Sabre Dance

The most modern of the three sport weapons, the sabre is the sport incarnation of the cavalry weapon. It scores with both the 'edge' (for practical reasons there is no edge on a sport sabre, any cutting action is deemed to have scored) and the point.

The sport of sabre, like foil, arose from the need to practice swordsmanship against the time it would be needed in earnest on the battlefield and like foil it has its conventions of limited target and 'right of way' (see the section on foil for a fuller explanation of right of way.

The sabre target is restricted to the upper body including the head and arms but excluding the legs below the fold of the hips. Traditionally this is said to represent the target that could safely be hit without endangering the horse upon which your opponent sat but more pragmatically it represents that target that is most likely to kill or seriously incapacitate him.

Sabre is just taking off at the club, so why not come along and give this very exciting weapon a try?