Sofie takes on sword fighting! Watch her learn the art and face a professional sword fighter in the ultimate test. From ...

These fighters aren’t using sharp-edged swords. For training, sparring and tournament fighting, they have “weapons” with blunt edges and tips because nobody’s trying to hurt anyone.

And the controlled conflict of a sword fight, he says, brings about a kind of clarity. "We have to encounter each other as fully human — we have to respect each other," he says.