Y'know, that Mega Man Sequelitis made a lot of sense and I praise it but Arin sometimes confuses tutorials that are helpful with tutorials that hold your hand.
Like yeah, controllers only have like twelve buttons and you can figure out what they do by pressing them but that doesn't mean that's all there is to the game. Not all games are Jump'n Shoot Man and not all tutorials are an insult to your intelligence.
I'm really quite sure that's an actually valid and used technique. The smaller contact area means more pressure, also swords usually have their centers of gravity towards the handle around the crossguard. By doing this the "fool" effectively converted his sword (a weapon really quite useless at getting through armor) into a warhammer (which were made specifically for getting through plate). Furthermore, the "fool" was likely supposed to wear gloves (if you've allready made the choice to walk through town with a sword, you might as well bring some gloves as well, much cheaper and lighter, also the dudes are clearly in an arena, so he actively decided to join in battle) against accidentally cutting his fingers (and even if not, getting cuts to your fingers is much preferable to being stabbed to death).
Dude actually know's what he's doing...
Source: I practise H.E.M.A. (Historical European Martial Arts), basically swordfighting.
Like yeah, controllers only have like twelve buttons and you can figure out what they do by pressing them but that doesn't mean that's all there is to the game. Not all games are Jump'n Shoot Man and not all tutorials are an insult to your intelligence.
Dude actually know's what he's doing...
Source: I practise H.E.M.A. (Historical European Martial Arts), basically swordfighting.