Jay H
Senior HTF Member
I used to fence in high school but it has since changed so much since then. I was Foil but the Sabre folks get all the airtime. We didn't have electric sabre either which means all the scoring was done by two judges (plus the head judge) without the use of any electronics. Foil and Epee were electric for awhile because it's a thrust so it's easy to put a little plunger on the end of the blade and connect that like a sensor. Sabre is a slashing motion as well so it's I guess took more time to evolve.. Different target areas for each weapon. A lot of determining who gets the point as you will have multiple hits in many cases, especially with sabre is who has right of way unless it's a single hit... Foil is very precise with that..
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