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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storyteller01" data-source="post: 1947932" data-attributes="member: 20931">Can't argue with the degree, but it doesn't jibe with my experience. Had the oppprotunity to wack folks (living and dummies)with all manner of weapons. The grip needed for each weapon never changed. Given that the striking surface absorbed the greatest impact, all the hand needed to do was butress said weapon.This is done on to points (ring/pinky finger and the pad of the index finger). Whne fighting with larger weapons, these points expand in distance (each hand covers each point). Because of this, my body weight absorbs the blow, not my grip. I have used axes and hammers with a handle less than an inch wide, and applied the same principles. Given that a human fighting one handed applys about half his total power (if it were otherwise, two handed axes would not be more effective than one handed), and assuming that the average human weights in at 180 to 190 lbs (fighters are not body builders, and most of our military meet this standard unless they work out. also remember that members of Asian cultures tend to weight less, and still maintain the same power output), why is a halfling weighting in at roughly 60 to 70 lbs (I believe) doing less two handed? This little folks do use heavy (by their standards) tools to manipulate the same environment humans live in (cutting trees, dovetailing the wood, etc.).</blockquote>