Cantabria Fencing Training Camp

 

Fencing bouts take place on insulated metallic tracks and weapons are plugged electrically to a scoreboard by means of an extensible cable (body cord).

 

A signal is transmitted to the scoreboard by the electrical cables when one of the weapons touches the body of the opponent fencer. The scoreboard is placed midway by the side of the fencing track, in front of where the referee stands. There is one light for each fencer on the scoreboard, one green, one red.

 

The red light represents the fencer on the left; the green light represents the fencer on the right. When some of them turn on, counts as a touch to the opponent.