The modern version of the dueling rapier, the foil is perhaps the best known fencing apparatus. The teaching weapon for the ...

PAWTUCKET — Rapier dueling is more like the swashbuckling antics of “The Three Musketeers” than the fast, subtle and formal sport of Olympic fencing. Rapier fighters move in any direction and can ...

Andrews Park in Vacaville is already home to a medieval-themed playground complete with a concrete dragon and a pirate ship, so it may be easy to imagine a group of swordfighters and artisans ...

FENCING has been an Olympic event since the games were revived in the late 19th century. So it is fitting that visitors travelling to London for the 2012 games should find a fine show that focuses on ...