Talk:Fiora/@comment-130.63.42.79-20120229210824/@comment-88.113.63.126-20120301074029

Depends on the fencing style. Fencing generally is more about fanciful movement than it is efficient fighting, that's why it's more of an upper-class kind of a thing.

Sorry to nitpick, but it surely is not. It's all about efficiency, catching your opponent offguard havign their point somewhere away and ending the duel with one clean lunge. for example have one plate from Fabris : http://www.google.fi/imgres?q=fabris&um=1&hl=fi&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:fi:official&biw=1920&bih=928&tbm=isch&tbnid=hIaHAJGS-jhpLM:&imgrefurl=http://josephswetnam.wordpress.com/tag/fabris/&docid=DFX0RKvVSF8amM&imgurl=http://josephswetnam.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/fabris60.jpg&w=1524&h=1232&ei=fSdPT4GqG4WM4gTH45ixDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&dur=296&sig=115827696200833974656&page=1&tbnh=135&tbnw=167&start=0&ndsp=57&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0&tx=96&ty=96&vpx=1126&vpy=225&hovh=143&hovw=177 Nothing fanciful or elegant here. That stuff is nightmarishly painful on the fencer to even wait in a guard for extended time.