Also European fencing. Term used by martial artists, particularly students of jkd to distinguish the European version of fencing, with epee, foil, and sabre, from the Japanese version known both as Japanese Fencing and Kendo.

Bruce Lee borrowed heavily from Western Fencing concepts and principles of advance and retreat, the small phasic bent knee position (or SPBK), and the idea of progressive indirect attack.

Additionally, it was fencing that inspired the interception part of the way of the intercepting fist. Bruce and his brother, who was taking fencing lessons and had taught Bruce what he learned, would play a chi sao like game of 'hand fencing' using a single forward arm, practicing the attacks and deflections of fencing just using the one hand. Bruce then looked more into fencing and deemed the best techiques as those which both deflected and attacked on the same motion, intercepting the attack with an attack. He applied these theories to the punches of western boxing and the defensive moves of wing chun. The result is what comprises the core of true JKD training, the art of interception.