Dragaera

Swords, and a tolerable acquaintance with their length

Fri Aug 16 17:59:02 PDT 2002

At 01:37 PM 8/16/2002 -0500, Brad wrote:

>Saber fencing, without the modern rules of right of way, would quickly
>degenerate into something like Epee fencing.  Both Khaavren and Vlad
>seem to execute an absurd number of stop cuts, which makes me think
>that Steve was a saber fencer with fast hands, well, faster than your
>average saber fencer.  (What is funny, to me, is that Noish-Pa seems
>to fence more like a classical foil fencer to me, not that we see him
>fence much.)  Modern saber fencing was developed in Hungary, which
>really ought to answer any questions about what style Vlad is using.

*sigh* You people are too smart for me.  Maybe I'll switch to writing about 
spaceships.