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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClaytonCross" data-source="post: 8087813" data-attributes="member: 6880599">Yes. Choosing the appropriate sword length for you and training with it to learn its measure, then that being the sword size you use while your spare in a competition is part of being a swords man. If show up to match having trained with a sword that is to large you will constantly fight out of measure leaving your opponent largly safe because you swing constantly with no chance of hitting your opponent. Training with a sword that is too short will mean you will habitually close aggressively to engage in your standard measure opening you up attacks you could easily avoid if you where using the additional reach your neglecting by pushing your self deep beyond the required measure.Alternatively, you practice Kendo and jiu jitsu only against small children and are confused when in the tournament all your attacks are low and weak.How you practice and how well you know your limits and your gear is an important part of how you play the game. You might call it prep and veiw is as meta to the tournament, but a swordsman who does not know what the right sword for them is and how it effects them in a match will almost certainly lose. Your training is part of your fighting even if you consider it separately. You don't train with a bow and arrow then expect to be a beater swordsman. Your training with the sword is as important and as much a part of your tournament fight as the fight itself.Their is and old expression "practice the way you play". It applies to D&D too in that all the meta you do outside of D&D for D&D effects what you do when you sit at the table and play. Add to that if your making D&D campaign settings and characters and discussing them with your friends I feel like your still playing D&D even though your not playing a session. Just like I consider you a swordsman if you practice every day even if you don't compete in tournaments.Another example. I am a network engineer. When I do a survey to make a plan to engineer a new part of the network and install it. I am doing networking when I survey, when I engineer it, and when I install it. Some might consider the survey meta but I can't engineer without it. Some might consider the install touch labor but my engineering does matter if its never implemented. I also get paid as a network engineer when I am doing all three because my company understand they are all part of the same thing.</blockquote>

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