Re: [HOE] Two weapons fighting

[John Constable <jconstable@pobox.com>]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Jeff Shoffner wrote:

> Ugh!  Hmmm, Sais....  That's a good one....  Hmmm, let me get back to you on
> that.......
> 

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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: markedman <cmhylton@earthlink.net>
> To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
> Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [HOE] Two weapons fighting
> 
> 
> >The question I have with the double weapon thing is that does it follow
> with
> >Sais?  They are usually used as pairs to that you can stop sword strikes or

first the disclaimer; I'm not an japanese weapons expert, but I do have a 
few years experience in chinese martial arts.  If you're knowledge 
is more comprehensive than mine, apologies, I'm not trying to teach you to 
suck eggs :-)
Sai are, as I understand it, not necasserily used as paried weapons, 
indeed they were used a lot by the police of the time to disarm unruly 
samuari and ronin, using just a single sai.  while you can choose to use 
two sai as a pair, the correct use of a the weapon doesn't require it, it 
is the twisting action that breaks a sword, not the use of two of them. 
In the (european) west, 
swordbreakers were used in a similar fashion, but there they were used 
as a pair, since the main weapon was a sword (a rapier of some kind if 
memory serves), and the second the sword breaker, used to trap and entange 
the opponents sword, so you could move in for the kill.

All of which rambling means that in my opinion, and game, if you wanted 
to use paired sai, you would have to take the fightin' florontine skill 
or "two fisted" edge.

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