Fencing has developed from duelling as a way to settle disputes often ending with the fatal wounding of one of the duellists, to a sport and way of maintaining a healthy and functioning body.
Fencing is a fight between two people using swords as weapons. There are three styles of fencing, sabre, foil and epee.
It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth century that it transitioned into a sport. It was most actively practiced in France, Italy, Austria-Hungary and Germany and developed rapidly.





The first traces of fencing