Take a fencing class for the first time and you could become hooked — that’s what happened to Doreen Lowther, above, of the Village of Poinciana, when she tried the sport. She’s sure you will be hooked, too, if you give fencing a chance. “Where else can you hit somebody with a weapon and still be friends?” Lowther founded The Villages Fencing Club several years ago. The group fences foil, sabre and epee, and uses traditional judged scoring and electric scoring equipment. For foil fencers, the valid target is the torso, but not the arms and legs.

Source: Daily Sun October 12, 2017 12:00 UTC