<div>Except, as pointed out above, it's an apples to oranges comparison. Cut and thrust is new and growing. Epee and foil are old and basically dead. Cut and Thrust is essentially the most accurate way to fight with a sword in the SCA. Epee and foil are arguably the least (depending on how you feel about the comparison between rattan and the horn tournament weapons used in the middle ages). </div>
<div><br></div><div>- Mateo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Chris Zakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dontivar@gmail.com" target="_blank">dontivar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">At 10:48 AM 10/15/2012, you wrote:<br>
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So you are going to go from playing the "ethnic cleansing" card to the "I can not respond to a reasoned well thought out comment so I will retort with an absurd childish comment comparing two things that have nothing to do with each other". Well played oh great god Tivar well played. Because we all know that a weapon that has fallen out of use and a weapon system that is up and coming in the society has so much to do with each other.<br>
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Double sigh.<br>
Pieter<br>
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It's called reduction ad absurdum, Piet.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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-Tivar Moondragon<br>
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