A View From Mary’s Corner

Florida’s Premier Olympic Fencing Facility

Tampa Fencing Academy

Fencing with Illya - Aug 09

Illya, Marko, Sofija Richie, and Michela

Illya, Sean, and Claudia

Illya and Lewis

One on one

Stab the wall or Richie, wall or Richie, decisions, decisions!

Richie is such a big target

Arm up Richie!

Lunge!

Yes, Yes, very good!

It all begins with footwork

Fanatic fleche’s

Dr. Michela LaRocca

Michela1@tampabay.rr.com

813-792-8501

CONTACT US

Head Coach Boyko Krastevitch or

Rayna Krastevitch

Krastevitch_B@hotmail.com

(727) 481- 7393

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Illya and Michela fence while Boyko instructs the youngsters

Boyko and Richie coaching our future champions- Aug 09

Kentucky SYC, Dec 11 - 13 ‘09

Michael Hoffman scores a point in his Y12 pool

Michael Debellis attacks in Y12 pool

Sean fleche’s his way to victory in the Y12 Final

Y12 Gold for Sean and a Coach’s Medal for Boyko

Richard fights off a fleche’ during a Y14 DE

Sean takes 5th in Y14

Boyko asks Sean “Where’s mine?”

Katie Santamaria works to find her Y12 groove, & flies thru the DE round

Posing with the Y12 Jewelry

Holding a piece of slugging history

Trying to hit the Big League balls

Michael helps Sean celebrate at dinner

Sean is on target

 during Y14 pools

Richard Ramdohr in

 the Y14 pools

Michael DeBellis counterattacks in Y14

Michael Hoffman makes his point in Y14

Michael Hoffman in the Y14 DE round

Fancy dancing didn’t stop Michael from winning this DE and his E rating

Sean battles his way to 5th place in Y14

Milan and Wyatt dual in the first Y14 DE round

Meredith Cook in the Y12 pools, love the socks!

This double touch doesn’t Sofija keep from winning

Delaney wins her Y12 DE, is it the socks?

Katie battles in the Y12 semifinal, what a great comeback!

Sofija duels in

 the Y12 final

Rockin’ in Y12, Sofija (2nd),  Katie (3rd), and Delaney (8th)

Wild socks can’t keep Sofija from winning in Y14

More wild socks as Sofija battles her way to the Y14 quarterfinal

Sofija takes 7th in Y14

Chris Parcel is a

Boyko-neer!

Chris fighting his

 way thru Y10

Things that are OK:

- Boyko-neers, the more the merrier! Bring ‘em on!

- Jewelry, lots of jewelry. Show me the medals…

- The Tampa Bay Beer Sausage Polka Club:  beer, music, food, what else do you want?

- People who are nice. You can never have too many nice people.

- Photos to put on this website. If you are not sure if they will be ok (moral, legal, etc.), pretend you’re showing them to your Auntie Josephine, wait, make that my Auntie. 

 

Things that are NOT OK:

- Zombies….no way, no how, never. Make sure you practice your list.

- Smelly fencing bags. Some of the ones here could be considered a WMD.

- Tight, stretchy pants. If you are an underwear model, ok, otherwise no, no, NO!

- Rude people. If you want to be rude, go outside, preferably in North Dakota.

Here is the latest photo shoot:

Capitol Clash SYC, Annandale VA, Jan 29-31, 2010

Michael H. and Dominick duel in the Y14 DE

Dominick battles M. Revich in the Y14 semifinal on the way to gold.

Rayna watches the fencing action

TFA dominate Y12 Men’s Epee with silver, bronze and a fifth place

Maybe” an inch? Try 8! Where’s the dogsled?

Sean builds a mini-me snowman with his brother Brandon

Michael H. chills while waiting to fence Y14

Here’s a view from the sidelines as our fencers battled kids from around the country, each other, and the freezing cold. Nannook say’s “Don’t you eat that yellow snow!”