"I agree that spears will have a high incidence of resurgence. This, simply because they are much easier to make. Some designs do not even require forging. If in Zpoc, one can scavenge materials for very effective spears in a fraction of the time it takes to get materials for swords. The manufacturing time is a minutes as opposed to hours.
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"This is where situational awareness and practicing your draw really pays off. Most concealed carry confrontations happen at that distance.

My boss at the pizza place was a third degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do and we frequently disagreed about knife fighting. I've never seen anything to convince me that there is an effective unarmed defense against a blade."

"i am a WKMA cedrtidfied black belt krav magist. there is a lot of defend against this knife/gun/club/grenade/et ectera training in krav maga. there is also a lot trainnig in the use of improvised weapons, knives, and clubs. there isn't, for real practical reasons, a truly safe way to disarm someone who has a weapon. be it a blade or a pistol, disarms require a lot of risk and most people miss the point that when it comes time to disarm you dont simply walk into a situation where you can take someone's weapon away. top end training also includes scenario training so you can realize when such a situation presents itself. if you have to stop and think it through you are probably already way too late to do it.

it is especially hard when you go through the scenario training and the other guy is moving as well, trying to get you before you get him, and you collide with each others' movements and intents. the organized elegance of martial arts is lost in that moment.

the heat battle, i guess"

"And see I still question the value of that training. I don't feel like you can truely emulate the murderous intent of a fight like that. You can use dummy knives, but there's always going to be some level of fear you're going to hurt your training partner."