ARN - Advantages

[gptaylor]

I think that an odd sized blade is an advantage to the wielder, as long as the opponent is
not familiar with facing a blade of those characteristics.   For example, those who routinely
wield a childs foil, or a 40 inch schlager know who to fight with these blades and use them
to the maximal advantage.  If I go out having never faced an offensive weapon with the
advantages of these blades, I will also be unfamiliar, or at least less familiar, with
capitalizing on its disadvantages; one up for them, one down for me.  Whenever someone
suggests using a blade of unusual length in tourney, it's often (though certainly not
exclusively) the case that they are doing so to increase the chance that they will win the
bout.  I tend to dislike this in tourney, as I want to be beaten by an opponent's skill or my
own shortcomings, rather than ignorance of blade behavior.  Facing these differences in
practice would be a blast, however...and once I knew how to handle myself with these
differences it might not prove a problem on the tourney field.

Isobel Hadleigh
Cadet to Kazimir
Afraid to Lurk...he's big.

Brent & Susan Rachel wrote:

> Boy, the goals thing sure died fast, didn't it.  I guess Ansgar and I just said all there
> was to say. ;-)
>
> Here a new one for you.., ND I WANT MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION HERE..., NO LURKING! ;-)
>
> If an opponents weapon is longer than yours, do you consider this to be an **UNFAIR**
> advantage?
>
> Do you see it as just a **regular old** advantage like a sabre bell?
>
> Do you see it as **just another difference** between weapons, each weapon having it's own
> inherent advantages *and* disadvantages?
>
> Is a 40" weapon in the hands of a short person and advantage over a 35" in the hands of a
> tall man?
>
> Will Sandy find out that her mother is secretly dating Dr. Jorden, the very doctor who
> just gave her husband a vascectomy?
>
> Kazimir Petrovich
>
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