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Sleeper wrote: he moves his head right into the path of my incoming redshot.
Depends on how well they can parry your shot, or how much of a hurry they're in. I tend to wait for someone with a red to swing, before advancing. The more committed they are to breaking my shield (or bones) the more likely I'll hesitate.Sleeper wrote:Should the shieldman wait for me to swing and THEN counterattack?
Mefit the Geek wrote:You'll get what I give you and like it!
Slagar wrote:Congrats, your realm has finally progressed to the point where you need to feint. Stutter the shot you've been throwing, catch their counter-shot, hack their arms off. Repeat until they stop responding predictably.
What you have here isn't a problem, it's an opportunity.
Sleeper wrote:I've broken an arm, a bunch of fingers, cut someone's face wide open and fractured someone's teeth. Why? Because people don't want to lose their shield, so they tell me to hit their shield REAL hard.
Forkbeard wrote:No.
You were just given very good advice for the closest thing to profesional swordfighters as YOU'RE * is ever likely to meet and you say you,ve tried it and it doesn't work? Then you are not doing the things we suggested correctly. Matbe you should go and practice instead of just thinking you need to swing hard.
I think th problem lies solely with you. You are always talking up your red sword skills, while you * about stuff like this.
Here,s the facts, kid. I am the biggest, hardest hitting person around here. I fight with the same weapons you do. I regularly knock people down woth red hits. I have one the last 4 national tourneies I have entered.
I HAVE NEVER INJURED ANYONE. Ever. YOU are doing it wrong.
sorry if this is hard to take, but you need to look at yourself. Your skills, and your motivation to fight to work this out.
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Forkbeard wrote:Tearcil finnaly said something I agree with. Good on ya.
Sleepy, I have been fighting 18 years.
We fight twice a weeks here. I'm not going to argue with you.
You ARE doing it wrong. I would have kicked you out of my group by now for injuring other fighters with your unsafe fighting. We have NEVER had to do that, though. Even though we have several guiys in the active militarty who are over 200 lbs. No on has ever broken a bone at our practice.
If you don't want to listen to the advice of your better, why did you come in here and ask for it? You seem to just want to tell us all how bad * you are.
Well, you are not. You are just sloppy.
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Sleeper wrote:Lately, I've been giving people headshots over and over again
Bishop wrote:Overall I believe the article was positive for our image, loosely defining us as a sadomasochist anti-larp. I'm ok with that. http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/LARP-harder
Caleidah wrote:But, his sensei passed that style down to him! Literal hours of tradition!
Arrakis wrote:Sleeper, your weapons sucked badly when I lived in Nashville. Like, I was tempted to build you an actually nice redsword just once so you'd get addicted to how nice fighting with a well-made weapon is and have to start buying good stuff instead of just duct taping bad foam to whatever core you have handy at the time and covering it with a pair of nylons.
If you're still making crap swords, then you going through them that quickly is reasonable. I recommend you build something nicer (this will help you keep from breaking humans, as well). However, I don't recall you hitting particularly hard. Of course, I built stabbing tips on my swords and so rarely had difficulty defeating red weapon fighters from Dur Demarion, so maybe that is warping my experiences.
Anyway, Fork is right, as he sometimes is: if stuttering and then throwing elsewhere or changing your starting position and opening shots isn't stopping the headshot, you're not doing those things like you think you are or you're dealing with one particularly bad headboxer who really does deserve the brain damage.
Ask a good sword'n'board vet to help you work on it. I don't know if anyone of any ability still fights down there, though. Is Koom still fighting? Iliak? I know Izzy isn't...
Sleeper wrote: I destroyed an Edhellen greatsword in ONE day (at Rag) so no, it isn't my sword durability.
Tiercel wrote:****. I think he's throwing flat headshots with a red sword.
Forkbeard wrote:Another thing I think you should consider is the fragile nature of real swords.
Real swords break if you fight stupid hard with them. Doing the wrong thing at the wrong time can bend, shatter, or just snap off a real steel blade. Part of fighting with large 2 handed swords in real life is doing it WITHOUT breaking it, so that you can continue to fight more people.
If you are tearing swords apart the way you say, you are definently doing it wrong.
I remeber your Edhellen redsword tip failure thread well. That was your fault for tip fighting.
Read, lean, then go out and work on being a netter fighter, not a harder hitter.
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Forkbeard wrote:Another thing I think you should consider is the fragile nature of real swords.
Real swords break if you fight stupid hard with them. Doing the wrong thing at the wrong time can bend, shatter, or just snap off a real steel blade. Part of fighting with large 2 handed swords in real life is doing it WITHOUT breaking it, so that you can continue to fight more people.
If you are tearing swords apart the way you say, you are definently doing it wrong.
I remeber your Edhellen redsword tip failure thread well. That was your fault for tip fighting.
Read, lean, then go out and work on being a netter fighter, not a harder hitter.
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Forkbeard wrote:Arrow, you're a douche.
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Peanut of Loderia wrote:McFinn I thought you were dead. Or, you know, no longer active.
. a hits a hit and if you question whether it hit or not, take it.
Forkbeard wrote:If you question whether you were hit or not, call light.
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Forkbeard wrote:Arrow, you're a douche.
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Celtic Christ wrote:It seems like this was a bit of a dead thread but I'll throw in my two cents. Odd shots happen all the time. You need to learn the people you're fighting against and keep your head. Usually I'll use spear or glaive and try to keep my shots light and in control. Most of the bad shots that get taken from me are torso shots that they block down instead of out. If a specific individual thinks your shots are too light on a regular basis you can go aside with them and see whether it's your shot or them not taking a valid one. On taking the shots it depends on location for whether or not I'll take a light shot. Grazing my arm is light but a light slash across the stomach i think of as disemboweling.
Arrakis wrote:Celtic Christ wrote:It seems like this was a bit of a dead thread but I'll throw in my two cents. Odd shots happen all the time. You need to learn the people you're fighting against and keep your head. Usually I'll use spear or glaive and try to keep my shots light and in control. Most of the bad shots that get taken from me are torso shots that they block down instead of out. If a specific individual thinks your shots are too light on a regular basis you can go aside with them and see whether it's your shot or them not taking a valid one. On taking the shots it depends on location for whether or not I'll take a light shot. Grazing my arm is light but a light slash across the stomach i think of as disemboweling.
If you're taking light ever, you're the cancer that's killing Belegarth.
Quit it.
Arrakis wrote:Celtic Christ wrote:It seems like this was a bit of a dead thread but I'll throw in my two cents. Odd shots happen all the time. You need to learn the people you're fighting against and keep your head. Usually I'll use spear or glaive and try to keep my shots light and in control. Most of the bad shots that get taken from me are torso shots that they block down instead of out. If a specific individual thinks your shots are too light on a regular basis you can go aside with them and see whether it's your shot or them not taking a valid one. On taking the shots it depends on location for whether or not I'll take a light shot. Grazing my arm is light but a light slash across the stomach i think of as disemboweling.
If you're taking light ever, you're the cancer that's killing Belegarth.
Quit it.
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