The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
A warden's sword for Harry...
khadgar4606:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on July 23, 2017, 03:32:11 AM ---Even if he had intellectus for us, unless that extended to physical things he would still have to train his body and train his reflexes to use his knowledge. Even if Harry somehow had the knowledge of the world's greatest swordsman, his body would still have to be trained to use that knowledge effectively.
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winter mantle and demon reach actualy training him to become magus of cross and its not hard to fix his training with sword. via intellectus to show some beginings and monoc mercenery the advance training
kazimmoinuddin:
I could see the council giving him a sword just to force him carrying out the execution of a law breaker. I had this theory that somehow the sword counters a magic user death curse. It cuts magic, so using it to slay a magic user interferes with the last casting of magic.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: Rasins on July 20, 2017, 04:46:42 PM ---And I thought Harry said he was a far better fencer than swordsman. That he had reach enough to hit from the next county over. Though I thought a fencer WAS a swordsman.
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Fencing is to swordsmanship more or less as boxing is to MMA - it's one discipline in the field, but as a form it limits a lot of the techniques one might use if practically trying to hurt an opponent.
khadgar4606:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 24, 2017, 02:36:54 AM ---Fencing is to swordsmanship more or less as boxing is to MMA - it's one discipline in the field, but as a form it limits a lot of the techniques one might use if practically trying to hurt an opponent.
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yet its board enough to get both swashbuckling and foil fencing as topic and harry has a cane sword which shows he might have bit swashbuckling training so he can handle a suitable sword and moderately good at it plus it gives him excuse to quote princess bride to enemies or how hammy the joke is pull a jack sparrow on his arse.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: Snark Knight on July 24, 2017, 02:36:54 AM ---Fencing is to swordsmanship more or less as boxing is to MMA - it's one discipline in the field, but as a form it limits a lot of the techniques one might use if practically trying to hurt an opponent.
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From the POV of my martial arts education at least I'd classify Fencing, Boxing, and MMA as all in the same general boat as fencing, all being martial arts "Sport adaptations" that have certain style and technique limitations that are necessary to keep competitors from killing each other too easily.
Perhaps instead:
Fencing:Swordsmanship::Boxing:Hand-to-Hand Combat?
That beings said, Fencing styles do make sense for Harry (and actual, non-sport versions of that sword style have existed since at least musketeer times) as it's very linear (like his mindset) and more importantly it is more or less optimized to leverage a Reach advantage, as Harry always mentioned about his lunge. So even for real defense it's not a terrible route. Especially when the traditional Sword v. Armor issues are less prominent do to magical variations
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