Fencing Book Reviews Fencing Book Reviews. These are some book reviews I wrote for my club newsletter at various times.
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This is the latest of a series of start-up books produced by the author, who apparently picks a sport, learns how to do it, then write a book for beginners by a beginner. This is its main strength as a beginners introduction, it contains the information most likely to be of use to a would-be fencer in a format they can understand without a coach to translate. It goes through the equipment, safety, basic moves and the three weapons, and has quite a good little glossary and history in the back. I was quite impressed by the way it handled the fuzzier topics of fencing distance, right of way and general tactics, and it has a lot of very good explanatory photos. To get around the fact that blades are often hard to make out in photos, they placed black and white sheathes over them.