About Inspire Fencing

Inspire Fencing offers experienced coaching and quality affordable equipment sales for fencers of all ages, social and competitive.

Whether you're fifty-seven and finally have the time to try out the sport, or you're thirty-four and you're training for Nationals - Coach Avery can provide you with the skills you need to lift your fencing game.

Uncle to fourteen nieces and nephews, Coach Avery loves teaching fencing to children of all ages. From five-year-olds who want to learn fencing because their big sibling is a fencer, to thirteen-year-olds who have been inspired to try fencing after watching Star Wars or Wednesday.

Inspire Fencing imports safe and affordable fencing equipment from our trusted suppliers.

• 350N - Equipment for Club and State (Tasmanian) events.

• 800N/1600N - Equipment for National & International events.

If you want to purchase a kit (e.g. Jacket, chest guard, mask & glove), ask Coach Avery about discounts.

About Coach Avery

• AFF Accredited Epee Coach

• Working With Vulnerable People check

• Current First Aid, including CPR

• AIS Community Coaching General Principles

• Oceania Fencing Confederation Epee Coach Level 2

• National and International Medalist

• Tasmanian Representative

• Head Coach
  Van Diemen Fencing Club
  2011 - Present

• President
  Tasmanian Fencing Association
  2018 - Present

• Coach
  Tasmanian University Fencing Club
  2002-2005, 2017 - 2023

• Trainee Coach
  Bayeux Fencing Club
  2001-2004

• International training:
  Haverstock Fencing Club, London, UK
  Mangiarotti Cav. Edoardo, Milan, Italy

• Avery Holderness-Roddam is an Australian Fencing Federation accredited Coach, providing quality fencing coaching in Tasmania, Australia.
   

• Inspire Fencing is the result of twenty years of fencing, seventeen years of coaching, and fourteen years of running Van Diemen Fencing Club. 
   

• Avery's philosophy is that the sport should be fun and challenging, with an emphasis on skill acquisition and good sportsmanship.
  Avery’s coaching style is informed by the Di Ciolo school of coaching, which is based on the Montessori philosophy and Carl Rogers’ teachings. The aim is to give students the space to find their own answers and to support them to learn to fence without spoon-feeding them.
   

• Fencers can be social and/or competitive. Avery provides additional opportunities for competitive fencers to undertake high-performance training regularly in Southern Tasmania and takes groups of fencers to interstate tournaments throughout the year.
   

• Coach Avery implemented a cloth badge grading system based on the British Fencing grading system, which has been popular at Van Diemen Fencing Club.
   

• Inspire Fencing is Tasmania's only supplier of fencing equipment. Avery sells only equipment he is willing to use himself, from manufacturers he trusts. Equipment prices are kept as low as possible, meaning that anyone can own their own gear without having to pay an arm and a leg.