Touche Turtle began fencing while in Monaco around 1951. Touche basically did all the sword fighting by himself, but the people who tried to train Touche said that they could easily defeat him. But this would change a year later when Dum-Dum (the uncle of Runt) was walking down the street and he saw a sword-fighting turtle and asked Touche what he was doing. Touche said that he was fencing and Dum-Dum told him that he's seen a lot of fencing around the streets. Touche knew that Dum-Dum was talking about fences so he taught Dum-Dum how to do fencing. Touche did all the moves while Dum-Dum just stood there holding his sword.