Don't see the point in Basketball?
Football not cutting it for you?
Why not thrust yourself into a new activity?

Let's face it, you've put on a few pounds and the kids are running rings around you in the garden so it's time to get fit!

But the thought of traipsing around a football pitch with a lot of other wheezing "old men" or standing in a dance studio in a baggy tracksuit while a lithe young thing in skin tight lycra yells for you to 'go for the burn' is a lot less attractive than that next pint or that extra half bottle of wine so perhaps you'll start exercising "tomorrow..."

Fencing is excellent for the returner to sport. During the initial training period and at the "recreational" level there is no particular advantage in being short, tall, fast, strong or any other of the attributes that mark success in other sports.

Fencing does not have weight categories and while at the older end of the adult game (the veterans or "vets" start at 40) there are age divisions (class 1, 40-50, class 2, 51-60 etc), many fencers in the later years still compete in "open" competitons with fencers much younger than themselve. Fencing is a matter of discovering your opponents' weaknesses and then exploiting them; it is a matter of guile, something us old 'uns often have in abundance.

At club level, fencing is not even gender-specific (although men and women compete separately). Your class will most likely be mixed so who knows, perhaps the Romance of the Sword will translate to an actual romance?