[Dredj]

Thank you Triff for the explanations. I'm glad to hear from somebody who actually knows how to use a melee weapon and has fought with it using little protection. All the tournaments I've gone to were for people to show off their moves to their parents and friends.

It never helped that the people I played with never saw a real melee combat, either. So, we never had any real life experience to back up why the combat rounds were the way they were.

I always thought that a 2 second combat round would work to my tastes, as that looks like the kind of round that would work in a Hong Kong style action movie. But most of what you see in the modern-style Hong Kong movies (like of lot of Jackie Chan's) are the "rush in and pummel" kind of combat--even where weapons are used.