Dear readers, I am one of you, I decided to put myself on the other side and to tell you how I was a storyteller the story of this wonderful adventure.
Would you like to give us some, can I call you "participants"?
Yes, I know, I'm a bit cunning, I call you participants as if you had already decided to be among us, but do not worry I know you are hard heads and that will serve to tell you all right to be able to convince you. I will try to do my best.
In this first blog article I will tell you how it all began. As you know the beautiful adventures do not take place by chance but this has had as starting point a spark an idea born in a gloomy afternoon, between a workout and the other, which had nothing to do with all this. Three of our four "heroes" were in the gym and as always Cat, Andrea Candiani the teacher, was giving lessons to Andrea while Marco waited for his moment. In that expectation a parent told him: "but why do not you do a camp? It would be so nice for my son to be able to live there for a week ".
Marco's first answer was, symptomatically, of his thought: "Madam knows, in Italy there are now more camps than boys, how could we give something more than what already exists?" The lady replied: " Well I learned to know you, you are not like the others, you are much more. "Marco at that time thanked the mother of the child but continued in his thoughts. After a few days of reflection, however, an idea came to mind; he understood that what the lady referred to was not exclusively a sporting discourse but concerned all their life. He decided to say yes to the request of the lady but on one condition, that it was a different Camp, innovative, young and precursor.
He took the phone, called Luigi Mazzone and asked him five questions: Do you want to redesign a new idea of sport? Would you like to start a project in which the high level is at the center but that the center is not occupied only by the high level itself but also by an important social mission? Do you want to teach kids that you can become champions while having respect, care and attention for others? Would you work in the first person by putting your scientific skills at stake on the subject of autism and inclusion? What do you think about organizing a summer camp in which the inclusion between normo-typical boys and autistic guys is at the center as well as the search for sporting victory? "Gigi's response was immediate and positive and Marco thought who else could marry this idea. The choice could only fall on Andrea Santarelli and Andrea Candiani, there are always those two types of first that were doing lessons. Both were enthusiastic right away to be able to spend a week with kids talking about fencing and more, playing with them but being able to teach values such as sacrifice, loyalty, passion and respect for others. From then on it was a continuous search. Search for ideas, places, professionals who could give us a hand and many other things that will make their camp unique and wonderful.
As Marco said at the first meeting: "I do not like making copies, my life is different from the others and if I do something, it must stand out. We bet on ourselves, always! "
Now you know the backstage of the beginning, but you still have to discover the beauty, in the next articles you will see how the CAMP-PLAY FENCING will be unmissable. Ah .. if you were wondering, I'm a sneak born .... Be careful…
