Faust von ASVS wrote:To all the people bashing the bat'leth: It was designed by a martial arts expert and several prestigeous dojos in Korea and Japan have recognised it as a valid competition weapon with its own unique fighting style.
1. You claim to be from ASVS, but I have yet to see you there.
2. If you can prove your questionable assertions, please do so. Preferably in a fashion that clearly refutes the numerous valid points previously made by Master of Ossus.
3. Competition is not combat. Competition, in fact, simply means two or more people can gain points over each other. If we held a spoon competition, would this validate the spoon as anything other than a kitchen utensil?
In the hands of a person who trained for and with the Bat'leth, it would be a useful weapon.
...as would a pen an a paper. There is actually a martial arts employing these two objects, made as a ploy and an example of how to integrate the most innocous items into fighting.
And by that same token, in the hands of a person trained with and for paper and pen, these would be useful weapons indeed. So useful, in fact, that there would only be three differences between them and real weapons of today: the time necessary to learn to fight effectively, the utility of the weapons, and the skill needed for it to make sense.
Just like pen and paper, the Bath'leth loses badly to normal weapons in all these key arenas.
