09-26-2006, 06:15 AM
On the contary. The tight grip can be very versitile if used in the correct way. If one use a loose grip the sword can move in your hand as you want. From a "classic" all finger grip to the handshake grip, even griping only the pommel and ad a few centimeters of thrust-range.
Here is a topic on myarmoury.com about the ideas on griping a vikingsword where I got the inspiration for my testing of this.
http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic ... light=grip
Here is a topic on myarmoury.com about the ideas on griping a vikingsword where I got the inspiration for my testing of this.
http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic ... light=grip