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Weaponry; Wednesday, Second Period [01/12].
It had taken a little bit of convincing, but Rosa had managed to sway Amaya a little for the setting of today's class, which was far more 'abandoned warehouse' than 'Ren Faire tournament grounds, though still with a good amount of practice dummies (all wearing black ninja masks like B-movie criminals because Rosa really did need to lay off the late-night shitty action movie marathons) and a few tables with a wide variety of small bladed weapons available to them.
"Welcome back, everyone," Amaya greeted the class with a nod. "Now that we're in week two, that means we can finally start getting into the good stuff, and the good stuff is actual weapons! Starting this week with..."
Amaya had barely trailed off before Rosa yanked one of the weapons out of the wood of the table, threw it past her co-teacher, until it struck firmly in the center of the chest of one of the dummies with a slight wobble at it stuck.
"Daggers," Rosa concluded helpfully.
"That's right," said Amaya, trying not to look amused and not doing a very good job of it, "daggers. Now, dagger is really just a fancy word for a knife you use for thrusting or stabbing, or in some cases...." SHe gestured a hand toward the dummy, "...throwing. You'll almost always find a nice sharp pointy end and typically two bladed edges on your run-of-the-mill dagger, and they're very often used for close combat, although, again, with enough skill they work as a range weapon in a pinch, as well."
"Plus," said Rosa, taking a moment to pull a dagger out from....somewhere? Even if you were paying close attention, she was in rather tight jeans and a t-shirt, so it didn't look like she'd have many places to have hidden a weapon, and yet.... "They're small, so they're easy to conceal and carry."
"Typically, your shape of a dagger involves a short blade with a sharply tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and usually, as I said, two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so. Most daggers'll also feature a full crossguard to keep the hand from riding forwards onto the sharpened blade edges, because no one likes that. Of course, there are exceptions to the design, like, for example," she plucked up two weapons, one in each hand, from the table, "a rondel or a pesh-kabz, which just have one bladed edge, or perhaps even," she switch them out with a third, "a stiletto, which has no edge, and is primarily just for the stabbiness of it all.
"Now, the earliest daggers you'd be likely to see were made out of materials like flint or bone and ivory, and, like most things, they took a turn toward copper and bronze before people started to really figure out how to fashion stuff out of iron and steel. And while they were a useful tool, especially when hunting for food, many times, these weapons were often ceremonial, sometimes symbols of a certain status or to be used in certain sacred rites and what have you, but, eventually, it works its way into more common use among the common man with more advances in the technology that allowed smiths to produce them at a larger scale than before. At some point, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone went around carrying a dagger of some sort, because they're useful not only as weapons, but for just about near everything! In some places, even, the dagger was the only weapon commoners were allowed to carry about their person, so you can see why they became popular, and why it also became pretty popular to dress your daggers up and make them almost more fancy than they were functional, as a bit of a status symbol, typically among people who wouldn't know how to use them if their lives depended on it...."
"Which," Rosa contributed, with a snort, "it usually did."
"Over time," Amaya contributed, "while daggers are seen as a symbol for a good deal of fighting ranks, it's also earned a bit of a reputation as a favored weapon among theives and brigands, in part due to its stealth-like properties, its ubiquiousness, and its versatility. One's ability to conceal the weapon and spring it on a person unsuspectingly earned it a reputation for being a bit of a sly, deceptive weapon, used by sly, deceptive people. Lots of unseemly assassinations or murky assaults in dark alleys'll do that to a weapon; a bit harder to spring a long sword or a battle axe on an unsuspecting victim, I should think! And, typically, nowadays, if someone's carrying around a dagger, unless they're in a particular field," with a nod of note to her coteacher and her copious amounts of daggers, "it's for its utilitarian purposes rather than its defensive ones."
"Or just because they're a try-hard edgy teen who thinks having a switchblade makes them cool," added Rosa.
Who had definitely been a try-hard edgy teen who thought having a swithblade made her cool.
"So, that's enough about the history aspects of it," Amaya offered. "Pretty basic, pretty broad, because a dagger's just one of those weapons that's so logical that it makes its way into just about everything, but if you have any specific questions, I'll be more than happy to go into a little more detail. And if not, I'll be handing you over to Detective Diaz, who will go over with you some of the different ways to use a dagger in combat, and then you'll have the chance to give it a try with the practice dummies yourself."
"Welcome back, everyone," Amaya greeted the class with a nod. "Now that we're in week two, that means we can finally start getting into the good stuff, and the good stuff is actual weapons! Starting this week with..."
Amaya had barely trailed off before Rosa yanked one of the weapons out of the wood of the table, threw it past her co-teacher, until it struck firmly in the center of the chest of one of the dummies with a slight wobble at it stuck.
