Mikko Rintasaari:
> I'm a fair hand with a broadsword myself, as well as a decently
> competent martial artist. Yet when I started fencing, For a long time my
> earlier swordfighting experience didn't seem to help at all. I could
> parry instinctively much better than the other novices, but I had to
> learn how to attack and how to move all over again.
... One might argue that fencing is, if not entirely outside the domain of "close combat", then certainly, pushing the envelope.
But by and large I agree, as copious other examples should presumbly have made tediously evident by now.
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