Very interesting, I love how it all rests more around the rules of engagement for who should apologize first, and is intertwined with some "but if you don't wan

Very interesting, I love how it all rests more around the rules of engagement for who should apologize first, and is intertwined with some "but if you don't wanna just shoot at each other" When I was fencing I learned the foil, and our master of arms was giving us some context behind it. The big difference between foil and sabre on one side, and épée on the other, is that the former has lots of rules of engagement (there's a whole system of time, distance, valid zones, and priorities and ways to recover the priority), whereas the later is very straight forward (you touch, you score). The main reason that is apparently all these rules was that it was a discipline training you for duel, and the training was targeted at avoiding "making two widows", thus making sure that people are trained into not just killing each other and going in only when it is "safe" to do so (ie when you won't get stab at the same time).