"Daggers," Rosa concluded helpfully.
"That's right," said Amaya, trying not to look amused and not doing a very good job of it, "daggers. Now, dagger is really just a fancy word for a knife you use for thrusting or stabbing, or in some cases...." SHe gestured a hand toward the dummy, "...throwing. You'll almost always find a nice sharp pointy end and typically two bladed edges on your run-of-the-mill dagger, and they're very often used for close combat, although, again, with enough skill they work as a range weapon in a pinch, as well."
"Plus," said Rosa, taking a moment to pull a dagger out from....somewhere? Even if you were paying close attention, she was in rather tight jeans and a t-shirt, so it didn't look like she'd have many places to have hidden a weapon, and yet.... "They're small, so they're easy to conceal and carry."
"Typically, your shape of a dagger involves a short blade with a sharply tapered point, a central spine or fuller, and usually, as I said, two cutting edges sharpened the full length of the blade, or nearly so. Most daggers'll also feature a full crossguard to keep the hand from riding forwards onto the sharpened blade edges, because no one likes that. Of course, there are exceptions to the design, like, for example," she plucked up two weapons, one in each hand, from the table, "a rondel or a pesh-kabz, which just have one bladed edge, or perhaps even," she switch them out with a third, "a stiletto, which has no edge, and is primarily just for the stabbiness of it all.
"Now, the earliest daggers you'd be likely to see were made out of materials like flint or bone and ivory, and, like most things, they took a turn toward copper and bronze before people started to really figure out how to fashion stuff out of iron and steel. And while they were a useful tool, especially when hunting for food, many times, these weapons were often ceremonial, sometimes symbols of a certain status or to be used in certain sacred rites and what have you, but, eventually, it works its way into more common use among the common man with more advances in the technology that allowed smiths to produce them at a larger scale than before. At some point, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone went around carrying a dagger of some sort, because they're useful not only as weapons, but for just about near everything! In some places, even, the dagger was the only weapon commoners were allowed to carry about their person, so you can see why they became popular, and why it also became pretty popular to dress your daggers up and make them almost more fancy than they were functional, as a bit of a status symbol, typically among people who wouldn't know how to use them if their lives depended on it...."
"Which," Rosa contributed, with a snort, "it usually did."
"Over time," Amaya contributed, "while daggers are seen as a symbol for a good deal of fighting ranks, it's also earned a bit of a reputation as a favored weapon among theives and brigands, in part due to its stealth-like properties, its ubiquiousness, and its versatility. One's ability to conceal the weapon and spring it on a person unsuspectingly earned it a reputation for being a bit of a sly, deceptive weapon, used by sly, deceptive people. Lots of unseemly assassinations or murky assaults in dark alleys'll do that to a weapon; a bit harder to spring a long sword or a battle axe on an unsuspecting victim, I should think! And, typically, nowadays, if someone's carrying around a dagger, unless they're in a particular field," with a nod of note to her coteacher and her copious amounts of daggers, "it's for its utilitarian purposes rather than its defensive ones."
"Or just because they're a try-hard edgy teen who thinks having a switchblade makes them cool," added Rosa.
Who had definitely been a try-hard edgy teen who thought having a swithblade made her cool.
"So, that's enough about the history aspects of it," Amaya offered. "Pretty basic, pretty broad, because a dagger's just one of those weapons that's so logical that it makes its way into just about everything, but if you have any specific questions, I'll be more than happy to go into a little more detail. And if not, I'll be handing you over to Detective Diaz, who will go over with you some of the different ways to use a dagger in combat, and then you'll have the chance to give it a try with the practice dummies yourself."
Sign In - Weaponry, 01/12.
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Listen to the Lecture - Weaponry, 01/12.
Class Activity: Daggers - Weaponry, 01/12.
"Take some time," she said, "pick out out a dagger of your choice," and there were plenty of different ones to choose from!, "and give the techniques a try on the practice dummies, and if anyone wants to practice the defense techniques, I'll work with you on that individually. If there aren't any questions, we can get to work."
Re: Class Activity: Daggers - Weaponry, 01/12.
“Oops,” she blinked as she stared down at the dummy.
Re: Class Activity: Daggers - Weaponry, 01/12.
"I'd choose the Parrying Dagger" he said slowly. "I... I like the rapier type swords mostly, and this is what would be used with those. It's also the best for... for self defense when using rapier type blades."
Re: Class Activity: Daggers - Weaponry, 01/12.
Talk to the Teachers - Weaponry, 01/12.
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OOC - Weaponry, 01/12.
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