Archive for September, 2009

A Tribute to a great sport.

Greetings, Every once in a while I get asked, “what is Fencing?” To which I would have to reply: Discipline. Focus. Determination. Class. Style. Energy. We will be creating a video to illustrate this the EGD way, but until then.

September 27th, 2009 - In Updates

Even President Obama Fences!

Greetings, Thought we would share with you some recent media footage of President Obama, showing his support for the U.S.A to host the next Olympics. Coincidentally, he happened to be a fan of fencing! So members of the Olympic fencing team gave him a demonstration. Check out the link below to watch the footage. BBC [...]

September 21st, 2009 - In Updates

Featured on ABC News 7!

Greetings Friends, We took a few of our students to the Little Murder movie set to have a behind scenes “movie career day”.  They had a lot of fun, and some students even made great connections for their future in the industry. Check out the video below: “Local Fencers take a stab at Hollywood.” //

September 17th, 2009 - In Updates

En Garde! Detroit’s Summer of Community Revitalization.

Greetings Friends & Supporters, It has been a wonderful summer with many advancements in our efforts. We set a goal to instruct 400 youth this summer with a 7 man team, we shoot for the moon in this office. We did ended up landing among the stars, instructing close to 300 low-income inner city youth [...]

September 5th, 2009 - In Local News, Updates

Fencing in the new movie Little Murder!

In continuing with our mission of increasing the exposure of fencing, we will be working with Little Murder Productions to add fencing to one of their action scenes. Its an honor to be working with the Little Murder crew as they help us add new and exciting sports to major motion pictures. They are supporting [...]

September 5th, 2009 - In Updates