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>(to illustrate this, try flipping a light switch with the far end of a broom handle - that's a still, unmoving target, and you might find it takes a rather sur
by PepeGomez 10y ago
>(to illustrate this, try flipping a light switch with the far end of a broom handle - that's a still, unmoving target, and you might find it takes a rather surprising amount of manual control).
I actually tried. It's hard do take you seriously anymore...
- andrewflnr 10y agoIf that was easy for you, you may be unusually talented.
- douche 10y agoRapiers and estocs[1] for piercing and hitting chinks in armor were also constructed with most of the weight centered around the hilt (large pommels and guards), which give better control of the point. The other extreme would be something like the falchion[2], with the weight concentrated near the end of the blade for chopping, like a scaled up meat cleaver or machete. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoc [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falchion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falchion