So you’ve never seen fencing before, you’ve just found out about foil fencing, and you want to know how it’s scored.
Category: Newbies
Stuff for first time fencers
Basic Foil Actions with Examples
To a laymen, I think that fencing can seem really daunting. If you look up glossaries of terms, such as the one on wikipedia you’ll find a list of dozens of terms in French, Italian and English pertaining to various ways fencers can move, or their equipment or the rules of the sport etc. Fencer’s tend to really like cryptic terminology and technical definitions – I think it makes us feel smart! But really, it’s not all that complicated.