Question: What is the most common version of fencing today?
About the article "Fencing", section "Abstract".

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Fencing is the activity of fighting with swords.
The most common version of fencing today, also called olympic fencing or competitive fencing, is divided into three weapon categories: foil, sabre and épée.
Classical fencing uses the same three weapons, but approaches fencing as a martial art.
Competitive fencing is one of five sports which has been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games, the other four being Athletics, Cycling, Swimming, and Gymnastics.
A foil is a type of weapon used in fencing.
It is the most common weapon in terms of usage in competition. 
The CSA Steaua București Fencing section was created in 1947 and is one of the most successful fencing teams in Romania. 
The lunge is the fundamental footwork technique used with all three fencing weapons: foil, épée and sabre.
It is common to all contemporary fencing styles.
The lunge is executed by kicking forward with the front foot, and pushing the body forward with the back leg.
It can be used in combination with different blade work to deliver an offensive action such as an attack.
The lunge is one of the most basic and most common types offensive footwork. 
In the United States (and elsewhere), renewed interest in Western martial arts (beginning in the 1990s) has led some groups—often peer-led—to attempt to study classical fencing (e.g.
from books or instructional videos) without the guidance of a classically-trained instructor, creating further variation in the classical fencing community.
These groups, in an effort to become more historically authentic, sometimes shift their focus to older, pre-19th-century weapons and techniques—i.e.
historical fencing.
Today, classical fencing clubs (and classical fencing instructors and masters) can be found in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Because there is no agreement as to the exact rules of classical fencing and because competition is de-emphasized, what competitions exist are generally local or regional in nature, with the rules depending upon where the tournament is held.
However, there are a number of generalizations that unify contemporary classical fencing.
First of these is the expression that "classical fencing is a frank encounter between two opponents" where the object is to touch the other fencer without being touched.
Even though the "weapons" are blunt, the fencers treat them as though they were in fact sharp.
Classical fencing still uses the same weapons that have been used in fencing since the early 19th century—namely, the standard (non-electric) foil, standard épée (equipped with a pointe d'arret), and sabre (including both blunted dueling sabres and modern standard sporting sabres).
Olympic and classical fencing differ in the use of weapon grips for foil and épée.
In sport fencing, the most used handle for foil and épée is the pistol grip, with the French retaining significant use in épée.
Classical fencing prohibits the pistol grip, and uses the Italian and French grips primarily, and occasionally the Spanish grip.
Safety equipment for classical fencing is essentially the same as used in Olympic fencing.
It includes: A fencing mask, typically made of a wire mesh; A white fencing jacket, which may be canvas duck, stretch nylon, or some other puncture-resistant material; and A fencing glove, which protects the hand and overlaps the sleeve of the jacket.
Fencers also usually wear knickers (in British English called breeches) of material similar to the jacket, with knee-high white socks, or long pants and athletic shoes.
There should be no exposed flesh.
In addition, female fencers wear rigid breast protection in the form of cups or a chestplate (as do some male fencers, albeit a flat chestplate in that case).
Male fencers often wear an athletic cup.
Fencers of both genders wear an underarm protector called a plastron worn on the side of the fencer facing the opponent.
This provides additional protection in the event of a broken blade penetrating the fencing jacket.