Sporting a beekeeper-style mask, a Kevlar vest and a saber, Tatiana Nazlymov takes to the strip at her family’s fencing club in Bethesda, Maryland. She’ll be one of three fencers from the D.C. area to ...

Fencing, the sport of sword fighting, is played on a 14-meter-long metal strip known as a piste. A competition between two fencers is called a bout. Fencers earn points in a bout by scoring touches on ...

The fight starts as a conventional match at a London fencing club but builds up into spectacular, over-the-top combat as the opponents leap through the building, swapping their modern épées for older, ...

Sharing your passions with friends can take a lot of different forms. Smashing your friends in the head with a mace is not typically how you would expect to share it, but with Historical Fencing of ...

Tucson Mall is home to many sounds — the shuffling of shopping bags, credit card readers beeping and ... the clanking of metal reminiscent of a medieval sword fight? Yes, you read that correctly.

When two kids find a couple of sticks, what’s the first thing they do? Pretend the sticks are swords and they are swashbuckling pirates or knights of old. The desire to whack sticks together seems so ...