To speak to your first point, what do you suggest? If you have none that's fine, but I'm genuinely curious.
To speak to your edit, my friends and I were speaking with one of the best fencers in the state at a fencing tournament about a month ago, and one of my friends (who's practically my coach) was talking about how he teaches some of the fencers in our club. Going off of that, the top fencer said something along the lines of:
It's the basis of any mentorship really, and it's applicable to this scenario as well.