Fencing coach helping El Salvador youth steer clear of violence

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Ernesto Ramirez is not just training these youngsters to be talented fencers, he's trying to keep them away from violence and trouble.

Fencing is not just a sport for the children of San Pedro Masahuat, it’s also a means to become better people and to stay away from violence.

“This curbs violence, it certainly stops violence,” the 59-year-old former athlete and now government employee explains. After dedicating 35 years of his life to fencing, Ramirez believes the state needs to stop “training and employing” so many police and soldiers to tackle its issues and instead prepare sports coaches to work with children.Although he was a successful athlete — a former Central American champion in the foil discipline and sabre silver medalist in the Central American Games in the 1990s — Ramirez says there is something more important that sport brings to children.

Almost 10 years later, and having overcome many obstacles, the club has around 300 medals to show for its efforts. Ramirez has tried to teach his students the importance of concentration and discipline to “create conditions in which the other person does what I want him to, and that way I win the fight.”

 

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