Fencing is the skill of using three types of weapons: foil, sabre and épée. The sport is fast and athletic; fencers battle in a dance wherein the score is electronically detected. Fencing itself is divided into Olympic fencing, the sport fencing seen in modern Olympic games, Classical fencing, which approaches fencing more as a martial art, and Historical fencing, which is a type of historical martial arts reconstruction established on surviving texts and traditions.
