Setting the
Gold Standard
Experienced coaching, proven methods and a facility built for performance — a world-class experience for every athlete who walks through our doors.
4500 S Vineland Rd.
Located just off I-4 near the Mall at Millenia, our state-of-the-art training facility can be reached in minutes from anywhere in Orlando. The center includes five regulation-length, grounded competition strips with overhead reels and scoring repeaters.
Impact-absorbing flooring provides a training surface designed to minimize muscle and joint fatigue and maximize athletic performance, so athletes of all ages can train safely. A cozy visitors' lounge includes a coffee and cold-beverage bar.
Five Strips
Everything You Need to Train
Grounded Strips
Five regulation-length competition strips with overhead reels and scoring repeaters for true bout conditions.
Performance Flooring
Impact-absorbing surface that minimizes muscle and joint fatigue, keeping fencers of every age training safely.
Visitors' Lounge
A comfortable, cozy lounge with a coffee and cold-beverage bar for families and fencers between bouts.
Robert Szokolay
Head Coach
Robert began fencing more than 45 years ago at Wayne State University, where he studied under Hungarian Fencing Master and Hall of Fame coach Istvan Danosi. A varsity letter winner on the 1977 and 1978 teams, he went on to win the Georgia Divisional in Men's Épée.
In 2015 he joined Music City Fencing Club in Nashville, where he began coaching. His students have won regional medals and qualified for both the Junior Olympics and the U.S. National Championships.
Robert still competes nationally and was recently ranked in the top 10 in the United States in his cohort (Vet-60 Men's Épée). At the 2019 U.S. National Fencing Championships he advanced to the semi-finals, earning bronze in Vet-60 Men's Épée — losing only his final bout to former Veteran World Champion Walter Dragonetti. His granddaughter, Mariah, is also a competitive fencer and trains with him regularly.
Vet-60 Bronze
A Lifetime Sport for Mind & Body
Fencing challenges both the mind and the body, and can be played at any age and ability level. Competitive categories run from ages 40 to 80 and beyond, and a wheelchair program called Parafencing welcomes individuals with amputations, spinal-cord injuries, cerebral palsy and more.
Though primarily an individual sport, hundreds of high schools, colleges and universities field fencing teams — combining individual and team success. We begin teaching children as young as eight, helping them build strength, coordination and confidence.
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All Ages
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