According to the Royal Spanish Academy, it defines the word fencing as the art of fencing. It is a word of Germanic origin "skirmjan" that means "to protect", adopted by the Italian as "scrima". Fencing is an Olympic and combat sport, which consists of two people facing each other with knives, either a sword, saber or foil, where each one tries to touch the other with said weapon and each individual has protective elements like a mask and a special suit.
In today's fencing, three basic weapons are used; the foil that is light and flexible, used to achieve headdresses by charging with its blunt tip, its blade is rectangular in cross section, and the place of taque between floretists is the torso; This was a weapon that originated in the seventeenth century for light sword fighting training. Then we have the sword, which is also a lunge weapon but has a larger hand guard, is heavier, and its blade is triangular; This weapon derives from the small French sword. And finally the saber that has a curved protector with a “T” shaped blade in cross section, the points are made by ramming with the tip; This derives from the weapon used by cavalry soldiers. All these weapons made of tempered steel
Fencing is a sport with complex and fast movements, which during combat takes place a series of exchanges of lunges and feints with which each combatant must study his opponent, waiting for his carelessness and weaknesses for the next attack. This is a sport of speed, coordination and intelligence; ye are subject to a series of fairly strict rules, with the aim that the combat proceeds according to what would happen in one with real weapons.
