Wheelchair fencing was introduced into the International Stoke Mandeville Games (ISMG) in 1954, when a demonstration was given by a paraplegic from the Spinal Unit at Rockwood, Cardiff, and his able-bodied instructor, Professor Reynolds.Dr (later Sir) Ludwig Guttmann, himself a keen fencer in his student days at Heidelberg University, Germany, was very quick to recognise the potential for fencing as an addition to the sports practised from a wheelchair.