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LEBY Fencing's Special Offerings Include:

For more information, please go to http://www.aboutpaintball.com. We offer various trips during the year to world-renowned Skirmish USA in Jim Thorpe, PA. We sponsor two to four trips per year. Average cost for all equipment and paint is $50-75.

Taught by Greg Ramsey and Gary Rusen

Come to the LEBY Fencing club and experience a whole new way to fence. We have combined the elements of all the weapons foil, epee, and saber blended it with the romance and excitement of the old fashioned duel.

Each fencer has two weapons - a saber in one hand and a flexie dagger in the other. Fencers wear a foil lame and a saber mask, with the head and torso being targets. The traditional right-of-way from foil is in effect, leading with either weapon. There is the possibility of double touches depending on the discretion of the referee. Even with minimal instruction in traditional fencing you can participate in this unique style of fencing. Please view the photos and come and join us.

Double Fencing in Action

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(these photos can also be viewed in the gallery)

Possible classes to be offered in Spring 2003 - Broadsword, Rapier/Dagger, Swashbuckler, Quarter-staff, knife fighting, hand to hand.

What is Stage Combat?
Stage Combat is a theatrical movement discipline, which provides the actor a safe way to perform violent scenes whether armed or unarmed. The art of Stage Combat should be approached with respect, and prepared and practiced under the supervision of a professional Fight Director or Certified Teacher. If proper safety is observed, Stage Combat can be an incredibly exciting and rewarding discipline, not to mention a heck of a lot of FUN!

Each workshop will be an intensive five-hour course, and all workshop theatrical prop-weapons will be provided. An official SAFD Certificate of completion will be awarded to each participant at the conclusion of the session.

These workshops will be held at the Lebanon YMCA at the VA. Please click here for directions to the VA, or call the VA (717) 272-2046 or the YMCA at (717) 273-2691.

For further information, please contact Greg Ramsey via email at Sabre@desupernet.net or by phone at (717) 272-7265.

Class size is limited. In order to guarantee a spot, please get your payment in as soon as possible. Send payment to: Greg Ramsey, 210 Riders Way, Lebanon, PA 17042.

Greg Ramsey

Gregory Ramsey
Certified Teacher SAFD, Society of American Fight Directors, SAFD Regional Rep. Western PA, Artistic Board of Directors IOSP, International Order of the Sword and Pen, Artistic Director PA Renaissance Faire, AEA Certified Canadian Fight Director, Member USFCA.

After training as a Shakespearean actor in the Bard's native country, Greg returned state-side and furthered his career performing, writing, directing, and choreographing Stage Fights, Stunts, and action sequences for theatres and festivals across the country. Greg is currently the Artistic Director and The Fight Director and Stunt Coordinator for Mount Hope Estate and the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire. Every year Mount Hope Estate produces seven major Festivals: Roaring 20's, Wild West, Blast from the Past, Celtic Fling, PA Renaissance Faire, Poe Evermore, and Dickens' Victorian Christmas. In total these festivals comprise as many as 60 original in house productions a year with many of them being Action Stunt Shows. Greg is an Equity actor, a Certified Canadian Fight Director, a Certified Teacher of Stage Combat by the Society of American Fight Directors and a graduate of The United Stuntman's Association, Stunt School. Greg together with his wife Kate has created Ramsey Productions. A company dedicated to the artistic expression of their marriage, always an exciting evening of mayhem; with shows ranging from the swashbuckling swordplay for "Kiss of Steel", to "The Best of the Bard" and recently including "Pickett", a play about General George Pickett. Greg will be teaching the intermediate class in fencing at the Leby fencing club.

Information to come soon!