Collegiate Fencers

Coach Yung is extremely passionate about fencing, and is constantly sharing his enormous amount of experience with the team. Both in practice and on the strip, he is an amazing coach and is able to adapt to the needs of each individual team member in order to help them improve and be the best fencer that they can be.

David Parker
​Haverford Sabre Fencer
2017 MACFA Sabre Team Champions



My name is John Hare, I have been fencing competitively for 7 years, and I am a student-athlete at Haverford College.  My best results include 1st in Division 1A points for the 2015-2016 season, 2nd at Division 2 Nationals in 2015, and 2nd at MACFA Championships 2017. 
During just one season training with Wang, I experienced more improvement than in any other year of fencing.  His lessons were always excellent, as he maintained an encouraging attitude while still demanding precision from every action.  Additionally, his drills did a superb job at improving overall technique along with providing a tactical setting for those actions.
He is also the best stirp coach I have ever had.  He has a very calming and reassuring presence and knows exactly what to say to help me stay in the moment while fencing.  While he has only strip coached me for one event, MACFA Championships, I have never been more relaxed while fencing.  It is truly remarkable how he is able to break down a bout to its most basic actions.
Overall I think Wang is an exceptional coach both on and off the strip.  He demands excellence, but does so with compassion.  He is extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of fencing but communicates that knowledge in a very approachable way.  And to boot he is a very quick and dangerous fencer.  

John Hare
​Haverford Sabre Fencer
2017 MACFA Sabre Team Champions



"Wang Yung is an incredibly talented and intelligent coach. The plethora of advice and insight he has into this sport is an invaluable asset to our team. One on one, he is excellent at seeing and fixing the small flaws in a fencer in order to create a better whole. Being a lazy fencer is not something he will let you get away with, and because of that, these past two years have held some of the best fencing of my career."
 
Anna Neuheardt 
Haverford Fencer 


USFCA Northeast Region Coaching Clinic
Pioneer Valley Fencing Academy   April, 2017

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The passion and dedication of the instructors was amazing.  I learned a great deal of practical information that I can apply in my regular fencing instruction.  Equally important, I got a deeper sense of how much more there is to learn, and a better understanding of how I can continue to develop my skills and knowledge in order to become a better fencing instructor and coach.  A heartfelt "Thank you!" to Paul Sise, John Krauss, Bruce Gillman, and Wang Yung.

James Leland                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Concord Fencing Club​​
Coaches Training Participants

Wang Yung's Saber Clinic at PVFA was a big surprise and a delight. Having been fencing for a long time, it was a surprise and a delight to find a new approach to well-established footwork techniques. Maitre Yung embodies the principle of "question everything", and seems to have revealed something important. I can't wait to try to figure out how to teach it to new fencers, and to convert existing fencers to new ways. Wang Yung is a rich source of in-depth understanding about fencing Saber. It was also a surprise and a delight to see well-established coaches working to absorb the new concepts and try them out themselves. Fencers and coaches alike were left with plenty of new ideas to process and plenty of things to try. As always Paul Sise was an excellent host.

Dave Brown Moniteur d'Escrime: Foil, Epee & Saber, USFCA 

"Yet another great clinic at PVFA! Wang Yung didn't just provide some of the sabre drills that I was looking for to help improve my fencing and that of my sabre students. He introduced an entirely different philosophy of footwork and movement, applicable to to all three weapons and all age groups that will change my coaching and the fencers I work with for years to come."

2012 Olympian

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2012 Egyptian Olympian who trained with Yung before London Games"

Young Fencers
2009 & 2013 Silver, 2010 Bronze, 2011 Silver 
& 2012, 2013 & 2014 Veteran World Champion

I live on the east coast, but travel to Washington Fencing Academy three times a year to take sabre instruction from Coach Wang Yung.  Wang has that rare ability to pace his instruction to the learning needs of fencers at all ages.  (I started fencing when I was over 60 years old.)  Wang’s footwork and blade work are uniquely designed for maximum effectiveness while maintaining the style and grace that exemplifies fencing  Coach Wang's pushing footwork helps me disguise actions during competition. The education he has given me in blade actions has increased both my attack and my riposte speed significantly. My improved fencing skills were validated this October when I won the world championship in saber in my category at the 2012 Veteran World Fencing Championships in Krems, Austria.

Coach Wang Yung’s teaching style is positive, supportive, patient, and yet demanding.  He clearly understands his students.  He has helped me believe in myself as an athlete, which is something I would not even dreamed of just a few years ago.

