Weapons are foil, epee and sabre.
Fencing foil or epee you only can touche with the point, in sabre touches with the whole blade score. In epee fencing the fencers who touches first scores while in foil and sabre the right to score is at the fencer who first starts an attack. His oponents has to defend before he himself can score. Distance of the fencers The distance of the fencers depends on the length of their arm. In epee and sabre fencing the distance is so far that one fencers can just touch the ellbow of his opponent when sitting straight and stretching his arm while his opponent stretches his arm in an angle of 90 .