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A
weekend with Tristan Parris
8th
& 9th Dec 2007 - Comber Leisure Centre |
 Some
call him Mr Parris, others simply Tristan
– but at Stormont we simply say ‘The
MASTER’!
The first weekend in December saw over
20 fencers attending an intensive training session
under the watchful eye of Tristan Parris. What
a few days it was. Some people managed both
days and other attended on just one of them.
Whichever it was everyone agreed, although very
hard work, the training was excellent.
Each day commenced, as you would expect, with
a warm up and plenty of footwork. The fun but
effective ways that footwork was introduced
and practiced was an eye opener to many, everything
ad that element of fun but at the same time
it was presented in a very structured and well
planned way, each exercise building on the last
and preparing for the next. Different levels
of fencers were all included and pushed to their
own levels and abilities both within the group
work and on a 1-2-1 basis with blade work later
in the day.
 Some
blade work was then done with individual lessons
and plenty of interesting variations introduced
to the fencing to make us all practice what
we had learnt. Fun scoring methods, hits only
counting if certain moves or target area was
used, back to zero on off targets, and many
many other different and interesting scenarios.
Each and everyone was carefully explained and
targeted to develop on what we had already learnt.
After lunch and a short warm up the afternoon
included a reduced footwork session and more
fencing wit Tristan giving more 1-2-1 lessons
and also finding time to work with everyone
on the boxes to ensure his messages were driven
home.
We would like to thank Tristan for coming up
to Comber, the members of other fencing clubs
who attended and look forward to welcoming him
again sometime in 2008.
Stormont Fencing Club are planning more training
weekends for 2008 with both our local NI coach,
Tristan and possible others if time and interest
allows. Watch our web site for more details,
information, dates and booking will all be available
on-line as and when available.
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