About fencing

Most people think that fencing is a sport of 2 people using stick to pok each other, and it is very easy,but acutally they are wrong,today i am going to tell you more about fencing!

Modern Fencing is a sport derived from the practices of dueling and swordsmanship, and is one of only four sports to have been featured in every Summer Olympics program since their revival in 1896.
A fencer may choose to specialize in any one (or more) of the three available weapons/disciplines: foil, épée, and sabre. Each weapon is very nearly its own sport, and each is characterized by a somewhat different set of rules and nuiances.

• FOIL
  Basis: 18th century smallsword
  Type: thrusting only
  Max. weight: 0.500 kg
  Max. length: 110 cm
  - Blade: 90 cm
  - Hilt: 20 cm
  Valid Target Area: torso/trunk only



• The foil fencers' ("foilists") goal is to strike the torso of an opponent with the tip of the weapon with a force of at least 0.500 kg, while also taking the conventions of "right of way" (see below) into account.
  Due to its derivation from a blunted ("foiled") training weapon, the foil is usually (but not always) the first weapon introduced to aspiring fencers.
  

• EPEE



• Basis: 16th/17th century dueling sword
  Type: thrusting only
  Max. weight: 0.750 kg
  Max. length: 110 cm
  - Blade: 90 cm
  - Hilt: 20 cm
  Target Area: entirety of the body



• The épée fencers' ("épéeists") goal is to strike the body of an opponent with the tip of the weapon with a force of at least 0.750 kg.
  The conventions of "right of way" are not (explicitly) enforced during épée bouts.
  "Épée" (pronounced "eh-pay") is the French word for "sword".

• SABRE(I USE SABRE!!!)
• Basis: 19th/20th century army officers' cavalry/dueling sword
  Type: cut-and-thrust
  Max. weight: 0.500 kg
  Max. length: 105 cm
  - Blade: 88 cm
  - Hilt: 17 cm
  Target Area: body above the waist, excluding the hands



• The sabre fencers' ("sabreurs") goal is to make contact with the upper body of an opponent with either the tip (with a thrust) or the edges (with a cutting motion) of the weapon, while also taking the conventions of "right of way" (see below) into account.
  

Sabre and Foil consider of "Right of way" I am going to tell more about it now...

Right of way
The Conventions of Priority, commonly known as "Right of Way" (ROW), are a set of guidelines that describes how actions within fencing relate to one another. ROW was originally designed to both reward initiative and encourage a theoretical "best practice" (by discouraging one from employing high-risk, low-return tactics).

For example, if one fencer launches an attack against their opponent (and, in taking the initiative, earns ROW), the opponent is obliged to make a "parry" (a defensive action where a fencer uses one's own weapon to block or deflect that of an attacking opponent), that, if successful, causes the attacker would lose ROW. A successful parry also earns the opponent the opportunity to subsequently claim ROW by immediately initiating a "riposte" (an attack that follows a parry). If the opponent makes the immediate riposte, and the original attacker makes an immediate continuation their original attack (called a "remise"), and both strike one another, only the riposte counts (even if the remise can be seen to land first and, in foil, even if the riposte lands outside of the valid target area).

If, instead of parrying, the opponent launches a "counterattack" (an attack launched into an oncoming initial attack), and both strike one another, only the initial attack counts (even if the counterattack can be seen to land first and, in foil, even if the initial attack lands outside of the valid target area), since failing to defend oneself against an oncoming attack (and launching a "suicidal" counterattack into said attack) is an example of bad practice.

Benefits of fencing
Fencing, despite it's the use of weapons, is a very safe sport, with the odds of sustaining anything more than a short-lived bruise (provided proper equipment is worn and behavior kept civil) being extremely low. The sport provides excellent cardiovascular exercise, as there is a great deal of emphasis placed on rapid, precise footwork as well as blade movement. Fencers can also often see some general improvement in hand-eye coordination, balance, overall speed, reaction times, concentration, and discipline as time progresses.

OK I hope after you read this blog post, you will learn more about fencing! Please leave a comment! Thank you!