10 Best Fencing Academies in Singapore

Fencing in Singapore has grown from a niche pursuit into a busy scene of dedicated clubs, from sabre specialists to all-weapon academies. This shortlist gathers ten established fencing academies and clubs, each verified against its own website, spanning beginner classes for young children, adult introductions and competitive squads. Treat it as a starting point to compare on weapon, coaching, location and programme rather than a strict ranking.

Z Fencing says it was founded in 1993 as Singapore's first private fencing academy, and now runs its flagship Z Elite Fencers Academy at SAFRA Toa Payoh, a 6,000-plus square foot hall the club describes as having ten fencing pistes. Programmes span children from around age four and adult beginners through to core, developmental and elite squads, with the club stating that equipment is provided for its adult introductory classes. It claims to have produced fencers competing at national, South-east Asian, Asian and world level.

Toa Payoh
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Blade Club is a long-running club that teaches the three Olympic weapons, foil, epee and sabre, from beginner classes up to competitive pathways, and its own site says it is marking around its twentieth year. It was founded by Henry Koh, whom the club describes as a former national fencer, and trains from a Bukit Timah Road headquarters plus a second venue in the Paya Lebar area. Blade Club says its fencers have competed for Singapore at the World and Asian Championships and the SEA Games.

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Absolute Fencing Club trains all three weapons, foil, epee and sabre, from its studio at ORTO @ Westway on West Coast Highway. It sets out a structured progression the club labels from 'Jumpstart' for beginners through intermediate and advanced tiers up to an 'ABF Pro Team' for elite competitors, alongside private lessons. Group classes cater to both children and adults.

West Coast
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SG Academy of Fencing describes itself as Singapore's first epee fencing club, established in 2016 by what it calls the country's top men's and women's national epeeists, and it now also runs a foil programme. Based at yo:HA @ Tampines, it offers classes, holiday camps and a competitive track, and says it has produced fencers who medal at age-group, Cadet, Junior and Senior levels locally and internationally. Coaching is led by a team the club describes as current and former national athletes.

Tampines
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DSFencing Club is an epee-focused club in Telok Blangah whose founders, it says, are themselves ex-national epee fencers who design and teach the curriculum. It runs trials, beginner classes for all ages, private coaching and sparring, and states that it lends fencing gear free until members are ready to buy their own. The club notes it is an approved partner of the People's Association's OnePA scheme.

Telok Blangah
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Fencing Masters, in Ubi, teaches foil, sabre and epee under one roof, with a youth academy for children starting from foil, adult 'Fencing for Fitness' classes, private lessons and competitive squad training. The club says all gear is provided for first sessions and that its coaches are NROC-registered; it describes head coach Jeffrey Lopez as having trained national squad members and podium finishers over 31 years. It states it has operated since 1995.

Ubi
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Asgard Fencing Club calls itself Singapore's premier sabre fencing club and, since what it says was its 2014 founding, has built a development pathway aimed at taking novices from age seven through to competition. Head coach David Chan leads the programme, and the club says its fencers include multiple World and Asian Championship medallists across age groups from under-10 upward. Training is sabre-focused rather than spread across all three weapons.

Tagore Lane
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Han Fencing is a sabre club in Sungei Kadut that pitches itself at everyone from first-time beginners to globally competing athletes, with a strong youth-development focus. Its coaching claims are unusually specific: the club describes head coach Han Joo Yeol as an assistant coach to a team-silver squad at the 2024 Paris Olympics, a head coach to a team-bronze squad at Tokyo 2020 and an FIE referee, and assistant coach Seung Hee Jen as a 2017 Asian Championships gold medallist. Those credentials are as stated by the club.

Sungei Kadut
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Champions' Forge, next to Mountbatten MRT, centres on foil while also running epee and sabre competitive programmes, with classes from kids' foil and foundational levels up to developmental and adult groups, plus one-to-one and duet formats. Founder and head coach Zhang Zhenggang leads the club, which says it provides free equipment in all its classes until members are ready to invest in their own gear. School enrichment and corporate sessions are offered too.

Mountbatten
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Legends Fencing Club sits in the CBD at Downtown Gallery on Shenton Way and leans towards adult fencers, running trial sessions, a foundation programme, intermediate classes, sparring and social leagues for all levels from novice to elite. The club says it provides all necessary fencing equipment and that it was founded by former world-class fencers and national champions. Its central location is pitched at professionals training around work.

Shenton Way
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