Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
I was a member of a collegiate fencing club. We had about 8 members in a school of ~650. There were two distinct classes of people that participated: Those that thought "Oh cool, swords" and those that were a step above that and actually interested in a more serious approach. The person that ran our club would specifically pair off people based on the type of interest that they had and lead the groups differently. We had one or two people from the casual side move to the more serious side and another couple of casual folks dropped out due to waning interest. The waning interest generally happened because people wanted to be swashbucklers and sword-fighters rather than traditional fencers....
Full answer by Jacob G: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/915 (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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