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Shakespeare's Swords hold training sessions, open to all, twice a week in the Levi Fox Hall (probably the finest fencing training venue in Britain!) at King Edward VI School in Stratford upon Avon town centre.
The club has, without doubt, potentially one of the best coaching teams available to fencing in the UK and has an impressive record, over a number of years, of member's achievements, both nationally and internationally to show for it. Go to about us to find out about the club, background, coaches and more...

TRAINING TIMES & PLACES

Fencing in Shakespeare's Swords takes place in term time,usually in the Levi Fox Hall at King Edward VI School, Chapel Lane, Stratford upon Avon. Sometimes KES needs its hall and we move to the gym or the lecture theatre; we are usually around somewhere in the school.

Training times are as follows.

4.00-5.45pm (Wednesday and Thursday) Shakespeare's Club
5.45-7.00pm (Wednesday) Club extension (open to all)
6.00-8.00pm (Thursday) Squad training (by invitation only)

Individual private lessons can be arranged with any of the coaches.

Our fencing Salle is the Levi Fox Hall, a building purpose built for fencing training and competitions. It has a £0.25M national standard sprung floor marked with nine permanent pistes, which are used for training and competitions. It has a 15m run of 2m high mirror to practice techniques and skills and the hall itself is nearly 30mx20m. As an acoustic hall it makes coaching easy as the clashing of blades and sound of voices do not echo through the building. The Levi fox Hall is prepared for football, basketball, cricket nets, badminton and of course fencing. We have a further area in the gymnasium with another three pistes and basketball court.

For tournaments there is a built-in PA system in the Hall, a refreshment area with kitchen and comfortable chairs and spectator balcony viewing, which allows uninterrupted view of any piste from anywhere on the spectators' stand. It has the facility for raised pistes in varying combinations for gala finals. The Levi Fox Hall is probably the finest fencing training venue in Britain.