Foil, épée, sabre: three weapons, three audiences, and expensive equipment the club almost always lends. Say so on the home page.
A limited number of pistes, three weapons that do not mix, loaned equipment to track, and a regional competition calendar.
Junior foil and adult épée share neither timetable nor coaching. Each group has its piste and its capacity.
Mask, jacket, weapon: what the club lends is assigned to a member and comes back at the end of the season. Without tracking, the inventory melts away.
Regional dates go onto the calendar; the call-up goes to the fencers concerned, with the time and venue.
A single registration covering the year, the licence and the equipment loan — one total price rather than three separate lines.
A group per weapon and age
Loaned equipment, tracked
Competitions and call-ups
Season membership, licence included
The searches come from families and are curious: "children's fencing" plus the town, "fencing club", "try fencing".
Fencing carries an image of being expensive and closed. Saying that equipment is lent and a taster session is available removes both obstacles at once.
Explain the difference between the three weapons in three sentences. Nobody knows it, yet it is the first choice to make.
Equipment is expensive and the club pays up front. Knowing who has what, and getting it back at the end of the season, avoids an annual buyout.
The license covers insurance and opens competitions; its cost is announced with the contribution.
Le contrôle d'honorabilité s'applique à tout encadrant de mineurs.
A fencing club website is judged in thirty seconds. The visitor is after three things: where, when, how much. The rest — the club’s history, its honours, the club newsletter — comes afterwards, and serves to reassure. If you offer foil for children and épée for adults, that has to be readable in a timetable, not in a PDF to download.
A full page for each group beats a single page that mixes everything together. It ranks on its own search, and it saves you the calls asking what time the session starts. If you run a non-profit club, the guide to what content to publish on an association website sets out what to publish and how often.
The search is local and cautious. People type the name of the sport followed by the town, sometimes “fencing for children”, sometimes the name of a neighbourhood. Many discover this Olympic sport watching a final on television, then look for somewhere to take it up near them. Your site needs to be there at that moment, not three weeks later.
Two things count: a properly filled-in business listing (address, times, photos of the salle, reviews) and pages that describe your sport in your own words. Generic copy about the benefits of exercise ranks for nothing. A page explaining the basic rules, who the club takes and what a first lesson actually feels like does.
Every one of these is fixed by a site you update yourself, in a few minutes, without going through an agency. Combat sports clubs run into exactly the same sticking points: look at what is in place for a judo club or a karate club, the logic of groups and capacities is the same.
The right journey comes down to three steps. The visitor reads the page for the weapon that interests them, books a taster on a session that is genuinely free, then signs up for the season and pays online. In between, you send nothing by hand: the booking system confirms, reminds, and puts people on the waiting list when the piste is full.
A season membership always calls for the same documents: a medical certificate where one is required, parental consent, insurance, and a licence with the French fencing federation to register the fencer and open up competitions. The background check applies to anyone coaching minors, and a professional licence is required to teach for payment. All of it is collected in one place, at sign-up, rather than through one reminder after another.
We design a bespoke site, thought through and search-optimised for your activity: one page per weapon, per group and per audience, an online schedule where your sessions are bookable around the clock, limited places with a waiting list and automated reminders. Online payment through Stripe takes the money at booking, and automated emails handle the confirmations, the reminders and your back-to-season campaigns: you share a piece of information once and it goes out to the people it concerns.
Behind the site you get bespoke software and a mobile app for iOS and Android carrying the club’s brand — handy for fencers and volunteers alike. The time you used to spend keeping lists goes back to teaching and to the piste. You can talk to an expert to scope your project, or start your free 14-day trial, with no card required: if you would rather see the result before deciding, get in touch and we will start from your real sessions.
Yes — one group per weapon and age, with its slot and its capacity.
By attaching it to the member's record: you know who holds what, and what is still to come back.
Yes, by group or by selection list.
However you decide — what matters is that the price shown is the total price.
Yes. The site is built for you, then you change the times, the prices, the copy and the news from a simple interface. No technical skill is needed to publish a competition result or open a new session.
With a news area that keeps a diary of the season: league tables, selections, a medal brought home from a competition. That is the content families read to judge how serious the coaching team is, and it also feeds your visibility on local searches.
No. A social network shows your club life, but it carries neither your times, nor your sign-ups, nor your search ranking. The two go together: the site catches the Google searches and collects the memberships, while the social network brings your current members back to it.
Booking closes at the capacity you have set and switches to a waiting list. As soon as a place frees up, the people on the list are told automatically, in order. That way you keep a record of the requests instead of losing them, and you know when to open an extra group.