The competition was a speed and handiness show jumping competition (faults at fences will be converted into seconds; this seconds will be added to the time of the competitor).
Artillery power was therefore given second priority to handiness and to frontal armour, including a prolongation of the belt armour to reinforce the ram.
Are these artifacts evidence of an isolated outburst of the type of handiness we share with chimpanzees, or of a slowly evolving -- and eventually planet-altering -- behaviour?
During his years inside, he kept up a punishing fitness regime, developing huge 18-inch biceps and a fearsome reputation for his handiness with his fists.
