Perfect timing!
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| Sander_Marechal May 11, 2010 2:30 AM EDT |
Perfect timing of this article! I recently broke my right index finger in a sword fight, so for the moment I am forced to type solely with my left hand. One thing that has helped a lot is that I have been using AwesomeWM and Vimperator for quite some time. That means I hardly ever have to use the mouse. Switching from keyboard to mouse and back again is a lot more tiresome with one hand than with two! |
| AwesomeTux May 11, 2010 6:11 AM EDT |
Maybe you should use a one hand Dvorak keyboard? Dvorak uses the same keyboard, but moves all of the letters around. So you could just take your keys off, put them in Dvorak order then use a Dvorak keyboard layout. |
| Bob_Robertson May 11, 2010 9:23 AM EDT |
> I recently broke my right index finger in a sword fight... SCA? Budo taijutsu? Kendo? Jedi? Olympic Fencing? A fellow practitioner is curious. |
| jacog May 11, 2010 9:35 AM EDT |
Bob, I think he's about to confess that he went LARPing. EDIT: Or that he is a viking reenactor. |
| phsolide May 11, 2010 9:48 AM EDT |
Don't know about anyone else, but when I read "One-handed Workarounds" I had to snicker. In a not very nice at all manner. If you know what I mean, and I think that you do. |
| Sander_Marechal May 11, 2010 10:57 AM EDT |
Quoting:SCA? Budo taijutsu? Kendo? Jedi? Olympic Fencing? Western Martial Arts. We were having a full-contact sparring session with blunt steel longswords. I was wearing a steel helmet, gambeson and chainmail hauberk but I was only wearing training gloves, not steel gauntlets. My opponent didn't notice since he was wearing a full 14th century armour with pigface helmet. They have very low visibility. Anyway, I badly fumbled trying to counter his attack and he accidentally hit me full on my fingers. It wasn't the first time either. You wouldn't believe how he dented my helm! Oh well, that's what you get for taking on the trainer himself with only a few months of experience :-) Quoting:A fellow practitioner is curious. What do you practice? Quoting:EDIT: Or that he is a viking reenactor. Close. We're doing 1250-ish Knights Hospitaller. |
| hkwint May 11, 2010 3:57 PM EDT |
Sander: Phew, you must be glad if you're done with the 13th century and move on to the 17th so you can use a foil instead! Just like I did to Juliette, I'd recommend dvorak-l. It's perfect for 'people who lost an arm in the war'! |
| Sander_Marechal May 11, 2010 4:05 PM EDT |
Quoting:Sander: Phew, you must be glad if you're done with the 13th century and move on to the 17th so you can use a foil instead! Are you kidding? I went 13th century so I could use a real sword instead of a toothpick! :-D |
| tuxchick May 11, 2010 4:19 PM EDT |
phsolide, me too. |
| Bob_Robertson May 12, 2010 2:15 PM EDT |
"Western Martial Arts", neat. I guess you've already seen "Reclaiming The Sword". I've done SCA, which is akin to what you were doing but without the steel (blunted or not), using rattan for the contact weapons and steel/leather/mail armor. Someone recently pointed me to "Deadliest Warrior", where they talked about how effective the "shield punch" turns out to be. Clearly the SCA had had experience with that, because one of the first rules of combat told to everyone is that the shield punch is FORBIDDEN! I've also done Olympic fencing and kendo, and even foil/epee in the context of the SCA for "late period" combat. Which reminds me, I got DVD-RAM to work today. Something about "hard sectors"... |
| Sander_Marechal May 12, 2010 3:00 PM EDT |
Quoting:I guess you've already seen "Reclaiming The Sword". Not yet, actually. Someone from our training group was going to loan me his copy so I'm going to see it soon. Quoting:Clearly the SCA had had experience with that, because one of the first rules of combat told to everyone is that the shield punch is FORBIDDEN! Hehe. I know SCA. It's great. Different from WMA though, but pretty cool. My biggest reservation about SCA are all the people who build fantastic outfits and armours, only to ruin them with bar grills and blue foam padding. I know why they are required but I cringe everytime when I see a beautiful hand-raised bascined with a bar grill on it. As for shield punches, at our group it's allowed. Depending on armour pretty much everything is allowed except thusts to the face and certain chokes during wrestling. Of couse, we don't hit quite as hard as SCA folk. |
| Bob_Robertson May 12, 2010 4:23 PM EDT |
> I cringe everytime when I see a beautiful hand-raised bascined with a bar grill on it. Historic accuracy gives way to physical necessity. At the same time, historic accuracy and scholarship are highly regarded. > Of couse, we don't hit quite as hard as SCA folk. "Calibration is high in Crown Tournament." |
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