The modern version of the dueling rapier, the foil is perhaps the best known fencing apparatus. The teaching weapon for the other swords, it has a flexible blade and is used chiefly for thrusting. The ...

He had to be, after I watched him send his 10-year-old daughter Cece out to face a larger child with a sword. They're foils, to be exact. Cece said she had been fencing for two-and-a-half years to ...

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