Cheyenne Fencing Society & Modern Pentathlon Center Of Denver

In addition to fencing classes, our center also offers training in modern pentathlon. A sporting event composed of five different elements; pentathlon begins with fencing before requiring competitors to show proficiency in swimming, horseback riding, running, and shooting. Members of the club, under the tutelage of Elaine, have won medals nationally and competed internationally in Modern Pentathlon. Owner, Elaine Cheris is passionate about this sport and works closely with Team USA - Modern Pentathlon to encourage promising young athletes.

In each progressive step, the author, Elaine Cheris, explains the importance of a major skill, presents sequential illustrations to show you how to perform the skill, and then provides a series of drills to refine and master the skill. With electronic scoring, we no longer depend on (five) judges to see or hear our touches, which means we can move much quicker. Today's fencing match is much faster than yesterday's and much more efficient. This revised material was originally published in 1992 in a booklet issued by USFA written by Elaine Cheris.

Elaine Cheris is an Olympian she is a prominent member of the US fencing and pentathlon community. Her achievements, shown in the box to the side, speaks for itself. When you walk into her Denver Fencing club you are welcomed by people who want to share their passion for these sports and develop youngsters to take it to where ever their heart and actions want to take them, whether that be local tournaments, national competitions or even the Olympics. If you just want to get fit, while being physically and mentally challenged with fencing as a recreational pursuit that is OK too.

What makes these fencing classes so different is that while coaches, Barret and Zack demonstrate the moves and lead all the exercises, owner and Olympian, Elaine Cheris keeps an eye on every student; keeping them on track, focussed and doing each activity correctly. These classes come to you live from our Denver Fencing Club. Elaine gets down to the technical level, matching the expectation of skill to the experience level of the fencer. Making sure the kids are in total view so she can see that every foot and arm extension, parry, riposte, seconde, prime, coupe, lunge, bounce, advance or retreat is carried out in the correct manner.