Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.
Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I'm also good at fencing.
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
Fencing and shooting kind of came naturally. From the start, I knew that I had it in me.
I went to a performing arts high school, we learned Shakespeare, I did 'Fences.' When you train, you can do anything.
Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.
Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
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