ayers@convexs.UUCP (08/27/85)
/* Written 6:11 pm Aug 22, 1985 by tewok@gymble.UUCP in convexs:net.legal */ /* ---------- "Re: Changing Left-handedness to Rig" ---------- */ Another way that left-handedness is an advantage is in sword fighting. Right-handed swordsmen are usually, from my experience, somewhat confused since the sword swings aren't coming from where they are expecting them and their swings are going where they aren't accustomed to putting them. /* End of text from convexs:net.legal */ "Lefties" on the other hand, only (usually) get to fight "righties" and are also confused when battling another "leftie". I had a lot of fun in college "swapping" hands (between bouts with the same person). I didn't have to be nearly as good with the other hand, just the swap would confuse the hell out of them... (I may not be wrong, but by God I'm not far from it!) blues, II
mcdaniel@uiucdcsb.Uiuc.ARPA (09/07/85)
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peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (09/11/85)
> /* Written 6:11 pm Aug 22, 1985 by tewok@gymble.UUCP in convexs:net.legal */ > /* ---------- "Re: Changing Left-handedness to Rig" ---------- */ > Another way that left-handedness is an advantage is in sword fighting. > Right-handed swordsmen are usually, from my experience, > somewhat confused since the sword swings aren't coming from where they > are expecting them and their swings are going where they aren't accustomed > to putting them. > /* End of text from convexs:net.legal */ > > "Lefties" on the other hand, only (usually) get to fight "righties" and are > also confused when battling another "leftie". I had a lot of fun in college > "swapping" hands (between bouts with the same person). I didn't have to be > nearly as good with the other hand, just the swap would confuse the hell > out of them... Anyone remember the swordfight in "The Princess Bride", where the greatest swordsman in the world (or equivalent) was accustomed to fight with the left to give his opponent a chance. There is a scene which goes roughly like this: They fight. Greatest swordsman (GS) is losing... GS: "You fight well, but there is something you don't know." Other Swordsman (OS): "What's that?" GS: "I am not left handed." Switch. OS is losing. OS: "But there is something you don't know." GS: "What?" OS: "I am also not left handed." Switch. While the GS is standing there in astonishment OS (who was left handed) kicks him & makes good his escape. The moral of the story is: never trust a lefty. <tongue-in-cheek grin>
frankr@enmasse.UUCP (Franklin Reynolds) (09/13/85)
Not that your story wasn't clever, but I think the OS (Other Swordsman) manages to defeat the GS (Greatest Swordsman) by superior fencing skill. As I recall the scene the GS was a better fencer in tight quarters ( I seem to remember a wooded area) and the OS was better out in the open. I recommend the Princess Bride to anyone in the least bit interested in heroic fantasy *or* clever satire. The fencing duel was easily the best scene of it's type that I have ever read. Franklin Reynolds EnMasse Computer Corp genrad!enmasse!frankr