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B1 中級 英語 5:33 Educational

Fencing, explained

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Most sports in the olympics are really pretty easy to watch.

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You cross a finish line, hit a target, jump the farthest, score a point.

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But fencing is different.

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It’s so incredibly fast and precise, that even after watching several matches, for the

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average viewer, it’s hard to understand exactly how a point was scored.

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This is footage from 3 different bouts at the 2015 world championships.

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On the surface, they look pretty similar.

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But what you’re looking at is in fact 3 very different events.

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There’s the foil, epee, and sabre.

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They each have their own weapon and set of rules and their roots can be traced back centuries.

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My only cultural reference for fencing comes from the 1998 remake of the Parent Trap, so

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I decided to travel 2 blocks from our NYC office to a veritable fencing oasis in the

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middle of Time Square, the Manhattan Fencing center.

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It’s produced 3 Olympians just this year.

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That’s me, struggling.

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That’s my very patient coach for the day, Brando Messinese.

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