Toronto Fencing Center
67B Lesmill Road, (SE of Leslie and Hwy401)
Monday to Friday, 4:30 to 9:30pm
Telephone: 416-384-1200
Email: info@tfc.on.ca
Epee Training (Mon, Tue and Thu)
Foil Training (Mon, Wed and Fri)
Coaches
High Performance Training
Peter Ho (Coaching – Epee and Foil)
Peter is one of Canada’s premiere coaches. He has been coaching for 27 years both in Hong Kong and Canada. Highlights include coaching: the Canadian National Women’s Epee Team for the Pan Am games (1999); the wheelchair fencing team for the Paralympics (Barcelona 1992/ Sydney 2000). He was voted Coach of the Year by the Fencing Academy of Canada Women’s Epee 1996/1997. He has coached 13 National Team Fencers since 1993. NCCP Level III coach in Epee and Foil. Learning Facilitator for CBET.
(Home) 416-502-0938 (Cell) 647-272-5438
peter.ho@tfc.on.ca
Andrew Hu (Coaching – Epee and Foil)
With 20 years of fencing experience, Andrew was a member of the Chinese National Fencing Team for over 4 years and won several medals in both Asian and World competitions. He was the Assistant Coach for the Chinese National Epee Team between the years 2001 and 2004: one of his students winning a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Since immigrating to Canada 5 years ago, Andrew has coached at both universities and clubs; successfully coaching several Canadian National Team Fencers.
(Cell) 416-887-9961
andrew.hu@tfc.on.ca
Vida, Huahua Li (Coaching – Foil)
Like many of our coaches Hua Hua is a world class fencer. Her achievements include a Gold medal in the team event at the Summer Universaide in Edmonton (1983), ranking 5th in the team even at both the Los Angeles (1984) and Seoul (1988), Olympics, winning a Silver medal in team event at Summer Universiade in Yugoslavia (1987) at which she was awarded Miss World Fencing title (given only once to date). She was the head coach of the Guang Dong Provincial Women’s Foil Team which ranked 2nd in the team event at the Chinese National Fencing Championships.
(Home) 416-226-9177 (Cell) 416-241-9829
huahua.li@tfc.on.ca
Youth Knight Program
Thomas Masmejean (Coaching – Epee)
Thomas has been fencing since he was seven years old and has been coaching since he was twelve. He was on the French National Fencing Team for three years qualifying for the World Cup events in Germany, Switzerland and Hungary. He fenced at the World Championships in Prague. In 2008 Thomas came to Canada and began coaching at TFC. In 2009 qualified for the Canadian Nationals representing the TFC team.
Beginner Program
Ducasse Jean (Program Manager)
(Coaching – Epee and Foil)
(Cell) 416-391-3154
ducasse.jean@tfc.on.ca
William Wong (Coaching – Epee and Foil)
William has been fencing since 1964. In the early 70’s he was the Hong Kong Foil Camp. In 1971 he was a member of the Hong Kong/Taiwan/Philippine Triangular All Arm Championship Team, from 1972 to 1974 he was the H.K.A.F.A. treasurer. He has coached foil in school and communities in Hong Kong and more recently in Canada. He is the current foil coach at York University and coaches both foil and epee at TFC.
Samuel Gallagher Pelletier
(Coaching – Epee)
Sebastien Dubois-Didcock
(Coaching – Epee)
Sebastien has been fencing for six years and coaching for three. As a fencer he has qualified for the Ontario Winter Games twice, been a member of the Ontario Elite Team, the National Cadet Team and qualified for the World Cadet Championships in Belfast (2009). “I coach because I like to see my students progress and achieve their own goals. Fencing to me did not only help me in sports but also helps me manage my life and learn to apply my emotional skills that I use on piste and in my life. I would like to be able to help my students learn to do that as well.”
(Cell) 416-453-2659
dubois.didcock@tfc.on.ca
Alexis D. Anna Rudkovska
(Coaching – Epee)
Alexis has been fencing for only three years but in that time she has received a Provincial Silver medal, a Junior National Gold medal (CSC) and represented Canada in the Heracles Junior World Cup in Budapest, finishing with the best Canadian Women's result.