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2025: 10 Year Anniversary of NYFA International Summer Epee Camps

September 15, 2025September 15, 2025By NY Fencing Academy (NYFA)

Thanks to all who joined the 2025 NYFA International Summer Fencing Camps! We’re proud and so grateful to celebrate this 10 year milestone with our campers, coaches, and staff. It’s been an amazing month where everyone worked hard, improved their skills, and enjoyed the summer together. ❤️ Until next year! 🌞🤺

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World-class training was made possible by our incredible coaching team: Misha Mokretsov (NYFA), Sergey Danilov (NYFA), Yarik Ponomarenko (NYFA), Anton Dutchak (NYFA), Fayzulla Alimov (NYFA), Romain Cannone (2020 Olympic and World Champion), Ahmed Abdallah (Duke), Slava Danilov (UPenn), Yury Mazur (Ukrainian Cadet National Team Coach), Fiona Fong (Medeo), Camille Yettou (Belgium National Team), Fausto Buratti (Italian coach), Kirill Krasnianskyi (Ukrainian coach), Vivien Maya (AFM), Tim Svidnitsky (Toronto FC), Vlada Khavaldzhi (Rain City), Sorah Shin (Battle Born Fencing Club), Camille Yettou (Belgium National Team), Stefano Buratti (NYFA ), and support from our camp manager, Marina Temiryaev (NYFA).

We welcomed 375 athletes, including fencers from Canada, UAE, France, Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, China, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Peru, Turkey, Japan, Hong Kong, USA. There were over 100 A-rated fencers and more than 20 national team members, Tokyo Olympic Games Champion, Senior World Champion, Cadet World Champions 2025 in boys and girls, European Champion in Juniors 2025, Junior World Cup Champions and World Championships medalists, and the Number 1 FIE Junior ranked fencer.

Go Camp NYFA! See you next year!

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2024 NYFA International Fencing Summer Sleepaway Camp

September 14, 2024By NY Fencing Academy (NYFA)

A big thank you to all the coaches, athletes, and staff who made the 2024 NYFA International Fencing Camps such an incredible experience! Over 360 fencers from across the globe trained and fenced together while making new friendships and great memories. We can’t wait to do it again next year!

Check out the many video and photo highlights on our Instagram at @fencenyfa.
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Kudos to our incredible coaching team: Michael Mokretsov (NYFA), Sergey Danilov (NYFA), Yarik Ponomarenko (NYFA), Anton Dutchak (NYFA), Stefano Buratti (NYFA), Fausto Buratti (guest coach from Italy), Slava Danilov (UPenn), Marat Israelian (Yale), Yury Mazur (Maximum Fencing), Sorah Shin (Battle Born), Kyrylo Krasnyanskiy (guest coach from Ukraine), Tim Svidnitsky (Toronto), Igor Gantsevich (Dynamo), Camille Yettou (Belgium National Team), Vlada Khavaldzhi (Rain City FC), Fayzula Alimov (Dubai FC), Zhanna Bikina (Academy of Fencing Masters), Stas Galper (Dynamo) and camp manager, Marina Temiryaev (NYFA).

We welcomed athletes from Canada, UAE, France, Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, China, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Peru, Turkey, Japan, USA, including 100 A-rated fencers, 20 National Team Members, Cadet World Champion and medalist, Cadet European Championships silver and bronze medalists, Junior World Champion, Cadet and Junior World Cup champions and Junior FIE #1 in ranked fencer in the World!

Join us next year! Go Camp NYFA!

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2023 NYFA International Fencing Summer Camp Highlights

August 24, 2023By NY Fencing Academy (NYFA)

The 2023 NYFA International Camp is in the books! Thank you all the coaches, athletes and staff who made our camp possible! We set a new record with over 360 fencers from all over the world! We trained, made new friends, had fun and became better together! We wish you the best of luck in the upcoming season and we will see you next year!

Here are a few highlights and memories. Go to Instagram at @fencenyfa for many more!
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Thank you to our incredible coaching team: Michael Mokretsov (NYFA), Sergey Danilov (NYFA), Yarik Ponomarenko (NYFA), Anton Dutchak (NYFA), Stefano Buratti (NYFA), Slava Danilov (UPenn), Alexey Sintchinov (Penn State), Zoryana Semeryak (Lviv), Sorah Shin (Battle Born), Kyrylo Krasnyanskiy (guest coach from Ukraine), Tim Svidnitsky (Toronto), Igor Gantsevich (Dynamo), Renata Knapek (Polish National Team), and camp manager, Marina Temiryaev (NYFA).

NYFA 2023 International Fencing Camp Coaching Team

We enjoyed working with all of our camp athletes who came from Canada, UAE, France, Ukraine, Poland, Netherlands, Great Britain, China, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Turkey, Japan, USA, and included 100 A-rated fencers, 20 National Team Members, Cadet and Junior World Cup Champions , U23 and Cadet European Champion, and Senior World Champion!

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2022 NYFA International Fencing Summer Camp Highlights

August 23, 2022March 2, 2024By NY Fencing Academy (NYFA)

“Camp is over! It’s been a great month with kids from all over the world, from small beginners to pro-level athletes who fence on the national teams of their countries, so you can find both sparring and a good friend for anyone. Daily training outdoors and indoors, personal lessons with different coaches, video reviews, food for every taste, a variety of activities such as rafting and hiking, and incredible nature among the mountains – that’s what a NYFA Sleep away camp is. We were glad to see everyone here and invite you to join us next year, there will be even more different, cool people and experiences!” – Coach Misha Mokretsov

Huge thanks to our stellar coaching team! Pictured below (l-r): Yarik Ponomarenko (NYFA), Misha Mazur (CIFA),Slava Danilov (UPenn), Sorah Shin (True Focus Sports Academy), Zhanna Bikkina (AFM), Zoryana Semeryak (Lviv Fencing Academy), Sergey Danilov (NYFA), Misha Mokretsov (NYFA), Alexey Sintchinov (Penn State), Anton Dutchak (NYFA), Tim Svidnitsky (TFC), and (not pictured) Stefano Buratti (NYFA). Let’s also thank our support staff including camp manager Marina Temiryaev, and camp health director Marina Krumholz.

This was our biggest camp so far with almost 300 athletes over 3 sessions including 14 National Team Members, 5 World Championships medalists, and about 100 A-rated fencers! They came from across the US, Ukraine, Canada, UAE, Great Britain, China, Italy, France, Switzerland, Taiwan, Israel, and Mexico.

“Just take a look at these hard working and amazing athletes who took part in three different sessions, this year we gathered almost 300 fencers and 15 coaches. We are looking for next year to make this camp even bigger and better! 💪🤺” – Camp Team NYFA

For many more photos, videos & highlights, follow us on Instagram at @fencenyfa!

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Looking forward to seeing everyone next year. Be sure to join us for Summer 2023!

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2022 Summer Sleepaway Fencing Camp Registration Open

February 3, 2022February 3, 2022By NY Fencing Academy (NYFA)

Registration is open for the 2022 NYFA International Summer Fencing Camp! Spots are limited and early deadline is April 1. We will have 3 sessions at the Storm King School in Cornwall-On-Hudson, New York:

JULY 16-25, 2022
JULY 26-AUGUST 4, 2022
AUGUST 5-14, 2022

Sign-up for all 3 sessions and receive 6 free private lessons with top college and club epee coaches. Our sleepaway camps are ideal for fencers ages 10 & up with at least 1 year of experience. Go to our Summer Fencing Camp page to register and get all the details you need to join us for another fantastic summer of fencing and fun!

Check out our new camp video below (or here: https://youtu.be/NaVczm8nAAs)