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Old 09-17-2013, 11:59 AM   #39
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Default Re: So I dropped my sword... how do I pick it up (in combat)

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Originally Posted by Peter V. Dell'Orto View Post
The toe flip is -5; routinely pulling that off in a fight is cinematic, but it's not impossible to do. Just hard.
Jugglers do this with dropped clubs (a "kickup"), and some of them can do it routinely, but usually no one's trying to kill them.

Is anyone going to spend the time to learn to do this in a fight, when they could be training at something else? That's what makes me think of this as cinematic: not that it can only be done in movies, but that in real life, who is going to bother teaching such a technique?
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