The institution’s ‘Súma’t’ programme promotes healthy habits and little-known modalities in schools, and reaches 26,000 children each year with some thirty workshops.

The Consell de Mallorca has renewed the ‘Súma’t’ workshops. Among those aimed at sports that are not widely practised, fencing sessions are being introduced in 2025. A new content that this year reaches 300 teenagers from 4 institutes that have requested it, in a first period as a pilot test.

The second vice-president and councillor for the Environment, Rural Affairs and Sports, Pedro Bestard, and the insular director of Sports, Toni Prats, have visited one of the workshops at the IES Llorenç Garcies y Font de Artà, where thirty students and their teacher have reviewed the history of this sport, which goes back more than 3,000 years in time. The fencing workshop also included an introduction to the regulated movements of this sport and some training practices, in which the Artanenc students showed great talent.

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The Consell de Mallorca promotes fencing with a new school workshop

Fencing is a combat sport between two people, called fencers, who face each other in a round limited by time and number of points, with the winner being the one who reaches the maximum number of points first or has scored more points than the opponent when the time runs out. Within this round, there is no physical contact between the two shooters beyond the contact with the tip of the weapon, without any act of great violence resulting from the fight.

The councillor, Pedro Bestard, stressed that ‘the Consell wants to promote new sports modalities, to publicise more alternative sports to stimulate interest, as in this case fencing’. He added that ‘the sports programme is very consolidated in schools, with 28 different workshops aimed at different cycles, where we have some very popular ones such as sling shooting or other sports such as rugby, hockey or canoeing’.

The Consell de Mallorca has included it in the ‘Súma’t’ programme for the last twelve academic years: a package of workshops that are a complementary educational offer that are opened at the request of schools at the beginning of the academic year, on the Gestib platform. In the 2024-2025 academic year, the workshops will reach 26,600 children and young people.