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Notes
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- A competition epee may weigh as little as 350g or less.
- Mention electronics: Hits to guard automatically disallowed. Hits to floor sometimes disallowed automatically, otherwise floor spotters may be requested.
- No corps-a-corps rule (as in foil): shoulder-crossing rule instead.
- Hand and wrist are common targets.
- Timings for hits and doubles are decreed by the FIE.
- Epee is the only weapon to have regulations on tip travel: Gauges available from fencing suppliers. Weapons usually tested before and after each fight in high grade competitions.
- Competition arrangement: Pools of 5 to 7, fence everyone in the pool to 5 hits. Then seed according to (1)wins, (2)hit difference, and (3)hits scored. Then direct elimination, fights to 15, timed 3 minutes, 1 minute break, 3 minutes, 1 break, 3 minutes.
- Used in Modern Pentathlon as a one-hit bout. Each pentathlete fences every other pentathlete to 1 hit. Double hits ignored for win/loss.
In pentathlon, doubles count as a loss for both participants.
epee weights
I've made some changes; there's no such thing as a 750g epee, or a 150g epee either. I think the two came from googling on "epee weight"; an *epee weight* is 750g. An epee does not weigh that much. The distinction is subtle, but important.
A Leon Paul epee *blade* weighs 150g, not the whole epee.
No epee is as light as a light foil.
I removed the link to the Leon Paul page, since it's dead. I can't find a current page from LP saying what their lightest epees weigh.
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