Focused, Patient, Trustworthy
You don't need any qualifications to be a fencing coach at camp, but some knowledge and experience of the sport will help your application stand out. If you're passionate about teaching campers the sport you love, you'll be great at camp.
Spending your summer in Canada as a fencing coach is a great opportunity for people looking for fencing jobs abroad. As a fencing coach, you’ll be able to teach posture, footwork, attacking, and parrying - working on techniques that you've learned before.
Fencing teaches accuracy, agility and good sportsmanship.
Camp Directors will be looking for applicants who demonstrate a great level of trustworthiness and ability to motivate campers, as well as those who show great experience in this field.
You'll teach the basics to most campers, as they're usually new to this sport.
You can plan your lessons and organize fencing tournaments or competitions, which is a great way to motivate campers. It'll be a rewarding experience to see them improve their skills during camp.
If you’re not the best in the world at your activity, there’s no need to worry - you’ll be teaching kids who are just there to have fun, most will even be complete beginners. You’ll be fully trained before your campers arrive, and you’ll be supported by the other counsellors at your camp.
Some camps will want you to bring equipment for certain activities, but this will likely only be in the form of clothes and personal gear, but they’ll let you know this once you’re hired. Most often, you won’t have to bring any specialist equipment, with Canadian summer camps being equipped with state of the art facilities to develop the campers’ skills, as well as yours.
Most importantly, being an activity specialist gives you the opportunity to develop your skills in an area that you are passionate about, getting experience that’s not available anywhere else. Whilst you’ll be teaching your activity 5 or 6 periods a day, you’ll generally have more time off, with many specialists staying overnight with other specialists rather than campers. You’ll also get to know the whole camp, spending your days seeing different groups of campers into the activity and seeing them grow both in the skill and as people.
