Miles Chamley-Watson: Olympic Fencer and Model

Suiting Up with Paul Rabil

Paul Rabil

Sports, Business

5.0 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Miles Chamley-Watson (MCW) was born in London in 1989. He's taken a non-traditional route to a Top 10 world ranking fencer, now Team USA member, and competitor in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. He's 6'5, 185 lbs, an African British-American, with dyed blonde hair and tattoos head-to-toe. Definitely not your stereotypical fencer. That's what makes MCW stand out to us. He's pushing an archaic sport to all new heights, leveraging mass sponsorship deals with Nike, Red Bull, GoPro, and now approaching Japanese-based brands, where fencing is considered a mainstream sport. MCW has vision. He's grown his social media presence by 10x over the past 18 months, far beyond his fencing peers (follow him on instagram @MChamleyWatson). His duality? MCW is also a model, represented by IMG Modeling Agency. He's done global campaigns and has been featured on a 300 foot Times Square Billboard. We discuss all of the aforementioned, including time management, training schedules, and the complex of winning and losing amidst promotional growth.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:05.0	What's up everybody? Welcome to Suiting up with me, Paul Ravel.
0:10.0	We've got a special guest in our New York City studios here on the upper west side.
0:13.7	His name is Miles Chamley Watson. Who's Miles? He's a four-time NCAA and two-time
0:20.0	national champion fencer. Two-time World Cup champion, fourth at the 2012 Olympics, and more recently bronze at the 2016s.
0:28.4	He's the first American to have won the individual senior world championships.
0:32.9	He's currently number nine in the world and number three in the USA.
0:36.5	Stereotypically he doesn't fit into what we size up as your typical fencer.
0:41.7	He could have played receiver in the NFL. And we're going to dive into other topics such as his career, fencing and modeling. Yes, he is a very successful model. The way he trains, which is sometimes up to eight hours a day, and the way he processes psychology around that type of training.
0:58.0	We go into personal branding, dive specifically under the fencing helmet, looking at the right platforms that he uses and
1:04.8	leveraging his network which I found out includes a lot of a list celebrities like
1:09.3	Questlove Adriana Lima Acon Rick, certainly has a ton of flare, all of which we talk about from
1:16.0	his blonde hair through all his tattoos.
1:19.0	We learn about how he structures sponsorships, where he's getting his revenue,
1:23.3	and what a fencing purse looks like.
1:25.4	Like many athlete to athlete conversations
1:27.2	that I have, you can trust that there's no guard up,
1:29.4	which is great.
1:30.2	And I'm really pleased with how Open miles was and candid around conversations with mental
1:34.7	psychie, how he takes on losses, and what makes him happy.
1:39.3	Enjoy the show. We often find out a lot about someone by the apps on their home screen.
1:51.0	We're hitting that hundreds of times a day and we often prioritize
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