[quote=@Sathanas Rex] Oh dear, I've offended you. I'm sorry. I promise I'm not trying to manipulate this fight, and the lack of detail is an issue, I haven't been arena-ing for too long. The attack is fast in execution but can be parried. It's slow to recover from. Does that make sense? The point of this fight was to help me get a hang of how the Arena works though, not playing a situation in character. I have certainly been reminded, repeatedly, to keep details in mind, and will do so in my next fights. [/quote] Meh, I'm not offended as far as I can tell, you haven't insulted me personally, I was just expecting a different sort of fight and was a little perturbed that you controlled my character in the opening post (that isn't generally done.) I understand that a large overarm slash is slow to recover from, the same for a lunge, but I've tried to (apparently unsuccessfully) describe a quick darting in-and-out cutting attack which sacrifices -some- recovery speed for power, I don't think this should necessarily be something you should describe as an untenable situation for my character, at least certainly not in OOC. As it seems like you have real life experience, I'm sure you know more about sword fighting than me, but I know some things about debating, and your evidence thus far is what I would consider anecdotal.