ground
a Warrior
Train
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GOAL ISN'T
THE
THE
MAKING
THE
OLYMPICS;
IS DOING
GOAL
AT
SOMETHING
OLYMPICS
THE
the Bonn World Cup of Germany, held this past February, Massialas
In
with his Team USA teammate, Gerek Meinhardt, mathematically
along
for the individuals’ event in Rio Olympics. In his second
qualified
at the Summer Games, Massialas will be fencing in both
appearance
men’s individual event and the men’s foil team event: medalled
the
in men's individuals and bronzed in team this summer.
silver
Winter 2016 issue | Fencer's Edge Magazine | Quote of the Season
ALEX MASSIALAS:
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Letter from
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Editor the
Who rules the
05
girls?
world,
touts
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teamwork
Programming for
10
pioneers
fencing
Long Island’s high
11
fencing boom
school
Sabre fencing is on
14
upswing, knocks
the
others in recent
out
stats
rocking
After
the Little
bobsledding,
embarks on
Island
fencing
calendar
Fencer’s
Olympian
funds
as they count
hopefuls
to Rio down
on the Wall: The
Fly
Division
Cafe
table
of
contents
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07
09 Role models
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05 13
How To: Rewire
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Cover: Fencing Friends. Photo by Sergey Kobzar, of Golden Fencing Academy in San Marcos, California.
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USA's Monica Aksamit, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Dagmara Wozniak
Team
Mariel Zagunis on the podium in Rio. Photo Credit: u.s. fENCING
and
WHO
RULES THE
WORLD,GIRLS?
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single mother has always been an
My
strong role model to me. Without
incredibly
taught me many significant lesson,
She’s
of the most integral being that I should
one
tough love, I can’t say that I would be the
her
that I am today.
person
give up. This lesson is what helped me
never
for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de
qualify
Janeiro, Brazil.
always tells me how it is, there’s no
She
anything.
sugar-coating
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MONIKA AKSAMIT
-
U.S. Women's Team Sabre
Bronze,
whenever I had time
However,
think, I always remembered
to
that I wasn’t raised by a quitter.
mom didn’t give up as a
My
mother, nor did she give
single
when she was diagnosed
up
Stage 2 breast cancer.
with
she could battle that, I could at
If
finish out the season with
least
everything that I had in me.
And I did exactly that.
told myself in January that I
I
three tournaments left in the
had
season, potentially
qualifying
my last three ever.
even
wanted to step off the strip in
I
South Korea with no
Seoul,
I fenced those last three
regrets.
with the intentions
tournaments
taking every possible risk on
of
strip. the
I decided on an action, I
If
it regardless of
executed
or not it was correct. I
whether
every single thing with
did
absolute confidence.
a result, I had the best results
As
I had seen in two years.
that
past two fencing seasons
This
the worst that I’ve had in my
were
still no results.
career. No matter what I
fencing
doing, I couldn’t put all of the
was
be completely honest, I
To
about quitting more
thought
together on the strip. I
pieces
train more, work with a
would
that I could count on
times
hand. I vowed time and
one
2016 Olympics
psychologist, spend
sports
hours at the gym, and
countless
again that this was my
time
tournament.
last