Alcohol – adrenaline – and swords. What could go wrong? “I’m gonna stab people,” said Chris Bartlett of Durango prior to the I Challenge Ye to A Duel competition Wednesday at the Starlight Lounge. The ...

En garde, ready, fence!” says Mindy Parks, president of the Eugene Fencers Club’s board of directors, as she referees a match ...

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 ...

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 ...