Why is it that the modern sport of fencing, uses European thin swords?

Early thin swords had a double-sided edge, the entire blade, more like a narrow rider's sword. During this period, the thin sword body had many cross sections, even round or oval. After that, the thin sword, which was fully specialized as a thrusting weapon, was more like an all-steel short spear. The main tactical attack maneuver of the fine sword was the thrust, which tended to be longer than a normal sword in order to increase the range of the attack. Reducing the lethality of dueling swords is naturally a ****ty need for all of us. This is most evident in the smaller swords that began to flourish in place of the swift sword afterward.

Modern fencing has its roots in the ancient European dueling with swords. The tradition of dueling in Europe has a long history, and there was even a judicial duel. The so-called judicial duel is when two people go to court and the judge doesn't know who is right, so he lets the two people fight on their own. Before that, many European duels were fought in armor with a shield, so after armor was phased out, everyone stopped fighting in armor and the fine bayonet was born.

The European fine stabbing sword, represented by the swift sword, was weaker in killing than the Chinese sword or its ancestor, the saber, which was a requirement for dueling. A duel doesn't have to kill the opponent, it just has to be won. There was no guarantee that he would always win the duel, so it was obviously excellent that he lost and survived. The average thin longsword was at least a meter long, and the long thin longswords were even 1.3 meters long. According to fencing schools, the proper length of a thin sword was the length of the user's foot to the navel, or the length at which the user could easily unsheathe it. Like in modern fencing, taller people with longer hands and legs have a natural advantage in using thin swords. The blade of a thin sword is highly variable.

Fencing, a combat sport that has been passed down to the present day, became popular among European aristocrats as a symbol of upper-class status and dispute resolution. With the outstanding performance of the Chinese fencing team at the Olympics and the gradual development of the above concepts in China, the fencing culture, which combines glory, elegance and wisdom, has been favored by more and more people. From niche to mass, fencing is moving towards popularization.