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Strong, thin, whip-like, the fencing foil is the weapon of choice for almost all movies where you will see sword fighting.

Let’s face it, the fencing foil is just a whole lot easier to handle than, say, a great big long sword - the kind that takes two hands just to heave off the ground!

With a foil, you can ‘float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’ as opposed to hacking and chopping with a long sword - much less work.

I would rather have a long sword if I were, say, to go into a big battle - a foil just would not (pardon the pun!) cut it.