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2. Épée - Wikipedia

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   Electric épée fencing: Diego Confalonieri (left) and Fabian Kauter in the final of the Trophée Monal While the modern sport of fencing has three weapons — foil, épée, and sabre, each a separate event — the épée is the only one in which the entire body is the valid target area (the others are restricted to varying areas above the waist).

3. Fencing - Wikipedia

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   Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. [1] The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also saber); each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules. Most competitive fencers specialise in one discipline.

4. Glossary of fencing - Wikipedia

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   The fencing area, 14 metres (46 ft) long and between 1.5 and 2 metres (4.9 and 6.6 ft) wide. Going off the side of the strip with one foot or both halts the fencing action and gets a penalty of the loss of 1 metre (3.3 ft). The last 2 metres (6.6 ft) on each end are hash-marked, to warn a fencer before they back off the end of the strip.

5. Sabre (fencing) - Wikipedia

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   The sabre (US English: saber, both pronounced / ˈ s eɪ b ər /) is one of the three disciplines of modern fencing. [1] The sabre weapon is for thrusting and cutting with both the cutting edge and the back of the blade [2] (unlike the other modern fencing weapons, the épée and foil, where a touch is scored only using the point of the blade). [2]

6. Foil (fencing) - Wikipedia

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   Arianna Errigo (L) competes against Carolin Golubytskyi (R) in the final of the women's foil event, 2013 World Fencing Championships. A foil is one of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. It is a flexible sword of total length 110 cm (43 in) or under, rectangular in cross section, weighing under 500 g (18 oz), with a blunt tip. [1]

7. Destreza - Wikipedia

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   Carranza's work represents a break from an older tradition of fencing, the so-called esgrima vulgar or esgrima común ('vulgar or common fencing'). That older tradition, with roots in medieval times, was represented by the works of authors such as Jaime Pons [ es ; ca ] (1474), Pedro de la Torre (1474) and Francisco Román (1532).

8. Forte (fencing) - Wikipedia

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   Italian fencing master Ridolfo Capo Ferro defined the forte as the blade from the hilt to the middle. From the middle to the top is known as the debole. For the debole only, the edges are labeled true and false, the former being the lower edge when the sword is held horizontally. The flats of the sword are not named. [1]

9. Achille Marozzo - Wikipedia

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   An introduction to the use of single sword and sword and buckler, according to the work of Achille Marozzo by Phil Marshall and Oliver Barker of The School of the Sword. An introduction to the play of two swords, one in each hand, according to the work of Achille Marozzo by Phil Marshall and Oliver Barker of The School of the Sword.