specifics in Spear fighting combat

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Haha,very nice passage.I think everyone would recognize himself as a child in these words...Isn't it very nice to hack everything you see,without being caught? :lol:
By the way,this is the point of Plato,too. That advanced teaching of how to handle weapons is useless. Two accounds from two high class Athenians of the same time,who had military experience. I wonder,how spread was the teaching of hoplomachia actually? It either was not spread at all,as those who could pay for it had the same views with those two gentlemen,or it was so spread that both of them needed to write against it,by ridiculing it and shoeing it pointless.
Khaire
Giannis