EPE 502: Everything Epee: Clinic #6

An In-depth View of How to Coach Epee from Youth to Elite Fencers

This series of seven clinics, with 21 total epee sessions, developed from Maître Handelman’s years of coaching epee and teaching three weapon coach clinics for the USFCA and internationally.

The goal is for the epee coach to learn how to deliver improved higher level epee lessons. Coaches who take all the sessions will learn a progression of material for a comprehensive epee background, and the practical ability to translate the techniques to any level lesson.

The clinics will progress from how to coach and cue correctly, to detailed information on all epee techniques, and finish with Teaching lessons and advanced high level Option lessons. Each session has an additional Session Training Companion (STC) review, which summarizes all the drills and actions taught in the full session.

If possible, while watching the Session Training Companion videos it is suggested you work with a student, or another coach, to actively practice all the drills that are presented. After a drill is shown by the leads, the coaches should take time to repeat it as much as needed.

Clinic #6: Instruction for defense, counter-attacks, and blade takes

Teaching lessons are demonstrated on how to give instruction for defense, counter-attacks, and blade takes. The coach will practice a specific outline covering the steps to teach an action (define it, demonstrate it, instruct how to do it, and perfect it in a tactical situation). In the last session, the option lesson will be explained and practiced in steps so the coach can start to use this higher level activity with their students.

Each session earns continuing education credits and has a final formative assessment quiz. All quizzes contain 20 questions with a required passing grade of 75%. When the answer is incorrect, the correct answers will be displayed. Note the correct answers before retaking the exam. It is recommended to review parts of the session or parts of the session training companion before retaking the quiz and moving on.

The coach can proceed to the next session after passing the quiz with 75% or higher.

Course Content

EPE 502: Learning Objectives Course Information

Session 16

EPE 502: Session 16 – 1st Period

EPE 502: Session 16 – 2nd Period

EPE 502: Session 16 – 3rd Period

EPE 502: Session 16 Training Companion 1 Quiz

Lesson Content

EPE 502: Session 16 Test Everything Epee

Session 17

EPE 502: Session 17 – 1st & 2nd Period

EPE 502: Session 17 – 3rd Period

EPE 502: Session 17 Training Companion 1 Quiz

Lesson Content

EPE 502: Session 17 Test Everything Epee

Session 18

EPE 502: Session 18 – 1st Period

EPE 502: Session 18 – 2nd Period

EPE 502: Session 18 – 3rd Period

EPE 502: Session 18 Training Companion 1 Quiz

Lesson Content

EPE 502: Session 18 Test Everything Epee

Reflections by Maitre Rob Handelman

EPE 502: Reflections for Clinic 6

About Instructor

Robert

After fencing on the Binghamton University varsity sabre team, coached by Paul Pesthy, Rob was accepted in 1972 to the Fencing Master school at the Institut National des Sports (INS) in Paris France. He spent nearly three years earning his Fencing Master credential in all three weapons (sabre, foil, and épée). He is one of only three Americans to ever graduate from the INS. Over his coaching career, his students have been national finalists, national team members, and national champions in all three weapons. Maître Handelman was the head coach for the varsity team at UC Berkeley, taught coaches' clinics for the US Fencing Association at the Olympic training center at Squaw Valley, and training camps for our top junior fencers. He has coached US teams and his students at the Olympic Sports Festivals, World Cup Events, and Junior World Championships. As a coach developer he has organized and taught all three weapons at international clinics in Canada, China, Hungary, and national clinics throughout the U.S. for the USFCA. He developed with Connie Louie the successful SF Youth Fencing sabre program at Halberstadt Fencers’ Club in San Francisco. Rob also had a private practice as a Doctor of Chiropractic specializing in sports injuries from 1983 until he retired from chiropractic in 2010. He served on the USA Fencing Medical Commission for 4 years. He is a co-author of two fencing texts that are both used to train coaches in the US, Canada, England, and Australia, and fencers all over the world - Fencing Sabre: A Practical Training Guide for Coaches, Parents and Young Athletes (2010 & 2015 2nd ed.) and Fencing Foil: A Practical Training Guide for Coaches, Parents and Young Athletes (2015 2nd ed.). For six years Maître Handelman was the chair of the USFCA’s certification and accreditation board. Currently, he is serving as the President of the USFCA and has made the goal to create, develop, and implement a National Coaching Developmental Program (NCDP) for the USA.

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