Fencing is too fast to fall into either category. It's often very hard to see who hit whom, even with the lights, and even harder to work out why. A well filmed fencing match will have high speed cameras at three or four angles following the movement. It's very worth watching, but very hard for me to imagine watching it with the untrained eye now.
This appears to be a foil match, I don't know where or when.
(from here)
