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 Salle Mauro Fencing Academy    is a fencing academy that is located in Houston, Texas on Bellaire Boulevard. Its exact address is 4007 Bellaire Blvd Ste EE Houston, Texas 77025.

History
The club founder Mauro Hamza is originally from Cairo, Egypt, and established Salle Mauro in August, 1999 in Houston. He served as Fencing Program Coordinator at Rice University between 1998 to 2014 and he spent three years serving the Southwest fencing community as the volunteer Chairman of the Gulf Coast Division. Mauro was the Egyptian Olympic coach for the men’s and women’s foil teams at the Athens Olympics in 2004. He was the United States Fencing Association Men’s Foil National Coach 2009-2010. He then was the USA Foil Director for Men’s and Women’s National teams in 2010-2011. In 2009, December 26 was declared “Mauro Hamza Day” by the Houston mayor, Bill White, in recognition of his development of the sport of fencing in Houston. The club has many achievements such as creating national, international, and world champions. Names of some of these people are Thomas Dudey, Michael Dudey, Steve Gerberman, and Ben Parkins.

Classes
Salle Mauro have a wide variety of classes for people of all ages to join. The following are the names of these classes: Musketeer, Cavalier, Adult, Advanced. In the musketeer class, you must be 3 to 5 years old to be legible to join. For the cavalier class, you must be 5 to 12 years old to join. You must be 13 years or older to join the adult class. The advanced class is for those whose goals are to become champions and are willing to practice hard enough to reach their goals. The coaches at the club develop your skills starting from the beginner classes to the advanced class and for that reason the club has separated these classes by age to better enhance the fencers fencing ability.

Camps
The club is well known for hosting strong, intensive summer camps featuring world and olympic champions such as Valerio Aspromonte, Andrea Baldini, Carolina Erba, Simone Vanni, Enzo Lefort, Lei Sheng, and many more. The club usually hosts one camp during the winter break, and two camps during the summer. There is a wide variety of fencers around the world who are well known champions who come to the club to improve fencers fencing as well as let the fencers have a fun time at the camps. The usual routine of these camps is that they last 5 days and start from between 9 A.M. or 10 A.M. and end at 3 P.M. or 4 P.M. with a lunch break in between. These training camps have a mix of warmup, exercises, drills, and fencing within them.

Achievements
Salle Mauro have developed many world, national, regional, and international champions along the years. One of them was Michael Dudey, who was an NCAA champion for Princeton in 2013 as well as being a junior team world champion during the same year. Ben Parkins and Colin Sutter were NCAA champions in 2010. Ben was also a 3 time U.S. national champion. Thomas Dudey was a junior olympic champion as well as a member of the U.S. Cadet Team. Steve Gerberman was ranked number 1 in cadet and junior and won both the cadet and junior events in the Junior Olympics. He was a member of the U.S. national team as well for several years. There were several other fencers who shared similar results of the listed people above. Many of the fencers in the club have gone to many great colleges such as Princeton, Stanford, Notre Dame, and Ohio State and since the fencers have achieved great results, it helped them for when they applied for colleges.