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Dreadghost Fresnel Dreadghost Fresnel Dreadghost Not really, hitting someone with a flat might hurt, but would make your swing slow and he/she would have enough time to get the better of you. You see, a stick doesn't have an edge that needs to be used. Dunno about you, but I always acted like it did. razz
Vertical strikes don't work too well with a tree, and they're not fun. So long as you don't move your grip, the same two sides are always going to hit the target. Assume those are the blades, and there you have it.
Quote: What catch is to baseball is more like what modern sport fencing is to an actual hostile situation (of course, both assailants are using swords). A better comparison is using a broom to paint the house, sure it has hairs like a brush, and in a way works like one. But they are not at all the same when you wield them properly. But in the end, the house is painted. One just does a far better job of it. I don't quite understand this part. Are you saying you can't strike vertically with a sword? Not against the trees I fought. More often than not it gets stuck on an overhanging branch. Also, it was fifty times more fun to use horizontal strikes. I don't know why, it just was.
Quote: Right, but assuming gets you no where. You can use a stick and throw twigs and assume those are its bullets, doesn't quite mean its an accurate comparison with a gun. Pick up any sword, hold the blade with edges parallel to the ground, and swing it horizontally. Are you EVER going to hit something with the dull sides?
I suppose I'm assuming a double-sided sword here, but it's not like those are rare.
Quote: So maybe it is painted, but are you now going to say a paint brush is just a glorified broom? Doesn't sound right when you put it in that perspective, does it? Paint brushes didn't evolve from brooms (as far as I know, at least). Swords are the end of the ten-thousand-year evolution of sticks as a weapon.
Quote: A stick and a sword are two different tools, that is, if you look at the stick as a weapon not a material. Its silly to wield a sword like you would a club(stick) and vice versa. They may be slightly similar, but by far not the same. But this goes for all tools. I understand people generally thinking the two are used the same, probably because they are melee weapons, but that's like saying a gun and a bow is used in the same way. Guns and bows can be surprisingly similar. The basic principles of marksmanship apply to both, but the basic operation differs completely.
I think though, that if you took someone trained with a mechanical-release bow, gave them a bolt-action rifle and some ammo, and let them figure it out on their own... it wouldn't take long for them to have it figured out pretty well. Are you sure swords evolved from sticks? I would think a flint cutter would be more like it. Well, that is to say if it really did evolve like that. Well it's not like I have any PROOF here, but I'm expecting an intermediary step along the lines of the Aztec obsidian-bladed clubs.
Quote: I am still not sure with the holding part. Not to mention angling your edge to your target doesn't go in 4 different degrees. And if I swing a stick I hardly angle it perfectly with my hand, its not needed at all. No, but perfect angling isn't absolutely required with most blades either. Not that I've ever killed a man or anything, but if you hit a tree with a hatchet that's off-angle by 10° or so, it'll bounce off, but so will a chunk of tree the size of a finger.
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