The sabre is the only fencing weapon with a guard that fully covers the ... Scoring occurs with any part of the blade, including the edges. The epee (the French word for 'sword') is the descendant of ...

Fencing, the sport of sword fighting, is played on a 14-meter-long metal strip known as a piste. A competition between two fencers is called a bout. Fencers earn points in a bout by scoring ...