Silver

What is it with Silver?

What's the deal? I don't get it. It's an awful lot of overweight guys, who aren't skilled enough to do proper medieval swordwork, flouncing about looking camp isn't it?

Is it because it is written in English? That must make it easier to interpret right?

Maybe it's because he clearly doesn't like rapiers. No-one with any sense likes them do they?

Is it just that he tells you if you do what he says then you'll be better than everyone else?

Or is it just that people are hooked by the idea that if they do Silver then they are in fact a proper English Gentleman?

If they quote George's xenephobic rants they can pretend that they get to sit at a small table on a hill being served fine roast beef by their butler, while directing a battle in the valley down below?

They can dust off their nylon dinner jacket once a year and drink port with their friends and imagine they really are the last bastion of the British Empire.

Of course I might be wrong.

Silver may indeed describe a wonderful martial art.

But most Silver practitioners don't. They just bore us with the same few tired old quotes and same few ineffective moves.

Take your cheap tweed and leave the fighting to those of us who want to do it properly.