Re: [DL] Firing in H2H

[Jolly Roger <philipp.savun@VR-Web.de>]

"B.D. Flory" schrieb:

> | Because a bo-fighter also would have no chance to hit the knive-fighter.
> | Long weapon`s long weapon.
>
> Disagree.
>
> You're making a blanket statement that, while true in some instances, is a
> terrible generalization.  Granted, the knife-fighter has several advantages
> over the staff-fighter: speed and a blade being the two most prominent.
> However, reach is a larger factor than I suspect you give credit for.  A
> trained martial artist with bo staff is not taught solely to block and
> attack.  He is also taught how to maintain his distance, just like the
> knife fighter is taught to close that distance.  If the bo fighter can, in
> fact, maintain that distance, it is the knife fighter who has no chance
> (barring a thrown knife, of course- a risky proposition for the knife
> fighter).
>
> I've been in the above situation plenty of times sparring with and against
> a fake knife, so I know of what I speak.
>
> B.D. Flory
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Yeah, I wrote a little short due lack of time.
The fact is, there are two types of martial arts: long ranged and struggling,
if you could say so (my English isn`t the best). My suggestion is, that the
knife-fighter has more trouble to hit the bo-swinger, but once the knife-Joe
hit his target, the bo-wielder is at a disadvantage.
But this is also true for a karateka fighting a someone trained in boxing or
ju-jitsu, because karate is no close-ranged martial art while the other both
are for distances of mere centimeters (or inches as you woul say) or even on
ground. As I know you can disable many martial artists by throwing them to the
ground and trying to stick them to it.
On the other hand: What`s possible with a bo that`s possible with a rifle. And
when the gunslinger is at a fighting distance appropriate for a bo he could
even shoot, but only when the knife-fighter is near the rifler-wearer is in
trouble, if he isn`t able to make distance, espacially if he`s lying on the
ground.

 Jolly Roger
Marshal of the Seven Seas