Man at Arms: Art of War

[cranefly]

DM even got categorized by the statistician guy.

All hail, DM!

Categorized?  Or did you mean cauterized?

I remember how, back in the day (at Wing Lam Kung Fu School), DM would be doing a straight sword set, and suddenly he would just cut himself -- not by mistake but with a mischievous Bruce Lee grin.  And then, shouting, "Sanguine!" he would continue with his form.  Sifu would always be watching with a slightly disapproving look, and when DM finished, Sifu would say, "Mop."  That was me.  I was Mop.  I had to go out there with a mop and bucket and clean up the blood.

That's how I first learned the straight sword set, by the way -- following DM's blood trails.  I figured out the pattern of the movements -- straight lines and to the corners -- from the trail, as well as the order of it all based on the dryness or freshness of the blood.  I even got to the point where I could deduce sword cuts, stabs, and blocks from tiny deviations in the blood trail.

Anyway, a belated thank you to DM for first teaching me that straight sword set.