Below are the most essential fencing techniques and strategies for new fencers. Fencing parries and attacks The two most central fencing techniques you’ll employ are attacks and parries.

Strolling through campus one afternoon, he came across a flier promoting the school’s fencing club. Although he had no background or experience with the sport, Holmgren was intrigued.

Some athletes get a rush from being on the field with a team. Others, like one-time Olympic medalist Miles Chamley-Watson, prefer one-on-one combat. Chamley-Watson describes what he loves about ...

Since the age of 7, her life has been a story of thrusts and parries, a ballet of grace and precision. At the Fencing Academy of Westchester, Sylvie is at home among the flashes of steel and the ...

Saber fencing is quick and aggressive ... The sabers smack against each other as Morehouse defends against Gunn with parries, the defensive move of blocking a hit with the saber.

Sullivan Newfield's Jake Hempe, right, parries the thrust by Ward Melville's Mke Desando in a boys foil match during the Suffolk boys and girls team and individual fencing championships on ...

We also covered several drills, practicing my advances and parries (blocks). I quickly learned that fencing requires a lot of mental stamina. You're constantly thinking about moves and counter ...