Miles Chamley-Watson

And those years are very important, right?

All your friends are there, your family's there.

So naturally moving from London to New York,

I was like, I don't want to be here.

So getting into trouble, getting kicked out of my first school, public school, then I got kicked out of my second school.

And then my mother met someone that was on the admissions program for private school, which they give tuition grants because we had money at the time.

But as a punishment, I had to pick up tennis fencing or badminton.

Because they're considered mental sports.

I was like, oh, whatever.

Sports are fun.

And then I was like, wait, I can pick up a sword and like stab you, right?

I was like, this is like the kid's dream.

And then immediately, that was my purpose.

Because you put the mask on and you feel like a superhero.

And I think that was the first time I realized like, okay, this is going to be my way out of whatever I'm kind of in.

And then I was very ADD, ADHD.

And then fencing kind of became my outer role.

And as I started to get better in fencing, I started to get better in school.

So that kind of ended up being a double-sided sword, which ended up being my job.

I kind of got very, very lucky in finding fencing because I don't know where I'd be now if I wasn't a professional fencer, which is a crazy thing to say, you know?