Fencing may be a sport but a sport is, generally speaking, meant to be fun. So my questions kind of glide over the sports aspect and address the deadly serious sport of yore. I would imagine if one were redressing a wrong or punishing an insult there wouldn't be a lot of high-fiving.

When I was a kid - a girl among three brothers about my age - in addition to boxing for fun, we did a lot of physical fighting when we were mad. We had one rule: No hitting in the face. (I suspect that it had more to do with the fact that a telltale black eye or bloody nose would be a tipoff to our parents than it had to do with gentlemanliness or code of honor.)

That is the kind of thing I'm asking about: Was there a code of honor that dictated one's behavior during a fight. I am assuiming so - but then, those movies may have misled me.