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About Fencing

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.

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Fencing has been described as a physical game of chess.

Not only is fencing great physical exercise that improves reflexes, reactions, strength and all round fitness, but it also gives participants a cognitive work out improving;

  • the use of strategy
  • fast thinking
  • concentration
  • an adaptable approach
  • complex decision making
  • problem analysis
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Brief fencing history of a technique, of a science, an art, a sport and (or) a method of education.

fencing olympic posterThe first traces of fencing

Whether we consider fencing as an art of enjoyment or as a science of arms, a method of education or a sport, its wealth emerges from its study. Wealth of a thousand year- old history, of a large technical skill and a laudatory record of achievements, wealth of champions and masters who force the respect, and above all wealth of values that fencing knew how to generate and that it still tries to inculcate today through its practice.

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