specifics in Spear fighting combat

[PMBardunias]

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.

I wonder if it was a case of being too much of a good thing. You see this today with Tae kwon do blackbelts. It seems they are a dime a dozen and can be had simply by dancing the right moves. But Tae kwon do is a brutal fighting art when done right. Maybe so many poorly trained hoplomachia teachers abounded that the whole profession was sullied.