Columbus TV station 10TV hosted a Health and Fitness Expo at the Convention Center. We set up at the Arnold Sports Festival booth and let kids ( even the big ones ) try fencing. Eventually, Brutus, the buckeye, showed up and Arnold Fencing Classic Chair Julia Richey challenged him to a duel and soundly defeated him. That’s payback back for [...]

Wheelchair fencing is pretty amazing. If you’ve never tried it you should. Every year at the Arnold we continue to try to get wheelchair fencing involved. It’s a difficult process, but it looks positive to finally come to fruition for 2012. In the meantime the Arnold staff attended a coaches conference where the wheelchair program was on the agenda. Our [...]

One of the great things about the Arnold Fencing Classic is that it puts us in contact with a lot of great people. Mariel Zagunis will be returning for 2011, making her third year straight, and we ran into her at a coaching clinic not long ago. Julia took the opportunity to interview Mariel.