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Dear Fencing Friends and Families! I hope you make the best of this Halloween and have a fun weekend. We are open today and tomorrow for...
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CFA Admin
- Oct 19, 2020
- 1 min
Adults Recreational Class
Dear fencing friends and families, Due to some recurring interest, we are happy to announce an Adults Recreational class on Thursdays at...
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CFA Admin
- Oct 1, 2020
- 1 min
October 2020 Newsletter.
Dear fencing friends and families, It is an absolute pleasure to announce that Cardinal Fencing Academy won the Washington Parent Picks...
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CFA Admin
- Sep 17, 2020
- 1 min
Grant received: Thank you Loudoun County!
Dear all, we applied for the Loudoun County COVID19 business interruption fund and received the grant! We are extremely grateful and...
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CFA Admin
- Aug 31, 2020
- 3 min
2020-2021 Fencing Season starts Tuesday, September 8th.
Dear fencing friends and families, It’s hard to believe the Summer is over, it went by so fast! I think the COVID monster ate a few...
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CFA Admin
- Aug 28, 2020
- 1 min
The Last Lesson
We have a tradition at CFA: when a student moves away, their last lesson is to give a lesson. Thank you Sena for fencing with us until...
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CFA Admin
- Aug 10, 2020
- 7 min
Purchasing your equipment. (Updated September 2023)
SEPTEMBER 2023. This entry is now out of date. You may still read it to get some insight into various equipment details, but as of...
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CFA Admin
- Jul 19, 2020
- 3 min
COVID Safety lessons learned and improvements. (Updated November 23rd 2020)
Dear fencing friends and families, First, nothing brings more joy to us than the sounds of kids having fun, jumping around and just being...
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CFA Admin
- Jun 24, 2020
- 1 min
Day Camps split into Morning, Afternoon and Evening sessions
Dear fencing friends and family. After considering some lessons earned from our morning and evening sessions this week, and hearing some...
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CFA Admin
- Jun 21, 2020
- 2 min
CFA Reopens Monday June 22nd: protocols for camps and free-fencing.
Dear fencing friends and family. We are so exited to open our doors for group practices again! Our goal is to make you feel safe and...
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CFA Admin
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
Fencing Lesson Video Clips
Dear all, we will use this post to collect video clips to be used in discussions and examples of technique.
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CFA Admin
- Jun 10, 2020
- 1 min
Major Summer Camps Update!
Dear all, with North Virginia moving into Phase Two and the light at the end of this quarantine tunnel becoming brighter, we have updated...
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CFA Admin
- Jun 5, 2020
- 1 min
CFA Phase one pushed to Monday, June 15th.
Dear fencing friends and family. While we are so eager to get back to in-person lessons, and that having the garage door open with the...
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CFA Admin
- May 28, 2020
- 1 min
Virtual Lessons
Dear all, in this entry we will collect all the online lessons we have recorded during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Open for discussion...
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CFA Admin
- May 24, 2020
- 1 min
Interview with Olympian Jon Normile Part 2
Continuing to gather material for the CFA Book project, Coach Ilya and Jon go into aspects of the fencing career path from High School...
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CFA Admin
- May 23, 2020
- 2 min
May 2020 Newsletter: Summer Camps and Reopening.
Dear fencing friends and family. It has been over two months since we have seen you in person, heard the kids’ laughter during warm up...
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CFA Admin
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Our very own Michaela Joyce analyzes a bout with CyrusOfChaos
Dear all, please enjoy this lovely bout analysis video that Michaela made with internet personality and successful sabre fencer...
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CFA Admin
- May 10, 2020
- 1 min
Happy Mother's day!
Dear moms, especially the fencing moms of CFA! We wish you the best in life and lots of joy! Without your support and love, no journey...
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CFA Admin
- May 3, 2020
- 1 min
Interview with Jon Normile, USA Fencing Olympian and Veteran World Champion.
Jon and coach Ilya go into the reasons we love our sport, some technical details about fencing schools and a few anecdotes from the...
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CFA Admin
- May 2, 2020
- 2 min
Cardinal Fencing Academy Book Project
Dear all, hope you are well as well can be these days. This is Ilya Lobanenkov, the head coach and founder of CFA. I decided to write a...
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