Ellen O’Leary
2011 Veteran World Silver & Bronze Medalist

"I recently attended one of Wang's footwork clinics.  It changes the way I do footwork in a positive way.  I believe it had a lot to do with my recent success at the veterans' world championships in Croatia.  In response to Wang's coaching I focused more on my footwork and doing it the way he taught me.  I believe this had a lot to do with my results.  I finished 2nd in my epee event and 3rd in my foil event.  I have never won two medals at the same competition.  (As a matter of fact I'm only the second American to do so.)  My thanks to Wang for his coaching, his support and his friendship. 

Jim Adams 
2011 US Veterans Team

Varsity Fencing Coach

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"Wang Yung was able to be with us for only two short days but made a big impression on our fencers.
Teaching them about proper footwork and showing them the advantages of constant practice in refining their movement.
Wang's friendly and calm demeanor made for a very comfortable learning environment. Both new and senior fencers saw the benefits of his 'pushing footwork' and our Sabre fencers made significant improvement in their footwork because of his attention to detail".

Brad Winder
University of Western Ontario
Varsity Fencing Coach
Head Instructor Mustang Sword Club





2010 & 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2016
Veteran World Champion

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For 10 years Wang Yung has been a wonderful coach and friend. In national competitions he's coached me to win almost 40 gold and two silver medals. Internationally he coached me to a bronze medal in Veteran Sabre at the 2008 World Championships in Limoge, France and in October 2010, with Wang’s coaching, I won the World Championship in Veteran Saber in Porec, Croatia.  In 2011 I won silver and once again in 2013 in Bulgaria, 2014 in Hungary, 2015 in France and 2016 in Germany Wang coached me to win gold in the individual Veteran Women's Sabre event. 

During my lessons he pushes me to my limits and allows me the space to panic and rebel all the while strongly holding the image of what I can be.  I trust and know that he believes I can do something even when I can’t imagine it.  With his lifelong knowledge and experience of the sport and his great ability to explain the how and why of what he is teaching, I have become more consistently successful in competition than I ever could have imagined.  His encouragement and his pushing footwork & unique blade-work has allowed me to express my greatest fencing potential so far.

If you choose to work with Wang Yung as your coach you will learn more than just fencing technique, you will learn about yourself, what blocks are holding you back, and just how much further you can go in life… not just in fencing.

Jane Eyre



Fencing Mom

Wang Yung has coached my two daughters for the past six years.His knowledge and passion for fencing plus his mentoring of Grace and Holly has been beyond our expectations. 

Overall, Wang’s approach to coaching has been 3 pronged:

1)       Inquisitive.  Wang’s knowledge and expertise comes not only from his ongoing years of international competition, but by asking questions.  His friendships with world renown competitors and coaches allows him to ask them  and learn how to improve his own skills, but also how to better communicate these things as a coach.

The second part to this is Wang’s most asked question to his students, “what have you learned?”Through this one simple question he learns how each of his students think and can communicate his lessons on a more personal level.

2)       Teaching/Sharing. Wang’s strongest belief is to share his passion and knowledge of fencing to all who are interested.No matter if your goal is to become a top level competitor or fencing for pleasure.This goes beyond his students to the parents.Wang is always eager to help me understand the sport of fencing and show what my daughters have learned. His clear and articulate instructions have helped Grace and Holly advance through their lessons quickly and become very competitive on a National level.

His hours of time he has given to Grace, Holly and us, the parents, at Nationals teaching and explaining what we are seeing, meeting  international and Olympic competitors and coaches discussing the sport of fencing is a common occurrence and has been one of my favorite memories being around Wang. 

3)       Taking it beyond the strip. Wang’s most important lesson he gives his students is how they can apply these lessons in their daily lives – off the strip.  Wang gives great thought about how the sport of fencing can correlate to everyday life.Learning how to focus, persevere and continue to work hard will always give you personal growth and positive accomplishments.And when things don’t go well, to learn how to forgive yourself, ask why it didn’t work and plan how you can change the outcome next time.These are things I often hear him talk to them about.

Grace and Holly have integrated these ideas into their own lives many times:creating strong friendships with people they have a common passion with, ask questions of others and themselves and teach/share their passion openly with others.

Wang has not only been a wonderful coach, but he has been a great mentor and friend.

