Originally posted by Sin Harvest
[b]How the f*ck would you know what I would or would not do in a duel??!! I've been studying fencing and martial arts for twenty years, which is longer than you've been alive, and I can assure you that I never have and never would grab someone's arm in a duel. Have you ever actually formally studied duelling, and if so, for how long? (and by that I do not mean swinging a toy lightsaber around in your bedroom, but actually attending fencing classes)8 years so far. And what the hell does fencing (which in no way will you be killed) has anything to do with lightsaber fighting where the outcome is usually someone dead. In fencing you don't have to worry about that. So stop whinning about Anakin being smart to use physical attacks in combat. Come down from your cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and get over it. [/B]
Okay, so you've been studying since alsmost the same age I started, that's fair enough. I've still been studying 12 years longer than you have, so I think it's safe to say my knowledge of the subject is better. I actually went to what in America would be considered a 'posh British school', where traditional European fencing was taught as part of the compulsory PE curriculum, and by the time I was 12, I was able to fence as well as our fencing coach. What does it have to do with it... Well, the techniques and principles are still the same. I seriously doubt that you have ever been in an actual 'duel to the death', (to be honest, I wouldn't believe you if you said you had) and neither have I, but that doesn't mean I don't know the differences between the two
or the similarities. No, in fencing you don't have to worry about someone trying to kill you, but, in the RotS duel between Dooku and Anakin, he thought that Anakin was going to become a Sith General, so he knew he did not have to kill Anakin, and Palpatine had said he would not let Dooku be killed, therefore, Dooku would not have looked at it (initially) as a 'duel to the death'.