Second Seminar at the Asian Continent

28 coaches from 20 countries and five Presidents of National Fencing Federations of Asian countries took part in the seminar, arranged by the International Charity Fund "for the Future of Fencing" in Almaty.

In March last year in Almaty (Kazakhstan) the first Asian seminar was held by the International Charity Fund "for the Future of Fencing" for fencing coaches. The Fund has received a great number of letters from Asia and Oceania,  gratitude and requests with gratitude and requests to arrange such a seminar in 2008. The decision was taken by the Fund to organize the second Asian Seminar for coaches in Almaty and to allocate funds for its arrangement. Vitaly Logvin, the second Vice-President of the Fund was authorized for the seminar arrangements. Oleg Peskov, Vice-President of the Fund in Asia and Oceania affairs and Boris Fomenko also participated in the seminar preparations. They had drawn up a program for coaches of children and the beginners in three types of weapons.  By tradition, famous fencing coaches were involved in training sessions. Like a year ago, foil fencing was taught by Boris Fomenko (Denmark), training in sabre was conducted by Valery Dyakokin (Kazakhstan), epee training was made by Maria Mazina (Russia), Champion of 2000 Olympics in Sydney. After the seminar, Mazina shared her impressions with the reporter of the Fund "for the Future of Fencing” web-site:

 
I highly appreciate the input in our sport, made by Alisher Usmanov, the President of the Russian Fencing Federation and the President of the European Fencing Confederation. Here in Almaty, I was able to see how much attention to the world fencing issues is paid by the Fund “For the Future of Fencing, established by Mr. Usmanov. The seminar participants absorbed my every word, made notes after individual lessons. They were literally shining with happiness, realizing that they have a unique opportunity to comprehend the subtleties fencing art traning”.

The seminar was attended by 28 beginners in coaching from 20 countries and 5 Presidents of national federations. Such seminars are doubtlessly helpful and necessary to the Asian continent fencing to improve the skills of young coaches which, in turn, will promote fencing in Asian countries. This is actually the core objective of the  International Charity Fund "for the Future of Fencing” activities.