Re: Fencing- what weapon is the most fun?
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This is kind of off topic, but I know nothing about fencing. How often do people get hurt? How bad?
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Broken blades, as Anacardo said, are the real danger. Aside from that, consider the following:
In sabre, you are wearing the standard knickers, shirt, fencing jacket, glove, and mask. If you are going electric (as in the video, with both fencers hooked up to have lights go off whenever blade contact is made), then you are additionally wearing a lame. This is another jacket on top of your jacket, and hence it would be EXTREMELY hard to get hurt by an opponent's slash with all that padding. Of course if you have a lazy on guard with the guard pointed down, that leaves the side of your hand exposed, and that can be bad news when you try to parry there.
In epee, there are no lames. You also aren't being slashed at, you're being stabbed at with a thick piece of metal. If you run into it going very fast and at the right angle, it may hurt and cause a very deep-level bruise.
Fencing injuries were never even a consideration for me. I had seen what my brother and his friends would get from football, sometimes not even coming out of the game with various ailments, and this isn't even comparable.
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