Darius – a frequent contributor to the Fencing Discussion Forums, will be attending the coaching clinic in Colorado Springs this week and will be blogging about the coaching experience there.
The clinic is the Pan-American Sports Organization’s "High Level Technical Courses for Fencing Coaches" at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Darius explains that the clinic:
is being offered with USOC International Relations money, so rather than send US Fencing poobahs on wine-and-dine junkets, they’re sponsoring a coaching clinic, using "Learn how we got 6 Gold medals at the Olympics!" as a teaser, and attracting coaches from all over the Pan Am zone. So far I’ve met some Brazilians and some Chileans. The coaches involved in putting on the clinic aren’t really the ones responsible for our medal haul (except in foil), but that doesn’t necessarily mean the conference won’t be good.
