Re: Br!n. Cyrano de Bergerac's "Thrust home." (Hoo-ha!) ::rimshot::
In a message dated 5/30/2006 6:57:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not clear on what a "scorpion attack to the foot" would be. Or is it my French? Why I need stick figures. Probably with two weapons. Attacker pins both arms/ weapons to the outside, with body horizontal. One hooked leg becomes the center of balance. One leg curls up over the attacker's head to toehook opponent's throatsac. Sort of what you could do with a karate crane attack with an extra leg part, starting backwards. A heck of a lot better balance than the average human. Which, IIRC, the hoon have. An attack to use in a tall narrow hallway? Vilyehm ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Br!n. Cyrano de Bergerac's "Thrust home." (Hoo-ha!) ::rimshot::
[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 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Br!n. Cyrano de Bergerac's "Thrust home." (Hoo-ha!) ::rimshot::
In a message dated 5/30/2006 6:05:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William-- 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. Sc’ le pied. L'assaut de scorpion par le pied. 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. I think I need a lot of play-dough and pipe cleaners. Weekend's over. Br!n now in subject line. with William Taylor - Good words on page I do forebare Not pulled out from my derriere. Blest be the man who says, "writes well" And curst be he who makes me spell. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
