it cheapens it because it allows you to insult someone and serve them an injustice. its like this insanity that is "upwards" sports. this blight was conjured up at some church in which they bought the notion that everyone has a right to be a winner. hell no. only those that can do certain things have the opportunity to win. when you say "sure ill take that, youre just a little girl" you do nothing but an injustice to that person for accepting, and rewarding, failure.
do i expect a "little girl" to hit me as hard as "duke gigantor"? no. but i expect her to hit me with a good shot. anything she can throw beyond that is gravy and all but it has no bearing on whether i take her shot or not. good is good no matter who throws it or when.
now here is the problem in real terms robert. you reward the "little girl" for her substandard shot because you think she needs your help to make her feel good (the kill thrill mentality). so she is led to believe that her tap shot is a good one and she is never given the opportunity to actually learn to throw a true "telling" blow. then she shows up all smiles at a tourney and she faces me. she throws her little tap shot and i miss the block. she pauses, and i blast her (not an excessive blow but i bet i hit her a whole lot harder than you do based on your opinion that she needs to be given special considerations). now she thinks im a cheater for not taking her tap shot that you always take from her, and she thinks im a thug for hitting her with a solid blow. poor girl, all confused because someone thought she was too weak too frail too needy for good feelings and too dumb to understand the game.
now look at it from my side. i would take her and enforce the fact that this is a contact sport. i would work with her to teach her how to throw powerful blows, at least as much as she can throw them. if she simply can not throw enough power i might look at a different role. maybe a spear? maybe a bow (with my training she would only shoot face grilles and archers)? maybe a harp? who knows, something would make her happy if she cant fight equally. and thats the key. she must be at least my equal before she has earned the right to step on our field. there is always a stick that says "you must be this tall to ride this ride". sometimes you have to explain to them that they just arent big enough. but even children understand that, in time, they can ride that ride.
tell them the truth, they arent as weak as our grandfathers thougth they were.
regards
logan
ps i have a female squire and my lady is a fighter, so anyone that wants to complain about what i think can speak with them.
Robert P. Norwalt wrote:dukelogan wrote: its just as bad as the guy who takes a light shot from a girl. it tarnishes the purity of our sport.
***I don't feel that way at all. Some girls, lady's, woman, and a few of the "leprechaun" fellers can't hit inside my calibration when I'm "stoked". So I say to them, "let me feel your "killer" shot", and by this I am trying to help them out if I can? I don't feel this tarnishes or cheapens anything. I think it makes it so some 70lb., girl can get the trill of a kill now and then. And I think they deserve it, especially if they "get me first". It's a quasi sport, but we don't have fair "divisions", so it's the thickest biggest, most talented, sometimes going up against folks way smaller, way weaker, and even way slower. So why would that hurt the purity of a Tourney?
man that irked me pretty bad but i had only been playing for two years at the time. i fought in the next two crowns and refused to change anything about the way i fought. i won the next two. many years later i won a few more and i have kept my calibration consistant.
