Coaches

Current

Aleksandra Brès
On the piste since 6 yrs old, and helping to coach in her parents club at age 16.
- Team Silver Medal - Cadets European Championships
- Individual Bronze Medal - Juniors Polish Championships
- Team Gold Medal - Senior Polish Championships
- Bachelors in sports science and physical education
- Fencing Masters Qualification from The Polish Sports Academy Warsaw
and many younger age category medals. Aleks was a member of her country’s senior National Squad (Poland is one of the best fencing nations with a long history of exceptional achievements). She is a very tactical and empathetic coach - (DofEd. Teacher in special education needs)

Jonathon (JJ) Webb
Team GB athlete.
London 2012
Sports ambassador. GLL
True Athlete Project Mentor.
The True Athlete Project.
The gold medal winner at the Senior British Nationals and Senior National Sabre Champion. (2016)
2011-2020 represented Team GB at all major internationals including World and European Championships.
JJ has recently returned from the USA where he trained in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualifications.

Atom (Tomi) Soghoyan
Team Armenia athlete.
Msc in sport 1987
Soviet Union National Championships finalist.
Turkish cadet national team coach (foil)
Bulgarian Junior national team coach.
Tomi also coached on the Olympic pathway youth programme in Yerevan and has 18 yrs of full time coaching experience. In the UK for last six years he has been coaching senior foilist of the Ireland Team and is a resident coach at The Lansdowne Club.

Mark Kent

"His performance was excellent at the courses of planning and methodology of individual and team training."

-D Szepesi, Coach Committee, F.I.E.

Mark studied for 20 years under Ziemek Wojciechowski (GB Olympic coach for Men's Foil 88 to 2020) & his students have achieved International representation level for Cadet and U.20. Specialist in comparative analysis studies in proprioception & mental chronometry.

2003 International Diploma L5
2007 postgraduate Fencing (Semmelweis University, Budapest)
2015 Italian association of fencing masters
Diploma subjects include combat psychology, nutrition, conditioning, training theory and sports injuries.

Footnote: All coaches are registered with BritishFencing and all staff have undergone rigorous training & checks in safeguarding, first aid, sport specific modules etc.

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