I'm not left-handed, either

[sovay]

Lightsabers out, everyone. Or just grab the nearest pointy object and have at it for a moment in his memory: Bob Anderson, the Olympic fencer and sword master who gave us Darth Vader and the bladework of everyone from Inigo Montoya to the Fellowship of the Ring. If you thought Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) had the best swashbuckling since Errol Flynn, he was why—his first work on film was fight-directing Flynn in The Master of Ballantrae (1953). Zorro and the Three Musketeers, too. And a couple of Bonds. Duncan MacLeod. There was only one.

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[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

She...arched, and consequently is the only member of our shared gender able to pull me up one-handed from sitting. It is either extremely impressive or effing scary, I guess depending on which side of the fight you're on.

(I have never seen her at archery, just felt the long-reaching effects.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

It is either extremely impressive or effing scary, I guess depending on which side of the fight you're on.

I'd pick impressive, myself. Then again, I grew up round members of the germane gender who could pick up a hay bale and throw it with one hand.

I have never seen her at archery...

That's a pity. (Not that I ever have done, either, it's just that a good archer is a pleasure to watch.)