[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe that 'fencing' is the stylized one with
lots of silly rules. Maybe you mean 'sword fighting'?
...
Yup. Anything involved with staying alive aint fencing.
It's not clear to me that having more flexible arms
would make much difference to sword fighting style.
If one wants to really cut the other, one tends to
have the arm extended, meaning it's straight.
...
My thoughts were: The more types of attacts, the more
one has to learn defence, so becoming a master swords-
man would be that much more difficult, and to a human
audience, that much more impressive.
Well, attacks that WORK. Humans already have a lot
of showy moves which aren't that useful. : )
Sc’ le pied. L'assaut de scorpion par le pied.
William--
I'm not clear on what a "scorpion attack to the foot"
would be. Or is it my French?
Overhead attack.of toehook to face or throatsac.
By blocking or locking opponent's sword arm.
Having that extra length and joint might make
a deadly attact of stepping past your opponent's
blade to thrust with your sword behind your own
back.
Maybe. Not all of these are sword moves? (Sword moves
tend to be done from further away?) It's not clear
to me that a "grab" with an extra-jointed arm is a
great improvement on a grab with a hand. I'd go so
far as to argue that grabbing a more flexible arm is
LESS useful than grabbing a human arm, so that grabs
would tend to be used less than they are in human
martial arts. (Where they are not used much in
sword fighting, in the first place.)
Now the ability to bring the sword all the way around
the body might be something. One can do it more
rapidly than whirling around, which is showy but
not too useful for humans. So it might be worth
something... One problem is that one loses a lot
of reach in the process.
----Weekend's over. Br!n now in subject line.
Oops! Sorry I didn't catch that.
---David
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