Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160715033136/@comment-26397825-20160917001113

I don't think you realise just how much stress that would put on your ankles. It would be a steady aura drain every time you tried to swing your sword as your aura protects your ankles from the damage trying to swing that much metal around via your feet would do.

Think of how much just rolling your ankle hurts. Now imagine that you are rolling your ankle with 5+ kilos of metal trying to drag it further in each direction.

Not to mention that you'd have to basically be extremely flexible to get the full range of motion when trying to attack using the swords, which puts stress on other muscles. While training will reduce this stress, there'll still be a ton of it.

And controlling the sword would be extremely hard. The reason why hands are good for using swords is that you use the entire arm to control the sword. The wrist does fine adjustments, but the arm is what does the swings. On your legs, you'd lose a lot of the range of movement as your legs simply dont turn or bend the right way for sword play (the elbow is a wonderful thing that allows your hand to turn almost 360 degrees, the knee is an awkward thing that allows your foot to turn up to 180 degrees), and your ankle doesn't quite have the same range of movement as your wrist so your fine motor controls would be reduced as well.