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Message: <blockquote data-quote="big dummy" data-source="post: 2883968" data-attributes="member: 41052">Wrong.  Unless you are talking about pole arms, you are wrong, there aren't numerous weapons over 7 pounds. Because 1) I've spent hundreds of hours training with swords, and I know how ridiculous it would be to try to use a weapon anywhere near that weight.2) Because I have handled real historical weapons and accurate replicas3) Because I've been to dozens of events with some of the worlds leading experts on swords and I know what they believe, exactly as I do on this subject.4) Because I've corresponded with many of these same experts for years.5) Because it's the consensus of every book written on the subject since 1965.6) Because it's the consensus on any and every repuatable online forum on swords.Thats a specific type of 16th century sword which was used in pike combat, on battlefields iwth muskets and cannons.  They used to specifically include this weapon in OED&D but they dropped it, probably because it was from a later era.Agian, thats a zweihander.  Go look at 100 two-hand or hand and a half swords on myarmoury and figure out the average weight.  I dare you.LOL!!!!Perhaps not the most widely used term but I can't imagine where you got the idea it was about sword forms in ARMA!!!  LOL!! You are ...er ... misinformed, to be...  polite, and you are making a fool of yourserlf.  Spathology means nothing more or less than the study of swords.  From "Spatha" meaning sword.    Just as hoplology meqans the study of weapons.  The only thing it has to do with ARMA is that they also study swords and some (though by no means all) ARMA members probably consider themselves spathologists.The pioneer in the field is Ewart Oakeshott who invented the modern sword typologyNot in vogue for ARMA?  ROFL!!! What is that supposed to mean?  ARMA studies historical martial arts period, based on historical weapons, period.  They aren't making up their own fashion trends, it's not the SCA (or D&D).  Like I said, if you think there is something weird about ARMA in particular, check sword forum online or myarmoury or any reputable source of your own.You asked them, they told you, 8 lbs is ridiculous.  You are going further and further out on a limb.  It's sort of symbolic of a whole attitude ... why not just learn some real information instead of insisting on the absurd?BD</blockquote>

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