In fact, a 2012 study found that fencing was among the Olympic sports, summer or winter, least likely to injure athletes. It’s important to note that modern fencing, though of course descended from actual sword-fighting, is very safe, as the weapons are not sharp and one wears protective clothing. Fencers Club, put it, “It’s an excellent workout, but you don’t notice you’re working out because someone is attacking you with a sword.” As Ilya Lobanenkov, a coach at Silver Spring’s D.C. I’m all for the kind of exercise where I don’t realize at the time how hard I’m exerting myself, and fencing is great for that. (Note to self: Make sure wife reads previous sentence.) My wife had been urging me to make fencing the next stop in my intermittent tour of offbeat-but-awesome sports, and, not for the first time, I’m glad I listened to her. Plyometrics are all the rage these days, but who wants to jump on a box for an hour? Recently I checked out an activity that promised to have me gasping from all the explosive movements I was making - while giving my brain an equally good workout. Fencers face off as a class gets underway at D.C.
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