AG Open 2024 Workshop:

Instead of traditional classes, instructors will be available in the sparring area for a 1 hour long “Ask Me Anything” type format. This means that if you have a lot of people participating you can run through a traditional class, or if it’s a few people you can run though your perspectives or any questions that they want to ask you about fencing, or even if it’s one person you can take the time to free fence them and give some advice.

In order to give a little more focus, and make it less intimidating for someone to come up and speak to our instructors, we ask you to submit 2-4 topics that you feel are your specialties and you’d particularly like to work with people on.

Examples: “transitions from fencing to grappling”, “fencing activities for conditioning”, “direct attacks”, “learning to adapt in a match”.

AG Open 2024 Lecture:

The lecture format is a 50 minute lecture and 10 minute question period. This year we have rented a lecture room directly across the tournament hall to make it less of a trek to attend the lecture, and have reduced from 14 to ~8-10 lectures in order to have the attendance be less diluted.

We are looking for a wide range of submissions, including historical context lectures and modern sport science. You may submit 2 lecture topics and we’ll let you know which we feel fits the event the best. (Though I guess nothing is stopping you from doing this form multiple times to get many ideas in front of us.)