Comments on: Meridian “Oddities” http://ulrichvb.com It is a better choice than doing nothing. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bastiano Francisco de Valencia http://ulrichvb.com/sca-ramblings/meridian-oddities/#comment-639 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:38:22 +0000 http://ulrichvb.wordpress.com/sca-ramblings/meridian-oddities/#comment-639 A question on the thrusting tip issue: I fought with one when I first started fighting, and found that I never used it. I removed it, after talking to my knight about it, and the fact that he felt it was causing a lot of my “tip solid” shots to be missed.

As my fighting experience grew, and I switched to a more period sized (smaller) shield, and a stance (modified A-frame) to make that shield effective. From this stance, I have found that the dynamics of swordplay change dramatically – thrusts become far more viable from this stance, almost vital to the effectiveness of attacks from the defensive stance. What are your thoughts on this?

+++ Bastiano – I’ll post a “ramble” about this topic in a few days…still catching up on things right now…

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