Choosing Fencing Electrical Equipment

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Summary: Electrical fencing has much required equipment; learn what to look for in fencing equipment in this free video on fencing gear.

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Choosing Fencing Electrical Equipment

Electric equipment. Once you're ready to own your own electric equipment, there are a couple pieces that you're going to need. One of them we already talked about. That is the Lame. It goes over your jacket, it conducts electricity, and helps score your touches. Also, you're going to need a body chord. A body chord plugs into your weapon, goes through your jacket, and plugs conveniently into one of these chords while you're fencing. So, if you want to have your own electric equipment to use while you're practicing for electrics, that's great. If you want to compete competitively, you're going to need all of this stuff. Let me show you an electric sword. This happens to be an electric epee. You can see at the top there's a button that is depressed when a score is touched--when a touch is scored--when target area is touched. And also in the back you have this place in which you will plug this so that you will be all hooked up and ready to score accurately and electronically. So, the electric epees and foils are a little more expensive than the dry ones. That's one reason I suggest that you begin with a dry weapon, a non-electric weapon, also because blades do break. You want to practice with a dry weapon when you're not practicing for the purpose of practicing electric. One of these will run you about a hundred to two hundred dollars. It's pretty much the same between foils and epees. And, of course, you can spend a little bit more on the higher end if you would like to. So those are the primary electric pieces. You do need other pieces while you're fencing. These are the ones that are specifically electric.