So today I had a barbeque with some friends, which was awesome. Burgers, Doritos, and Mountain Dew - tasty yum yum. Anyways, what made this awesome was the fact that afterwards, we went boffing. That is, we stood around for around 2 1/2 hours chasing each other and hitting each other with large foam swords - aka boffs, and boffing.

We had 3 types of swords - longswords (one-handed, sort of long, middling in weight), a greatsword (two-handed massive death havoc, heavy but slow if used improperly) and the wonderful dual-short-swords (fast, and excellent for blocking) which I loved. I ended up dual-wielding the shortswords most of the time, but also was pretty effective with the greatsword due to my odd style of holding it to my hip, blade pointed directly backwards, making it difficult to see the weapon, and hard to predict any sort of attack I'd make.

So, in a word, smacking friends with large foam swords is an awesome fun time.