Sounds reasonable to me! Well, you should know that if you're ever in a life-or-death situation and want to do anything more than look threatening, you'll have to ditch the fencer's stance. The advantage of the dagger is that you can get up close and personal with it and stab away! Toss propriety out the window and invade some personal space.

[ He pats the hilt of his sword. ]

Especially if your opponent's got a longer weapon. A sword's not much use if you have no room to use it.