Everyone should become a thrower now!!
e: What Saul was saying about bunnyhopping and (accidentally added by a bug) skiing in Tribes is very true. I almost never fall for the tricks where a 2h will miss you with an overhead and drag it to your feet, or a stab that they miss you but manage to drag onto you. It just seems so obvious now. But these tricks are useful against newer players. If I get hit by it, it's obviously my own fault.
In ANY game, the player who understands the game mechanics more will often be better.
It seems most people in this thread just want "realistic" swinging and blocking. As in simple attack and blocking situations and no trickery or deception. IMO one of the most intense things in this game is fighting multiple opponents at once and killing them all without taking a single scratch. This requires some "trickery" however.