Fencing Sabre from 1936 Olympics

From the documentary "olympia" by leni riefenstahl. The video shows epée and sabre fencing at the Berlim olympics

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Sports

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• fencing
• olympic
• olympics
• abre
• epee
• epée
• 1936
• berlim
• nazi
• leni
• riefenstahl

[rabit8mike]

i like the way they hold there ground. modern fencers dive in ending up both stabbed . so in theory if it was real this seems way better..

[Dilliboy63]

thats some great swordplay

[Ysbadadden]

It's epee first (you can see the bell guards and handles), then saber (you can hear the announcer say so. Plus it's not actual competitive fencing; it's a staged exhibition.

[elikohlenberg]

VadersEyesAreRed is absolutely right. It's epee and then sabre.

[CollingwoodsCreation]

@nemesisjoe i'd say sabre, look at the hand guard, as well as the slashing style.

[nemesisjoe]

This is actually without a doubt épée. The bell is the sound of the electric scoring system implemented in 1936; the first of its kind. Sabre did not have electric scoring until, surprisingly, 1988.

[Matadancer]

@rabit8mike yea well modern fencers have the lame technology where as in those times lame technology wasn't available so the right of way rule was really hard to apply.

[0mriphone0]

they look exacly the same

[saberwing505]

@kusarifundo the title says sabre.

[kusarifundo]

the handguards looked like they were sabers....so what is it?

[VadersEyesAreRed]

for all those debating whether this is epée or sabre, there are actually two different fights. The first one is epée, when the film focuses largely on the shadows rather than the fencers themselves; the second is Sabre.

[antleredzen]

The bad news it this is epee not sabre. The good news is this is footage used on a Rammstein video (stripped) :)