Quick Guide to Olympic Fencing

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Everything you need to know about Olympic Fencing.
Épée, Foil and Sabre, Fencing has been competed in the Olympic programme since Athens 1896, the first Games of the modern era.
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I think you mean a life... *saber?*
I will be leaving now...

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Jack Gardel i found my role model

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Afiqah Pika you really don't want to use me as a role model xD

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[@lashageorgian838]

I love this sport.

[@samsignorelli]

Not bad...a few inaccuracies.
1) Epee is NOT the longest weapon. Both epee and foil have a max blade length (from the front face of the tip to the front face of the guard) of 90cm. For sabre it's 88cm. Epee IS the heaviest, but it's only by about 500 grams.
2) Sabre target does not include the hands (specifically, target in the arms starts from the wrist bones).
3) Foil target includes the lower half of the mask bib.

[@nazmiazhari9538]

The sabre's weapon arm counts as a target starting from the fingers

[@samsignorelli]

@@nazmiazhari9538 Uhhh...no. It was never from the fingers, and the back of the weapon hand was removed as target years ago.
Rule M.33 section 1 reads in part: "The conductive material, which can be removable or fixed, must cover all of the gauntlet of the glove down to below the external cubital styloid (small prominent bone of the wrist), both when the fencer is in the on-guard position and when the sword arm is straight."
This applies to both arms.
Freeze the vid at 0:32 and look at Montano (the fencer on the right)...you'll see that the lame' -- the conductive material on the cuff of his glove and his scoring jacket (ALSO called a lame') -- does NOT extend past his wrist. A hit to his hand would not even register on the box (it'd hurt, tho....have taken that shot myself).
I've been a sabre fencer, an equipment vendor, and an armorer for almost three decades...I KNOW the proper target area for my weapon.

[@thedog5k]

music at the start sounds like that maroon 5 song

[@samsignorelli]

1:33....yellow card to left for covering, although I don't know if that was the rule back when that pic was taken,

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my favorite game

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0:04 Romania. And Romania won gold at fencing 🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴

[@samsignorelli]

Romania's only taken a gold in fencing at teh O Games 4 times, they've been beaten in that column by (in order) Italy, France, Hungary, the Soviet Union, Russia, West Germany, Germany, Cuba, Poland, and China.

[@teslaturtle3845]

I got teached to call it a weapon, not a sword

[@amitjaiswal5043]

I would like to make career in fencing .....

[@MrThomazSatiro]

should have mentioned Aladár Gerevich

[@anoldtimer]

I'm very good with a sword

[@henrymob2651]

Fikri Nesimi cool, but irrelevant. Fencing blades are not swords. They’re blades, it’s like calling a taco a quesadilla

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The Koreans are just frightening.

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Aim of the game as many doubles as possible

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No.

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Indian ko bhi fencing Mai dhyan Dena chahiye request to Indian

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