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No, foil's for pussies. And morons.
Check the instructor/judge - he's got all his gear on - and that might be a body cord dangling from his right hand. It's hard to tell and might be something completely different, but that's what it looks like to me. If it were about safety, why are they wearing breast plates?
We didn't bother to teach foil (although we did have a few sabre fencers). That didn't change after I sold the club. And I would never teach foil to the elderly since the rules aren't exactly intuitive.
Then again, these are Australians, and we all know how crazy THOSE folks are (I'm looking at you, dlish).
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