The Revised Foil

This book is an excellent resource for beginning and intermediate fencers, with lots of illustrations and thorough glossary of fencing terms. Although one cannot learn fencing from a book, The Revised Foil is a great aid in both learning and teaching fencing. The advanced fencer will also find that it is an excellent reference work. Perhaps most importantly, foil teachers will find this book a great help -- especially if they are interested in developing a group instruction program.

When Selberg revised his book in 1993, he saw what was happening in the world of competitive fencing and correctly described the divergence of electrical fencing and standard fencing (what many people now describe as classical fencing) into what are now two entirely separate games. His writing is targeted primarily at the "standard" foilist, but there is plenty for the aspiring electrical fencer as well.