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I have have 27 swords all around my house as decoration. I have rapiers, sabers, katanas, longswords, daggers, all of them, and they're real swords that can actually be used to kill people with. I've always liked swords and the history and technique behind them.
The problem is that I can't use them for shit. As much as I've always wanted to go to a HEMA school and learn the art of sword fighting, I'v never lived close to one, the nearest to me is a 90 minute drive a couple towns over.
I've played with them and could do some fancy tricks that are useless for actual combat, but an actual HEMA student would laugh at me. I've been doing Muay Thai for 6 years so I'm well versed in hand to hand combat, but with a sword I'm shit.

I absolutely would; because I got bullied a lot back in middle school and high school. In middle school it was more physical, while in highschool it was more verbal. I was nerdy and geeky (still am) so I was deemed as being uncool by the majority low IQ Latino/Mestizo school demographics (whom mostly dropped out), and thus, was worthy of bullying.

I was also out of shape, weak, short (still am), had very low self-esteem and confidence, and didn't know how to fight. Of course, the bullies were mostly male, and I felt that they did so sometimes out of spite due to girls flirting with me. Me being bullied turned girls off, and as a result, they quickly lost interest in me once they witnessed it. It was a kind of social proof that they didn't want to be seen with someone uncool and bullied a lot.

Nowadays, I'm super strong, practice half a dozen martial arts, am in the Army Infantry, and have accomplished a ton since then, so I have sky high confidence. I've gone through a complete transformation since then, and it wouldn't and hasn't happened nowadays.