The modern version of the dueling rapier, the foil is perhaps the best known fencing apparatus. The teaching weapon for the other swords, it has a flexible blade and is used chiefly for thrusting. The ...

Foil is the basis of modern fencing and ... Parry: The defensive action by a fencer to block the opponent’s blade. Piste: A metal fencing strip. Each of the three fencing swords are used to ...

Barely 16 years old, Catherine “Cat” Bouwkamp is the top-ranked female wheelchair fencer in the United States in all three blades of fencing: foil, epee, and sabre. She is currently the only ...

If it wasn’t for the masked men in white uniforms lunging to hit each other with long, silver blades, the fencing crowd ... bronze medal in the men’s individual foil in Paris. His passion may be ...