Well, I have been collecting for about 10 years now and I can tell you right now that anything you'll ever find at a fair or oddities shop is nothing more than a nice piece of shiny to look at. Anything using the word "stainless" Is also right out. What you want is high carbon steel. Something that will bend and flex and be able to snap right back to it's original form. I suggest checking out swordbuyersguide.com, they can provide all the info. You need and provide prices as well. I suggest windlass or Darksword for historical European pieces, for Katana Hanwei seems to have The most quality.
The three categories of fencing are:SabreEpeeFoil
Foil.
The Renaissance fencing sword was a narrowed bladed sword called a 'Rapier'.
to own a sword.
The sword fighter was practicing his fencing techniques.
Whoever invented the sword.
Any type of Fencing sword that are available
Sword, Armyng sword, (Arming sword), grete sword (grete, meaning great, ie, big), Fawchoun. (Falchion, curving sword), Tuck (Estoc, a thrusting sword). The word sword comes from the Old English sweord, cognate to swert, Old Norse sverð, from a Proto-Indo-European root *swer- "to wound, to cut". several other names could be used. but generally just "sword" on its own.
its like sword fighting with lots of pads and a sword with metal ball on the end
They are called Fencers.
The best fencing weapon would usually be the sword.
The weapon used for training in the fencing duel era was called the foil (fleur). It is still used as one of the 3 weapons for fencing today, although it has never historically been a real weapon used for combat. There isn't a training sword in fencing. Originally the foil (see above) before the sport fencing - like we know it now - exsisted. Now you choose a weapon (like the foil) and train with that. So in fencing there is no training sword.