A two-handed claymore, purporting to be Wallace's, which may contain original metal from his sword blade, was kept by the Scottish kings and is displayed as a relic in the Wallace Monument.

Tapping may be performed either one-handed or two-handed.

Hence a piece of music may shift between two-handed ( with bracket ) and one-handed ( without bracket ) layouts during the course of the piece.

Terms classifying swords as " great ", " long ", " broad ", " bastard ", " small ", " short " or " two-handed " have different meanings in different contexts and may be ambiguous.

The term two-handed sword, used as a general term, may refer to any large sword designed to be used primarily with two hands:

A rather long tang is fitted to many examples, indicating they may have had a longer handle for two-handed use.

Dussacks and falchion, two-handed sword, cut and thrust sword, gladius, Viking sword and rapier wasters are not widely available from commercial vendors, but may be special ordered or hand-crafted.

It may be imagined that the length of the two-handed falx allowed it to be wielded with great force, the point piercing helmets and the blade splitting shields-it was said to be capable of splitting a shield in two at a single blow.

Different manual alphabets may be used, such as the one-handed ASL alphabet ( the receiver places their hand over the back of the hand of the signer ) or the two-handed manual alphabet, which is often used in a form adapted for deafblind communication, known as the Deafblind alphabet, in which letters are produced onto palm of the receiver's hand.

The ricassos of two-handed swords may terminate with flukes, which protect the hand gripping the ricasso.

INTERCHI ' 93 published a study by Matias, MacKenzie and Buxton showing that people who have already learned to touch-type can quickly recover 50 to 70 % of their two-handed typing speed.

Throughout history two-handed swords have generally been less common than their one-handed counterparts, one exception being their common use in Japan.

No matter which grip is used, most forehands are generally executed with one hand holding the racket, but there have been fine players with two-handed forehands.

Their primary weapon was the two-handed Danish battleaxe, although every man would have carried a sword as well.

Bk1. 79 ) describes the weight of the armor worn by the ' princes and most distinguished persons ' made ' it difficult for such as have been overthrown by the charge of the enemy to regain their feet ' The long two-handed kontos lance, the primary melee weapon of the Sarmatians, was unusable in these conditions.

It was said to be a two-handed sword that made a circle like an arc of rainbow when swung, and to have the power to slice the tops off hills and slaughter an entire host.

So we thus have " great sword " terms that have two meanings, 1 ) a two-handed and 2 ) an early modern military sword:

Angle grinders typically have an adjustable guard and a side-handle for two-handed operation.

Tomas Haake of Meshuggah and Dave Konopka ( Ian Williams ' bandmate in Battles ) have both named What Burns Never Returns as one of their favorite albums, and guitarist Marnie Stern has cited a video of a Don Caballero performance as the inspiration behind her extensive usage of two-handed tapping.

On the frieze, almost all the Dacians that are armed, have shields and therefore cannot be using a two-handed falx.

The end section begins with a series of rapid two-handed tapping triads that have a classical like structure and eventually finishes with a repeated classical cadence followed by sound effects generated by a Univox EC-80 echo unit.

The use of swordsmanship on the battlefield in Korea dates as early as the Three Kingdoms period, where sword techniques using a two-handed sword are illustrated in a book named Bonguk Geombeop, believed to have been authored during the Silla dynasty

No matter which grip is used, most forehands are generally executed with one hand holding the racquet, but there have been fine players with two-handed forehands.

Since the 70s, juniors have been taught two-handed backhands more often than the one-handed backhand.

* However, One-handed backhands have some other important advantages over two-handed backhands:

No matter which grip is used, most forehands are generally executed with one hand holding the racquet, but there have been fine players with two-handed forehands.

His explanation is that he was inspired to use two-handed tapping after hearing the fluid left-hand only pull-offs in Jimmy Page's guitar solo for " Heartbreaker ", and expanded this technique by adding his right hand finger ( s ) out of necessity in reaching higher notes.

Steve was inspired to do a two-handed variation of a crossing of the arm trick performed by Ron Lubman.

Knox acted as his bodyguard, bearing a two-handed sword in order to defend him.

Lynch's guitar work in " Turn Up The Radio ", featuring a distinctive two-handed, fretboard-tapping technique, won him the " Guitar Solo of the Year " award from Guitar Player magazine in 1985.

Wrapping both arms around the opponent's extended arm and forcing him down to the dohyo by way of one's shoulder ( two-handed arm twist down ).

The fully armoured Viking raider would wear an iron helmet and a maille hauberk, and fight with a combination of axe, sword, shield, spear or great " Danish " two-handed axe, although the typical raider would be unarmoured, carrying only a shield and spear ; swords and axes were much less common.

Most clubs are small enough to be swung in one hand although two-handed variants are known.

* Short-sword ( arming sword ), backsword --> bastard sword, broadsword ( two-handed sword ) --> long sword --> two-hander (" great sword " although this is a recently coined term ).

The main difference with the beidao is that the nandao is mostly used two-handed due to its larger amount of weight, and it has a large metal crossguard useful in deflecting blows and hooking the opponent's weapon ; also, although it is single-edged, the nandao is not curved like the northern broadsword.

He writes: " BACKHAND — Budge was best, with Kovacs, Rosewall and Connors in the next rank ( although, as I've said, Connors ' ' backhand ' is really a two-handed forehand ).

From the earliest times knights and mounted men-at-arms had frequently dismounted to handle enemies they could not overcome on horseback, such as in the Battle of the Dyle ( 891 ) and the Battle of Bremule ( 1119 ), but after 1350s this trend became more marked with the dismounted men-at-arms fighting as super-heavy infantry with two-handed swords and poleaxes.

The Húscarls, the elite guard of King Cnut ( and later King Harold II ) were armed with two-handed axes which could split shields or metal helmets with ease.

The longer two-handed handle could be used as a lever to lock the opponent's arm if necessary.

Elliot raised 71. 0 kilograms without difficulty whereas Jensen, who had injured his shoulder trying to raise 112. 5 kilograms in the two-handed event, could only manage 57. 0 kilograms and Britain's first Olympic champion was crowned.

For example an experienced Landsknecht could be designated a Doppelsöldner, an armoured soldier who served as the backbone for the formation and in addition to the pike as more recent recruits, they could also be alternatively employed wielding a halberd or partisan, or, more famously, a Zweihänder ( literally: " Two-hander "), a two-handed sword as long as 180 cm ( 6 ft ).

Elizabethans used descriptive terms such as " short ", " bastard ", and " long " which emphasized the length of the blade, and " two-handed " for any sword that could be wielded as such.

It is highly doubtful that these two-handed swords were used to chop off the point of pikes ; however, the two-handed sword was an ideal weapon for protecting the standard bearer or a breach since a Doppelsöldner armed with one could fend off many attackers by using moulinets.

However, it left its user vulnerable because, being a two-handed weapon, the warrior could not also make use of a shield.

He held the weapon two-handed, left nearer the prongs, so that he could parry his enemy's strikes with its shaft and strike with both ends.

Wielded two-handed, the weapon could land powerful blows.

The sword could be used with a one-handed or two-handed grip and had a blade that was usually around in length, with the overall length of the sword approximately and likely never over.

But a new wave of players, such as Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg or Mats Wilander, started to show the world that two-handed backhands could also offer major advantages.