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Sinclair students learn the art of fencing in PED 297. "It's great mental exercise, as well as physical. They call it 'chess at 200 miles an hour,' " said William DeVan. DeVan teachs the fencing class. photo by Kamari Stevens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This quarter, Sinclair Community College students are participating in a sport that has been around since the 12th century\u2014fencing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great mental exercise, as well as physical. They call it \u2018chess at 200 miles an hour,\u2019 \u201d said William DeVan, who teaches fencing at Sinclair. \u201cYou have to probe their defenses, you have to attack from different angles and try different moves. And if they don\u2019t work, you have to be able to adjust your movements to compensate for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the first quarter that fencing has been available at Sinclair, according to DeVan. He added that his students have been very enthusiastic about the class, but prospective students should be aware that fencing isn\u2019t like what you may see on the silver screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people come into this thinking Hollywood or Jedi or something like that,\u201d said DeVan, who has fenced for 10 years. \u201cIf you are not willing to get bruised, you\u2019re not willing to work hard, physically, it really isn\u2019t the right sport for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeVan said that for people interested in finding out more about fencing should visit fencing.teamusa.org.<\/p>\n

DeVan began fencing after he saw a flyer that was offering classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a piece of paper, that was stapled to a stop sign, that said \u2018Hey, try (fencing) out,\u2019\u201d DeVan said. \u201c So, I did. And loved it ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n

His connection with Chair of the Exercise, Nutrition and Sports Sciences department, Billie Sanders\u2014DeVan gave Sanders\u2019 daughter fencing lessons\u2014led to the idea of having a fencing course at Sinclair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to Billie Sanders\u2026 so, we had discussed opening up a class (at Sinclair), and I was fortunate enough that she wanted me for the job,\u201d DeVan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This quarter, Sinclair Community College students are participating in a sport that has been around since the 12th century\u2014fencing. \u201cIt\u2019s great mental exercise, as well as physical. They call it \u2018chess at 200 miles an hour,\u2019 \u201d said William DeVan, who teaches fencing at Sinclair. \u201cYou have to probe their defenses, you have to attack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[499,274,497,1959,14,498],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-12th-century","tag-class","tag-fencing","tag-kamari-stevens","tag-sinclair","tag-sport"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-uK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}