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Visual comparison of Japanese and European sword positions (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

fighting against armored opponents != fighting through armor, the fighting style is designed to target specific points that are exposed on armored opponents, making the style less practical against unarmored, hence like you mentioned, there's a different manual on it. the fact that there's a completely different manual on it shows the practicality of how different weapons are under different conditions, hence why there really isn't any realistic scenario where it's on any even playing field, because fixing the rules will give the edge to one style over the other.

[–] Maalus 2 points 1 week ago

I said different manual, but it is more of a "different chapter in the same book". There is a shitload of practicioners of the unarmored parts - that's what people train mostly as HEMA. "Armoured" fighting is more problematic since it often involves having to throw your opponent, or other dangerous shit. Also not many people can afford full plate / the plastic equivallent.

If you wanted to see a HEMA vs japanese martial arts, all it takes is getting two people who do each together.