fencing, man. fencing.

[ID: a sabre fencer lunging and hitting her opponent in preparation.]

[ID: an epee fencer crouching and hitting her opponent’s hand.]

[ID: two photos of sabre fencers at an event. In the first photo, they’re clustered around a computer monitor. In the second, they’re walking off to find their strips.]

[ID: two photos of a fencing tournament, held in a second-story fieldhouse. Half of the indoor field is overlaid with white flooring and metal fencing strips.]

[ID: four photos of a foilists parrying her opponent and then making a big attack as her opponent tries to jump away.]

[ID: an epee fencer parrying his opponent. His jacket is coming up, revealing his shirt.]

[ID: several photos of fencing lames and a mask with colored ink drawings on them. One lame, for instance has a red panda; another has a squid.]

[ID: a whiteboard with the foil attack/parry areas delineated. A stick figure is drawn holding a foil, with a thought bubble that reads “I’m dead inside”]

[ID: two people in fencing whites and masks, playing the violin.]

[ID: a foil fencer with both hands in the air, looking up with her mask on, celebrating a touch.]

[ID: an epee fencer hitting her opponent with a counterattack as her opponent fleches.]

[ID: a stylized drawing of two fencers engaging, probably with foils.]

[ID: several men in old-fashioned fencing uniform, holding foils or masks.]

[ID: a sabre fencer lunging as her opponent parries five.]

[ID: a foilist crouched, his head in his hands, as his opponent walks away.]

[ID: a foil fencer walking on strip, framed by metal crossbeams.]

[ID: an epee fencer fleching/falling at his opponent.]