For thousands of years, cultures around the globe used swords as a primary means of protection. Shortswords, longswords, ...

MIDLAND, Texas — The clanging of swords is what most people hear when they enter the basement of the Momentum Bank Tower in Downtown Midland. That's because a fencing school is in session. "The Sword ...

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 ...

A conversation on martial arts usually doesn’t invoke thoughts of Scotland, Germany and Italy, but a club in New Orleans with a focus on martial arts originating in Europe is changing that notion. The ...

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.

A sword is the draw. Each participant carries a 48- to 52-inch saber into the former Holy Family Roman Catholic Church in East Deer for Friday Night Fights where, two by two, they enter a ring wearing ...

Sitting in his specialized wheelchair and armed with a three-foot-long fencing sword, Noah Hanssen, 22, of Ellicott City, Md., lunged at his opponent. With a few quick strokes, the two athletes ...

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. Read more here. On Sunday in Paris, with a flick of the wrist and an exultant scream, a 30-year-old medical student named Lee Kiefer made history when ...