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At the first modern Olympic Games in the summer of 1896, nine sports encompassing 43 events were played. Of those original nine, only five have appeared at every Summer Olympics since. One of those sports is fencing.
Fencing is split up into three different events based on the weapon used. There's the foil, epee, and sabre. They each have their own set of rules, and their roots can be traced back centuries.
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I took a fencing class at my college once.
I got my ass handed to me every time.
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I think one of the major barriers to watching fencing on TV, honestly, is that it's just really hard to see the blades. They're really thin and we're watching them from a distance through a camera, all while looking at body, arm, and feet to try to determine who has the attack.
Seriously, I think that at highest levels, blades should light up like lightsabers. That's not even my inner fanboy talking, I genuinely think that would make the sport easier to follow.
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not to brag but i fenced my whole backyard
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Fencing looks classy af. I really want to try it out someday :)
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I learned fencing from Icarly lmao. Freddies mom was a beast
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So my coach teaches Fencing theory at a nearby high school. He brought his midterms for all of us fencers with at least 4 years of experience to grade. I was grading one that just killed me. "If the basic forward movement is an advance, what is the basic backward movement?" the kid's answer? "Disadvance."
"What the three main sports played in the olypmpics?" Poker, foil, and sabre.
I had fun last night/
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Here after Bhavani Devi created history by representing India for the first time in Olympics in the 'Sabre' format of fencing. Hope more people will be educated about the sport and attracted to it.
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I still don't know anything about fencing
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Ah, the good old days when we used swords to settle disputes
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I've been fencing for around 3 years and I can attest that it is by far the most fun I've ever had.
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Came here interested to know about fencing after my current fav kdrama twenty-five twenty-one
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If you want to follow a saber match, don't watch the blades. Watch the feet; because of how easy it is to hit an opponent with a saber weapon all the action is actually going on in the footwork. PS Epee rules.
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What I find most confusing is that I can't find where the actual fence is.
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Great video! As a long-time saber fencer, it is amazing to see fencing becoming more and more mainstream. I remember four years ago it was so obscure... the rare broadcast of an event was primitive, with underfunded video technology and amateur announcers. Just today, I was chatting with a PE teacher at my high school (who has zero experience with fencing) about the mens foil team event at the Olympics, and she was talking about how exciting it was to watch. I couldn't have imagined that conversation ever happening a year ago. The same goes for this video... fencing has always been sort of a hidden gem, and now people are starting to discover it by the masses. Thanks for the exposure to the sport, Vox!
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me: wow fencing looks so cool i want to try it
also me: disappoint oh i've forgotten that i have a really bad eyesight
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not to brag, but i was a god at fencing in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
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I've been fencing for almost 7 years now, so I guess I didn't realize that fencing could be so confusing to viewers.
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im a (mainly Sabre) fencer, and seeing a Vox vid abt my sport is super exciting! i love how thorough you are, you bring my sport into the light!
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I'm writing a book and one of my main characters do fencing, so I'm trying to learn about it. This was really helpful
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@ItsMrSmurf
7 years ago
Thanks Vox. As a fencer (foil) it's nice to see our underrepresented sport explored a little by the wider public.
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