JaM wrote:
"with the overarm (besides the obvious weight of sauroter issue, as he is holding it a bit more forward, but thats on all three grips) ending point is quite down below, as your own palm would practically force it down if thumb aims back.
Look at where the faces and eyes of the hoplite reenactor is. Take a straight edge and draw a line from the face to the pole on the left. Now tell me why a hoplite would use an overhand thrust to target what appears to be the belly region of a target? The low angle alone takes a good bit of distance away from the thrust. Of the three tests only the bottom one has the thrust being conducted on anything like a straight line. I bet if you had the underhand grip low thrust aim at the face it would be a shorter distance. That test was conducted poorly, to say the least.
"with the overarm (besides the obvious weight of sauroter issue, as he is holding it a bit more forward, but thats on all three grips) ending point is quite down below, as your own palm would practically force it down if thumb aims back.
Look at where the faces and eyes of the hoplite reenactor is. Take a straight edge and draw a line from the face to the pole on the left. Now tell me why a hoplite would use an overhand thrust to target what appears to be the belly region of a target? The low angle alone takes a good bit of distance away from the thrust. Of the three tests only the bottom one has the thrust being conducted on anything like a straight line. I bet if you had the underhand grip low thrust aim at the face it would be a shorter distance. That test was conducted poorly, to say the least.
