Competitive Saber Fencing Scoring Equipment

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Hi! I'm Mike Elder, head coach and general manager for the Miami Fencing Club; that's www.miamifencingclub.com. We meet weekday evenings at South Miami and on Saturday afternoons at Miami Day College in Kendall. Fencing provides an excellent low impact aerobic workout for athletes from age 8 to 80 and it is an Olympic sport. It is the oldest of the Olympic sports in the Western Martial Art. Jose is going to demonstrate here the competition equipment that we use. Because of the speed of the game, the fencing has to be scored electronically. The action is too fast to be seen by the naked eye. So what Jose is putting on here is an electrically conducted jacket. It is called a lame and it covers the valid target area. This is a metallic material that conducts electricity. Also it has a mask which is also electrically conducted because the target area for savor also includes the head. So in a second he'll put this on his head and you can see how that works. There's the savor. What the savor is doing now is it plugs into this plug, up his sleeves, comes all the way around here and comes out his back here. That will plug into the scoring equipment. The other end of the plug goes into the savor itself. There you go. When the savor touches the other opponents, valid target area, there is an electrical signal sent. We will show you how that works next.

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