INSTRUCTOR

DEREK STEEL BARON

FREE SCHOLAR

Beginning  his journey at the University of Tennessee Fencing Club in 1999 with coach Dale Drinnon, with 15 years of competitive sports fencing as a national competitor and coach; Derek  has turned his interest towards a more historical system of swordplay. Derek is one (if not the first) of many “correspondent” students of the 1595. Club, and while living in the Pacific Northwest, far away from his brothers and sisters in Europe and beyond, has come to feel the entire 1595. Club as family and strives to extend that feeling to those who train with him in the USA.

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