An age-old discipline

From the early beginnings of ‘hits’ to the electric jacket, fencing is a sword-fighting art that remains timeless. The advent of the use of firearms on the battlefields, shifted the use of “cold-steel” weapons to the sporting arena; thereby crossing over from an offensive- to a more defensive function - that of protecting and shielding oneself from the opponent - as described in the origins of the terminology “fencing”.