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Originally Posted by Kloster
Of course it is feasible. I just told that parrying with your attack weapon means removing it from it's direction, and is slower than dodging or parrying with another weapon, wether dagger, main gauche, shield, lantern or cape.
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Neither is true. In fact, fencing parries often involve exactly removing the opponents weapon in the same process as the attack; you beat the weapon out of the way and follow throw with a cut or thrust. Dodging by its nature _can't_ be faster than that, because you're moving more mass--often your whole body.
Care to give a citation to two weapon technique being the dominant one during the fencing period? I don't question it occured--it obviously did, but much of that was because you could do a _bind_ and still attack that way, something you can't do with a single, non-flexible weapon. But I have no evidence its actually superior for parrying, per se, unlike the obvious advantage present with a shield.