In a groundbreaking live selling event, a fencing center captivated audiences and successfully sold over $5 million in masks by showcasing sword fighting athletes. But what strategies and narratives ...

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 ...

Greater New Haven, Fairfield County, and Eastern Connecticut Conference are the hubs of a growing scholastic sport which ...

He had to be, after I watched him send his 10-year-old daughter Cece out to face a larger child with a sword. They're foils, to be exact. Cece said she had been fencing for two-and-a-half years to ...

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The young athlete, who is slated to compete on Monday, said he got into fencing because it reminded him of sword fighting. “My favorite part about fencing is the feeling that you get when you ...

Wheelchair fencing has been a Summer Paralympic event since 1960, but this will be the first time at these games that blind fencers touch swords to showcase the sport’s inclusivity and adaptability.

The sides of the swords’ blades are dull, and a spring-loaded button is affixed over the point, which also tallies the score. Some kids, Nguyen says, find fencing attractive because they appreciate a ...

About a dozen youngsters took up a sword Saturday afternoon for a Fencing Fest in the Harris Community Center.

"He is not bad," Dickinson quipped of Jolyot. Dickinson got into swords and fencing when he was 14, after a metalworking teacher at his boarding school in England - who also happened to teach ...