A real fencing match is an incredible mixture of fight and ballet. The fencers use their foils with such mastery and skill while they attack, defend, thrust and evade. If don’t take into consideration associations with Princess and noble knight, then fencing is considered to be active and exciting kind of sports.
Among the necessary qualities which good fencer should possess the main are the following: speed, coordination, mobility, confidence, and mental subtlety.
Successful fencer has to be able to make attack and meet a thrust within some seconds, that’s why not only physical strength is important but the intellect as well is of high importance. The concentration of fencer must be really firm. The main principles of this kind of sports are fair play and honor, which remained from past times. Also this sport teaches how to be polite and considerate with other people. It is not only the sport, it is also an attitude to the life. Many fencers can prove it.
Fencing was one of four kinds of sports which were included in the Olympic Games since 1896. When fencing stopped to be warfare, several branches of fencing appeared: fencing as art and fencing as sport.
Fencing is such kind of sports which are available for people of any age.
While for most kinds of sports strength or speed is necessary, in fencing you decide how you would like to win – with speed or with craft.
It is always good to some interesting hobby to write in the resume, which can cause interest. But fencing goes far from it, it teaches to keep discipline, to respect people, to be independent to keep principles of fair play and be honest.
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