Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-10390252-20141113092911

Fencing and most oriental sword-arts are very different. Fencing uses stabbing moves whilst most oriental swords are single-edge cutting weapons and so use blade-edge rather than point attacks.

FWIW, the bodice of Weiss's battle costume looks like it's a fencing stab-proof vest.