Lee Madland
Young Fencer

"I fenced with Wang Yung as my coach for six years, and he has helped me to grow both as a fencer and as a person. He taught me to have mental, emotional and physical endurance, and to learn from my experiences to become a stronger individual. When I reached my junior and senior year of high school, the college search took over my life, and I could not fence as much as I wanted to. Wang understood my dilemma, and he allowed me to fence at my own pace. For Wang, fencing is more than just a sport. It is a way of life. He will push you and help you to become great, but he also wants you to love fencing. He is very light hearted, and will throw in a frequent impersonation of some actor or character from a movie (he does a mean Clint Eastwood). In short, if you fence with Wang Yung as your coach, you will become an excellent fencer, and you will fall in love with the sport of fencing."
 
In 2012 Grace earned a USFCA Moniteur Certification and is now coaching sabre at her school club in Gettsyburg College in Pennsylvania.

Grace Madland




World Cup Fencer
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I was a member of the Taiwan national saber team. I competed in international World Cups and World Championships. I was also on the coaching staff of the Oregon Fencing Alliance, the home of the U.S. National Women Sabre Team and the 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold medalist in sabre.

Wang Yung was my coach and fencing partner. Wang was a very dedicated coach and taught me technique and tactics to compete at a very high level. He is a superb fencing technician who pays attention to every fencing movement. When Wang first took me in as a student in late 2000, I was a blank sheet of paper. I took up fencing for one year when I was a kid in 1992 while studying in China.  By 2000, the way saber was fenced had change dramatically and I had to relearn how to fence sabre. Wang's ability as a teacher got me back into fencing and changed the course of my life.

Wang spent hours sharing and teaching me the many things I needed to know to compete. Just listening to him everyday enabled my fencing to improve dramatically daily. There are many hurdles in fencing to overcome and Wang helped me to overcome these hurdles with amazing speed. Within one year of fencing under Wang, I earned a C rating in a New York saber open. In the second year, I took 2nd place at Div. II North American Cup and earned a B rating. That same year, I earned a spot on the Taiwan national team.

After making the Taiwan National Team, my competition arena became international. I competed in many senior World Cups and World Championships. At every level of competition from local, national, and international, Wang was able to help me improve and get better. I would have to say that I owe all my fencing to Wang. Without his great coaching and guidance, none of my fencing accomplishments would have been possible.

Howard Huang



Sabre Fencing Coach

I spent three evenings working with Wang Yung, along side one of my own students, learning skills both as a fencer and a coach of saber.  The attention to detail in his footwork was and is game changing.  As I have taught my own students his techniques, I have watched them improve in the sport of fencing.  


Dennis Christensen
Saber Fencing Coach
Fencing Center of Alaska

Canadian Fencer
Two times MVP
Univ of Western Ontario

Throughout my five years of fencing, Wang has been a great coach and mentor to me. Although I lived most of my fencing career outside the
US in Canada, Wang has been able to give me expert advice and training to help improve my fencing techniques at an incredible rate.

Wang has always been dedicated to his students. Even after a hard day at work, he would always come to the salle to teach fencing. This
dedication translated into my rapid growth as a fencer. Within one year of fencing, I gained my C USFA rating - a feat that is difficult
to accomplish alone. During the same year, I qualified to be on the British Columbia fencing team to compete at the Canada Winter Games in
Whitehorse. Although my fencing career with Wang was growing at an alarming rate, I had to move further away to Ontario for University.
However, my contact with Wang never stopped. Even in Ontario, my fencing career and learning did not stop. Wang still emails me with
expert fencing advice and updates on new fencing rules and regulations. From this, I have won many medals in local Ontario
circuit tournaments including two bronze medals for my university at the Ontario University Athletics Championships.

Wang has definitely been more than a coach to me. He has acted as a mentor and an inspiration to my fencing. Even after many months
without his coaching, his expert teaching has been ingrained into my fencing. Unlike many coaches who are outdated with fencing news and
technique, Wang always stays up to date with teaching techniques and competing. It is always a fun challenge and learning experience to
fence Wang.

Colin Lee

President of Fencing Club

Metro Tacoma Fencing Club doesn’t have a USFCA trained and certified maestro and we needed help in realizing our coaching development program goals. Maitre Wang Yung provided two coaching development seminars that significantly helped in our endeavors. We certified four Prevot Coaches and a Moniteur through his guidance. Maitre Yung brings his world class competitive Sabre experience to seminars that are designed to take fencers to higher levels regardless of weapon. Our club highly recommends Maitre Wang Yung as an articulate, experienced, knowledgeable and talented coach. 


Martin Tetloff
Prevot d’Epee, Moniteur in Foil and Sabre
USFCA
President of Metro Tacoma Fencing Club

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