[Regia-NA] Regia Combat (was Greetings)

[Douglas Sunlin]

>I have experimented with a blade and post and found that most of them don't 
>land as would be required to become fatal. A few do but the ratio is very 
>low in my experience. (This wasn't a massive study to be honest and not 
>documented but it is my feeling that to throw a fatal wrap shot would be 
>very rare)

Using western swords, I have done tameshigiri test cutting as performed in 
Japanese swordsmanship. This involves a bundle of "straw" (actually a rush) 
that has been soaked in water. Cutting single sword with a sharp will put 
the bundle clean in half. Add a shield and the equation becomes more 
complex; the shield must be out of the way of a follow-through. For the 
"sport" forms in the US and UK, with the pulled blows, a "good" blow may be 
landed without any follow-through, thus the shield is often held in a 
position that would have hindered a killing blow if the fight had been for 
real.

Not sure if that made sense.

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