Upper body strength for the win.
Eric Raymond
Shared publicly -What I did on my summer vacation:
This is me fighting with a glaive (bladed polearm) simulant. Falling on my cerebral-palsied ass. And winning anyway - that glaive cut up into the armpit counts as a death strike.
My opponent, Steve Holt, is using a hand-and-a-half sword. He almost got a kill shot in on me before I took him out, but the thrust was just a little slow.
This is me fighting with a glaive (bladed polearm) simulant. Falling on my cerebral-palsied ass. And winning anyway - that glaive cut up into the armpit counts as a death strike.
My opponent, Steve Holt, is using a hand-and-a-half sword. He almost got a kill shot in on me before I took him out, but the thrust was just a little slow.
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Jonathan Donald
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I have to believe that this encounter would have turned out very differently if these were real weapons, especially if you had fallen as you did here.
Nice recovery after the fall.
That was some quality fighting from the ground. Well done, Eric.
+Matthew Bernard Why, thank you, Matt, that means a lot coming from you.
"The short staff or half pike has the advantage against two sword and dagger men, or two rapiers, poniards, and gauntlets." -George Silver, Paradoxes of Defense
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