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Fencing weapons
On-guard positions and target areas in fencing.
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Key People

Nedo Nadi: Following in Father’s Footsteps
Italian fencer
Aldo Nadi
Italian fencer
Champion Olympic fencer Aladár Gerevich
Aladár Gerevich
Hungarian fencer
Giorgio Santelli.
Giorgio Santelli
Italian fencing master
Nadi brothers
Italian fencers
Luigi Barbasetti.
Luigi Barbasetti
Italian fencing master
A pioneering fencer
Peter Westbrook
American fencer
Alfred Hutton, c. 1903.
Alfred Hutton
English fencing master