Priority weapons and the Circle of Attacks

Fencing at the 2012 Summer OlympicsBy Robin Catling.

Teaching foil and sabre is never as easy as you’d like it to be, chiefly because in modern sports fencing, we have the challenge of ‘fencing time’ and the rules which make foil and sabre ‘priority weapons’.

I took up most of a group lesson with the following examination of the priority weapons and the circle of attacks. …

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