Founded in 1991, the Virginia Academy of Fencing (VAF) is the largest fencing school by student enrollment, with over 1000 students. As a Washington, D.C. metropolitan area institution for the past 30 years, VAF has introduced fencing to thousands of adults and children in its state-of-the-art 13,000 square foot fencing facility, conveniently located right off of the Capital Beltway.
With some of the best coaching staff in the world in their respective areas of expertise, its coaches combine the teaching of technical proficiency with individual mentoring and the development of positive personal skills which will last a lifetime.
Men and women, girls and boys, from ages 4 to 80 fence here! They are recreational Olympic sport fencers, Historical Swordsmanship practitioners, state, national, and international champions, and World Championship competitors. At VAF, students develop both the intellectual as well as the athletic aspects of these unique disciplines.
Its training programs are designed by both a Russian Fencing Master, US National Team Coach, and Professor of Fencing at American and George Mason Universities, and by a leading authority on Western martial arts and published author of Historical Swordsmanship articles and books.
According to vafinc.com. Source of photos: internet
