Every four years, the sport of fencing is on television screens as part of the Summer Olympics. Getting involved in the sport may seem difficult, but clubs like the Syracuse Musketeers give people an opportunity.

For 10-year-old Abbie Lough, night-watching TV sparked her newest passion.

"It's like really cool. The swords, the cool masks, the cool uniforms," Lough said. "I was watching Netflix with my mom and we were watching 'Wednesday,' and at the scene where she's like entering the fencing club or whatever, it was really cool, so I just wanted to try it out."

Abbie joined the Musketeers, where she's been turning heads.

"She used to fence with the little kids and now she's fencing with the adults, because she's progressing better and older than everybody else," said Lubomir Kalpakpchiev, fencing coach for the Syracuse Musketeers.

Lough says her favorite part about fencing is how it is like chess with muscles. She says you have to think what the other person is going to do if you do something. 

She uses her brain, she added, to beat her friends at practice, and uses her muscles at tournaments across New York.

"My mind was racing with all these like words saying, 'oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I can't do this, I can't do this,' " Lough said. "Eventually I got a few points. I was kind of proud of myself."

While the competition is fun, Lough said it's helping her grow as a person as well.

"I kind of love it; like it's where I can just be myself," Lough said.