[MR] That was then, this is now

[logan]

to me there really are no disadvantages.  i find fighting from my knees
about as challenging as fighting standing up although i think i win more
often from my knees against a standing opponent than i do if we are both
standing.  in melee it is often advantageous to have multiple fighters
trying to attack you at the same time if you if you strategically line them
up and use them as defensive options against one another.  fighting with
ones off hand is just wrong on every level since the left arm and hand are
evil vile growths of uncontrolled and uncoordinated meat and bone.  terrible
terrible things.

there is an excellent video on youtube of lord sasha from the midrealm
fighting, i think duke dag, in a crown list.  sasha is legged and only has
one sword in his off hand.  dag, unscathed, steps in to a throw a shot and
sasha ducks and plants a hard thrust into dags stomach winning the fight.
its the will to win that will drive people to rally against any odds.  while
sasha did not win the tourney he won the best thing we can hope to, great
renown.  had duke dag "evened" things up he would have robbed sasha of that.

regards
logan

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-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of
ldmolly at md.metrocast.net
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:36 PM
To: 'Merry Rose'
Subject: Re: [MR] That was then, this is now

A-ha...that's a fair explanation. 

I have another question for the fighters in the tavern (again, I am
attempting to learn about the different points of view here):

When fighting in a tournament, at what point do the advantages of one
opponent over another start to make a difference? 
Legged, fighting off arm, experience (or lack thereof), many-against-one
or...for some, no level of advantage would make the fight so disparate as to
require equalization? How do each of you make the determination? 

Thanks for the great dialog, 

Molly



On Wed 09/30/09 12:17 PM , "Wayne Remes" wremes at carolina.rr.com sent:
The differance from my point of view is that while your opponent was
standing usually the Sun to your back is not a factor as it is higher in the
sky than your opponents vision, and should not have been a factor in
wounding or killing him. However, when your opponent is on his/her knees,
the angle of vision has changed and they are looking up more into the sun.
Fighting and making them look into the sun is a trick, infering that you do
not have the needed skill to defeat our opponent without using a really
cheap trick.

Axel
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