Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my friends, fencing coaches Bendegúz Serra and Attila Horváth, triathlon competitor Gyula Chrobák, and medical doctors Dr. Zoltán Fazekas, Dr. Csaba Hegedűs and Dr. Szabolcs Kálmán for reading the manuscript, and helping improve these notes with their observations. Furthermore, I am grateful to those fencers whose data have been used for the illustrative figures, for giving their consent to present their training- and competition data.