Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.books Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Rig Message-ID: <189@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 07:19:48 EDT Article-I.D.: graffiti.189 Posted: Wed Sep 11 07:19:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 14-Sep-85 06:03:49 EDT References: <274@gymble.UUCP> <17500013@convexs> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.legal:2330 net.books:2297 > /* Written 6:11 pm Aug 22, 1985 by tewok@gymble.UUCP in convexs:net.legal */ > /* ---------- "Re: Changing Left-handedness to Rig" ---------- */ > Another way that left-handedness is an advantage is in sword fighting. > Right-handed swordsmen are usually, from my experience, > somewhat confused since the sword swings aren't coming from where they > are expecting them and their swings are going where they aren't accustomed > to putting them. > /* End of text from convexs:net.legal */ > > "Lefties" on the other hand, only (usually) get to fight "righties" and are > also confused when battling another "leftie". I had a lot of fun in college > "swapping" hands (between bouts with the same person). I didn't have to be > nearly as good with the other hand, just the swap would confuse the hell > out of them... Anyone remember the swordfight in "The Princess Bride", where the greatest swordsman in the world (or equivalent) was accustomed to fight with the left to give his opponent a chance. There is a scene which goes roughly like this: They fight. Greatest swordsman (GS) is losing... GS: "You fight well, but there is something you don't know." Other Swordsman (OS): "What's that?" GS: "I am not left handed." Switch. OS is losing. OS: "But there is something you don't know." GS: "What?" OS: "I am also not left handed." Switch. While the GS is standing there in astonishment OS (who was left handed) kicks him & makes good his escape. The moral of the story is: never trust a lefty.