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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JackGiantkiller" data-source="post: 2291948" data-attributes="member: 5080">As a student of the sword who has experienced both boffer fighting and SCA rules fighting, sport fencing and kenjutsu:Sport fencing, boffer fighting, ScA rules, bokken work, and shinai practice all have one thing in common. They are not real swords, thus they are not indicative of how one fights with a real sword. There are moves one can make with these weapons that simply cannot be accomplished with a real sword...in the case of the bokken because it is a curved club. In the case of the other 'weapons', because they are, as one other poster mentioned, light enough to be effectively lightsabres.Several pounds of greatsword screaming down at you cannot be effectively blocked by one hand, and it is unlikely in the extreme that most trained fighters would try to block it at all. I, for one, would dodge a greatsword strike whenever possible, in order to avoid losing a limb, my weapon, or my life to one of the heaviest weapons on the battlefield.. They were often relatively blunt. That's because they didn't have to be razor sharp to remove limbs, and razor sharpess is actually a disadvantage when smashing through plate armor...the edges curl under, or chip.All that said...even the experts can't know what it was really like. They weren't there. Neither was i, obviously. All we know is what history tells us...and that is rarely enough. So, by all means, keep on arguing...no one is actually going to change their mind if they already have an opinion.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My only point is, as posted at the top, but paraphrased: Yes, SCA fighting is much closer to tennis than to actual fighting. It is a competetive sport with rules intended to keep people from getting hurt. War, on the other hand, is a competitive sport with rules designed to hurt as many people as possible. Big difference. (ex-military combat medic, take my irreverance with a grain of salt.)</blockquote>

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