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Philosophy

Mission Statement

Rockwall Fencing Academy is an organization designed to train athletes in the sport of fencing. Fencing allows us to train the whole athlete, developing not only strength, but flexibility, balance, reflexes, mental awareness and sportsmanship.

Thoughts & Approaches
At RFA, we believe in the benefits that fencing and its long history offer our students, and ourselves. Fencing is a unique sport in that it not only develops the physical body of a sport, but also the mental awareness of chess. Fencing has frequently been referred to as physical chess.

The physical demands of fencing require flexibility, balance, and quick reflexes. While there is a place in fencing for the strong athlete, the smaller, quick and agile fencer can still take down the biggest opponent.

Fencing requires and stimulates mental awareness in ways that other sports do not. A fencer must watch and learn from his opponent, weighing actions and reactions, developing strategies and then must enact that strategy and then weight its effectiveness. A fencer must strike the right continuing balance between defensive and offensive actions.

Actions happen so fast that games must be scored electrically. It’s not unusual for a bout to go from attack to parry to counter attack to parry to counter attack to parry to attack in a split second–all before the casual viewer knows what’s happened.

The benefits of fencing also spill over into other parts of fencers’ lives. Apart from the health benefits, the thought processes built while fencing can be put to use casually, in school or even at work. We learn our limits and how to stretch them, how to size up the competition, form a plan and implement it and then how to critique the plan’s effectiveness and take that into consideration with the next plan.

RFA fencers walk proudly not only because of fencing’s long history, but for all of these things, historical, mental and physical.

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