At LA Comic Con, Anthony reflects on a journey that began with fencing at just 17 or 18 years old, eventually taking him to three national competitions and earning him the title of champion in 1972.
What started as a sport opened doors to unexpected adventures, from Shakespeare to Shinkendo and martial arts, taking him all over the world along the way.
He describes fencing as a physical game of chess, where strategy, timing and awareness are everything — and where the point of the blade is quite literally your life. But beyond competition, these skills become invaluable tools that translate into other disciplines and, eventually, into performance itself.
Years of training allow you to move beyond carefully choreographed sequences and instead respond instinctively to your partner's energy, creating something spontaneous and alive.
A reminder that sometimes the things we begin as young people take us on adventures we could never have imagined — and stay with us for a lifetime.