Re: [HIST] Japanese Culture shock

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Ryan Gill wrote:

> At 7:28 AM +0200 6/25/02, Derk Groeneveld wrote:
> >The katana was NOT designed to deal with plate armour. The european
sword
> >was designed to be able to deal with armour comparable to the
japanese
> >armour. And as for martial arts prowess, nothing I have seen so far
> >indicates that european martial arts and the training a knight
received
> >was at all inferior to the japanese stuff. Regardless what martial
arts
> >movies may have one believe ;)
>
> Everyone should know you don't use Samurai against knights (wrong
> time period).

*blink* Dead wrong on that one. Please go check how long the samurai
were
around for ;) Of course, making CONTACT is another matter.

Cheers,