Shown is an épée fencer, with the valid target area ( the entire body ) in red.

While modern sport fencing has three weapons ( foil, épée, and sabre ), each a separate event, épée is the only one in which the entire body is the valid target area.

Since the entire body is a target, a successful épée fencer must be able to anticipate their opponent's moves and strike their opponent at the correct time.

Unlike the foil, where a fencer could only score off a hit which landed on the trunk of the opponent ’ s body, or the sabre where the upper torso and face mask count as scoring hits, in épée any part of the body is a legitimate hit.

This strategy is a feature of some traditional Chinese martial arts as wing chun, as well as an essential component of European épée fencing.

The small sword or smallsword ( also court sword, fr: épée de cour or dress sword ) is a light one-handed sword designed for thrusting which evolved out of the longer and heavier rapier of the late Renaissance.

Each weapon has a different tempo, and like épée, the tempo for foil is rather slow with sudden bursts of speed.

The épée () is the modern derivative of the dueling sword, the smallsword ( itself descended from the rapier, used in sport fencing ).

As a thrusting weapon the épée is similar to a foil ( compared to a sabre ), but has a stiffer blade that is V-shaped in cross-section called a fuller, has a larger bell guard, and is heavier.

A modern épée for use by adult fencers ( size 5 ) has a blade which measures 90 cm from the bell guard to the tip ; the maximum allowable mass is 770g, but most competition swords are much lighter, weighing 300g-450g.

In competitions a valid épée touch is scored if a fencer touches the opponent with enough force to depress the tip ; by rule, this is a minimum force of.

The tip of an épée comprises several parts including: the mushroom-shaped movable tip ; its housing or " barrel ", which is threaded to the blade ; a contact spring ; and a return spring.

Finally, an épée tip must allow a shim of 1. 5 mm to be inserted between the tip and the barrel, and when a 0. 5 mm shim is inserted and the tip depressed, it should not register a touch.

Each fencing weapon has a different tempo, and like foil, the tempo for épée is rather slow with sudden bursts of speed.

A difference between épée and foil versus sabre is that a corps-à-corps or " body-to-body " contact between fencers is not necessarily an offense, unless it is done with " brutality or violence "; however, corps-à-corps still results in an immediate " halt " to play.

He is best known for his two fantasy cycles-Księga całości ( The Book of Entirety ), which takes place in a world called Szerer, where intelligence, in addition to humans, was given also to cats and vultures, and Piekło i szpada ( Hell and épée ), dark fantasy set in an alternate 17th century, with demons and beings older than Satan himself.

An épée fencer must hit the target with the tip of the weapon.

The term rapier may have been originally a pejorative for the tuck ( estoc, stocco ) that appeared in the English lexicon via the French épée rapière which either compared the weapon to a rasp or file ; or rapier may be a corruption of " rasping sword " which referred to the rasping or grating sound the blade makes when it is unsheathed from its scabbard or when it comes into contact with another blade.

The Severi, in addition to being the second dynasty d ' épée, are also the first Roman dynasty to have been restored to the purple.

Classical fencing still uses the same weapons that have been used in fencing since the early 19th century — namely, the standard ( non-electric ) foil, standard épée ( with a rubber or plastic tip or equipped with a pointe d ' arret ), and sabre ( including both blunted dueling sabres and modern standard sporting sabres ).

Starting with épée in 1936, side-judges were replaced by an electrical scoring apparatus, with an audible tone and a red or green light indicating when a touch landed.

Other variants include chair fencing, one-hit épée ( one of the five events which constitute modern pentathlon ) and the various types of non-Olympic competitive fencing.

" Ce que l ' on sait ," he would repeat, " il faut le savoir l ' épée à la main.

The fencing discipline uses the épée.

)- long quadrangular épée spike for the bayonet of the Lebel Model 1886 rifle, the Épée-Baïonnette Modèle 1886, resulting in a rifle and bayonet with an overall length of six feet ( 1. 83 m ).

The concepts of " Stop hits & stop kicks ", and " Simultaneous parrying & punching ", borrowed from épée fencing's and Wing Chun's concepts of single fluid motions which attack while defending, comprise the defensive teachings of JKD.

The épée event for men was cancelled.

* écartelé, en I contre-écartelé au 1 d ' argent à la croix potencée d ' or cantonné de quatre croisettes de même, en 2 burelé d ' azur et d ' argent de dix pièces au lion de gueules armé lampassé et couronné d ' or brochant sur le tout, au 3 d ' or au lion de gueules armé lampassé et couronné d ' azur et au 4 d ' argent au lion de gueules armé lampassé et couronné d ' or en II grand-quartier parti au 1 de gueules au cheval effrayé d ' argent, au 2 fascé d ' or et de sable de huit pièces au cancrelin de sinople posée en bande brochant sur le tout et enté en pointe d ' argent à trois bouterolles au bout d ' épée faites en croissant de gueules malordonnées, en III grand-quartier parti en 1 d ' argent semé de billettes de sable au lion de même brochant sur le tout et en 2 de sable au lion d ' argent, en IV grand-quartier parti en 1 à cinq point d ' or équipolé à quatre points d ' azur au 2 d ' argent au chef de gueules ; sur le tout d ' argent, à la croix de gueules, cantonnée de quatre têtes de maures de sable, tortillées d ' argent ; sur le tout du tout de gueules à la croix d ' argent.

In 2004, the three men's team events and the women's épée were held.

Thus, in 2008, the women's foil and sabre events and men's épée were automatically selected.

The French épée de passot may also refer to a medieval single-handed sword optimized for thrusting.

The French épée bâtarde as well as the English bastard sword originates in the 15th or 16th century, originally in the general sense of " irregular sword, sword of uncertain origin ", but by the mid-16th century could refer to exceptionally large swords.

Further, members receive a ceremonial sword ( l ' épée ); however, clergymen do not receive swords.

After a solemn ceremony in Madrid, Charles was given the épée d ' or ( Sword of Gold ) by his father ; the sword had been given to Philip V of Spain by his grandfather Louis XIV of France before his departure to Spain in 1700.

Professionals competed in fencing and Albert Robert Ayat ( France ), who won the épée for amateurs and masters, was awarded a prize of 3000 francs.

There were individual and team events in both épée and sabre.

The épée team event saw Belgium take the gold medal and Great Britain and the Netherlands in second and third place respectively.

The small sword was the immediate predecessor of the French duelling sword ( from which the épée developed ) and its method of use — as typified in the works of such authors as Sieur de Liancour, Domenico Angelo, Monsieur J. Olivier, and Monsieur L ' Abbat — developed into the techniques of the French classical school of fencing.

As the wearing of swords fell out of fashion and the small sword evolved into the duelling sword ( forerunner of the modern épée ), the older hilts gave way to simpler grips such as the French grip and Italian grip.

Many other strange weapons ( such as the use of quarterstaff, épée, blowgun, and sling ) and unexpected fighting techniques are also featured.

On 29 August 1599 Wallenstein continued his education at the Protestant University of Altdorf near Nuremberg, Franconia, where he was often engaged in brawls and épée fights, leading to his imprisonment in town prison.