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Increasing in popularity, the world of sports fencing is growing, creating a larger and stronger US fencing community. Your connection to such community in Central Ohio is here. We are the Central Ohio Division of USA Fencing and serve 8 fencing clubs with over 250 active members.

Fencing is a lifelong sport and is considered to be one of the safest competitive sports. Anyone can start as a young child to learn how to fence and continue on through a lifetime, even after one's retirement age.

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Did you know??

Here are some sports fencing facts.

Fencing is one of five original sports of the modern Olympic Games, first held over a century ago in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
There are three weapons in Olympic fencing: foil, epee, and sabre. Foil is a light thrusting weapon. The valid target is torso, which originally served as training to aim the sword at the human body's vital targets. Double touches, where fencers hit each other at the same time, do not count. Epee is a heavy thrusting weapon. The target covers the entire body, and evolved from the swords used in traditional blood dueling. Double touches do count for both fencers. Sabre is a light cutting and thrusting weapon. The valid target is upper body (above waist) except back of the head and hands, and is derived from the use of sabres in cavalry combat. As with the foil, double touches do not count.
The only things that moves faster than fencing swords in the Olmpics are projectiles used in shooting sports and they are not moved by human energy.

What's New?

The Columbus Division is now The Central Ohio Division (COD) of USA Fencing
The updated COD Code of Regulations was adopted on August 1, 2023, detailing the name, operation, and scope of the Central Ohio Division
The updated COD Operation Guide was adopted on August 1, 2023, defining the COD procedures for elections, tournament sanctioning, scheduling, and other division practices

Email us at centralohiodivisionusafencing@gmail.com