How to Cut Off Legs in Amtgard RPG

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"Hi, my name's Austin Harmon, but out here I'm known as Forest Evergreen. And I'm here on expertvillage.com to teach you about the game of Amtgard. If you get hit in the leg, the standard protocol is to put that knee on the ground. There's two reasons for that. You have to put the knee of the dead leg--what you call your dead leg--that knee on the ground for two reasons. The first one is, if I was to have that leg up, it can actually then block other target area that otherwise would be a valid location. Because another hit to the same leg won't kill me. It's too easy to leg somebody and stand back and keeping hitting me in the same dead leg, so we don't allow two leg shots to kill a player. It has to be a different limb or if you get hit in the same one twice that would count, but any other limb after the leg or the body would kill you. The other reason is, if you were to put your leg out like this when you died, then there's the risk that if somebody were to trip and fall and land on your knee that pressure could dislocate or actually break your kneecap. And again, we're all about safety in this game. So by having your knee down where it's not flexed out, you are able to absorb impact better and it also doesn't block a target area. It's just safer that way. So I was having to fight from my knee because I was injured. I could have crawled slowly by pushing off on one leg and then brining my dead leg forward, but when you're down to just one pole arm you don't do a whole log of moving because you want to keep people at bay with that long reach and hope they don't charge in on you."