Fencing Youth Chicago
Giving back through fencing
Fencing is more than just a sport, it’s a developmental tool that carries great benefits for the growth of young children.
Fencing is About you.
- Fencing helps your body physically as well as your brain mentally
- Fencing helps develop your coordination, speed and balance
- Fencing helps develop your abstract thinking through the combination of strategy, speed, timing, distance, and stretch
- Fencing is an independent sport and makes you more self-reliant and promote self-confidence
- Fencing is a team sport, and will help you foster sportsmanship and social awareness
- Fencing is a team sport, and will help you foster sportsmanship and social awareness
- Fencing helps you understand to celebrate victory, but you must also accept defeat and learn from it
What we can do.
- First, it’s not familiar as football, soccer, or baseball – for the obvious fact that, you just can’t pick up a fencing blade and play with the kid next door. Not everyone owns a fencing blade, and you really do need specialize equipment to fence.
- Second, although some people say fencing is not expensive, the truth is – It does cost! Many kids can’t afford to just “try” fencing.
- Third, many kids just don’t have access to a place to go fence, and/or other fencers that they can fence with! You really can’t just go to the neighborhood park!
We want to change this. We want to get into your school or your organization. We want to teach your young kids, in small groups, to fence! We want the wonderful developmental benefits to apply for all kids. Mostly, we want to make fencing fun and accessible to all young kids who might otherwise not get a chance to. We do this ALL for FREE!
Contact Us and let us show you what we can do!
you ask Why.
Living in the city, you often hear two things affecting kids – Youth Crime and Youth Mental Health.
This is more than an inspired school service requirement. This has become more than just a cause.
- This is about helping kids!
- This is about helping our community!
Our Mission:
Youth Fencing Chicago (YFC) was created because we recognize that fencing is a unique sport that can have tremendous impact on kid’s mind and how they think. We see this as an opportunity to use fencing as a developmental tool to help the kids in Chicago communities who would normally not get a chance to benefit from this sport.
YFC is youth-led and youth-focused and will work with schools and organizations in Chicago to assist them with resources and access to fencing.
Impacting Communities.
Our Supporters.
Youth Fencing Chicago’s grassroots ability to support transformative changes in local youths depends heavily on the generosity of donors, organizations, and foundations. We want to thank the following people and organizations who have contributed to our efforts in 2024:
Anonymous
The Vu-Nguyen Family
The Elterman Family
The O’Donnell Family
The Beckman Family
The Dhal Family
The Compton Family
Samira, Thomas, Lena and Noah
Tristan, Armand, and Cassian
The Miller-Buchholz Family
The McKeague Family
The Jessen Family
The Abella-Ruby Family
The Jakobe Family
The Lewis Family
Leah Jayasanker
Katie Lai, Ayax Vargas and Anabel
The Vuillemin Family
The Benton Family
The Fischer-Stern Family
Matthew Landa
Peggy Doyle
Kevin Mork
The Zeffy Corporation
Windy City Fencing
Fencing Center of Chicago
Bronzeville Fencing Academy