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Zwaardkring
Feb. 16th, 2012 10:30 pmI get the whole point of swordfighting lessons, honestly I do. I go to this club and they teach me new and interesting ways to kill other people. Only, we don't actually kill people but we play at killing people. It's all in the technique, so to speak.
So we have hängers and abstellen and absetzen en uberlaufen and all these other interesting techniques. If we don't stab you in the torso under your shield, or lock your sword between two shields to stab you in the face, then we just bash our shields into your face after we've swatted your puny sword to the side. Or, just when you thought you had us and you were really quite happy to just attack me from above, I surprise you and stab you right in the stomach with an underhand awkward left-sided thrust. I get it. It's really cool.
What I don't get and what's starting to really piss me off is that as soon as we do any kind of game with these weapons, everyone suddenly starts "mowing the grass". Hey look at me trying this really cool attack from the... oh never mind there go the legs again. King of the hill? Yeah, no more ankles. Tactical 4 against 4 game? Oops there go the legs. One side attacks, the other only defends? Hey guess what? My legs!
It's not Merlyn's fault, really, but after two lessons where all that gets hit is the legs, I'm kind of sick and tired of the whole thing. As soon as we're not learning a new technique everyone just wants to win as quickly as possible and they go for the legs.
We're not practicing our new techniques, we're just mowing the grass. If I wanted to do that, I'd get a lawn!!!
Last week it really hurt, they weren't careful at all. This week it was just annoying. I'd like to kick someone's ass for a change, and not be sent off the field because someone thought it was cool to hamstring me yet again.
So we have hängers and abstellen and absetzen en uberlaufen and all these other interesting techniques. If we don't stab you in the torso under your shield, or lock your sword between two shields to stab you in the face, then we just bash our shields into your face after we've swatted your puny sword to the side. Or, just when you thought you had us and you were really quite happy to just attack me from above, I surprise you and stab you right in the stomach with an underhand awkward left-sided thrust. I get it. It's really cool.
What I don't get and what's starting to really piss me off is that as soon as we do any kind of game with these weapons, everyone suddenly starts "mowing the grass". Hey look at me trying this really cool attack from the... oh never mind there go the legs again. King of the hill? Yeah, no more ankles. Tactical 4 against 4 game? Oops there go the legs. One side attacks, the other only defends? Hey guess what? My legs!
It's not Merlyn's fault, really, but after two lessons where all that gets hit is the legs, I'm kind of sick and tired of the whole thing. As soon as we're not learning a new technique everyone just wants to win as quickly as possible and they go for the legs.
We're not practicing our new techniques, we're just mowing the grass. If I wanted to do that, I'd get a lawn!!!
Last week it really hurt, they weren't careful at all. This week it was just annoying. I'd like to kick someone's ass for a change, and not be sent off the field because someone thought it was cool to hamstring me yet again.
