Question About Hoplites

[Sarcasm]

did i say that katanas rule? NO, i dislike katanas especially.... katana's were the weapons that millions of japanese people killed each other with...by far not the perfect weapon if you asked me. i was meerly asking wether it is acctualy possible and considering i have studied staff/spear it just seemed a bad way to use a weapon. but if you would like to go on assuming that your preconcieved idea that people that like the katana as a weapon are foolhardy, then by all means do it somewhere else, especially in a topic where im meerly asking a question.

anyway thanks john
i just didnt think it would work but ill have to investigate it more.
(btw i dont spend all of my time looking at the huge ammounts of ancient art)

No, you were not asking a question. Your entire first post was built around how this form of Western combat technique which was used for over a millennia was illogical, impossible to use without two hands (what are you even talking about? Spears were used one-handed the majority of the times) and only for people with an odd musculature.

Even if you weren't being somewhat insulting towards the team for representing it in its mod, or towards the millions of people who fought and died in this manner, I think I'm just tired of people who practice Japanese/Chinese/Korean martial arts, thinking they've found the end-all, superior form of combat. I'm especially not fond of Westerners who just throw their entire martial heritage out the window, and proclaim to the heavens just how these weapons and combat forms are superior to everything else.

Reminds me of a time this Kenjutsu master had all his pupils over at an arms convention, and he proudly chopped a pair of bamboos with his katana as the crowd behind and his own students cheered on. At one point these 2 guys, who were fencing with German bastards swords in the background, became somewhat angry. So one of these guys jumps over the fence, approaches the bamboos that were all set up for more chopping, and proceeded to do the same as the Japanese guy and cut through all of them. Did I mention that the bastard swords were dull? Heh, funny, ain't it?