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How long did it take you to receive your sword? I ordered 3 months ago and it still hasn't been sent

Jikishinkage Ryu and Jigen Ryu they get massive forearms and shoulder from just suburi. But their suburi is insane.

Where did you get that stand

Thank you for the lesson and information... awesome.

Surprise! That’s a sneaky move right there

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All the videos in the Jedok Geom Techniques series are filmed from actual sparring bouts where the opponents are not aware I am trying to land these techniques. For this technique I had to do a stupid dance to get my opponent to lower his guard to land this technique. In all honesty, I am as surprised it worked as he is.

Looking at historical duels, daggers that were paired with pistols were typically around 9-13 inches in length. This is a good length for a "fighting" knife. Within the military, knives exceeding 7" in length are typically looked at as impractical for their needs, as said knife will more often than not be used more for utility than defense. Outside the home is iffy, but carrying a dagger this size within the home should be no problem at all. I would personally advocate for a sheath design that locks the blade in place until you place your hand on the opening with a programmable nfc ring, giving you sole discretion in terms of when you choose to draw it. I would also advocate for a tanto or wakizashi style system, as this would allow you to easily wear and remove it by simply feeding it through your belt loop(s).

Concious inaction carries the same weight of consequence as action. By all means, if a situation can be de-escalated without compromising yourself, then go for it. If it can't, then use whatever means neccesary to resolve it if their is an inevitable threat against your life/limb or the life/limb of another within proximity. If you can involve a sheriff, police officer, constable, ect. in that moment then absolutely do that. Too many officials though skirt their duty in protecting the public, so training for self-defence is more important than ever.

What blade are you using and who made it?

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Work on the edge alignment. You’ll get docked during testing for that in my experience.

True, now days people use katana not for killing, these folded steel is not good for fighting, but good for decoration especially the Damascus blade design. Better use not folded steel if you use for hard practicing , recommend use S5 shock steel from cloudhammer

It's kinda like a draw cut with a katana. In theory if you can dodge the incoming attack and draw cut you can kill instantly. But in practice it's near impossible to dodge an incoming sword swing by just side stepping it with no weapon. The only works here because the opponent is attacking the weapon and not the person which is bad form

I like wakizashis and I'm glad that you have so much detailed info on how to use them. Thanks!

The usual , critical issue for any sword blade is how well tempered, and how well quenched. These processes are critical to the strength and flexibility of the steel of which the blade is made. Failure in these two areas is usually lethal for a knife or sword blade.

It is the nature of technology to move uphill and improve. I have one " Katana " with a T-10 , tungsten reinforced blade. I certainly do not tend to regard it as mere " junk". T-10 is a strong tool steel and I'm not about to run my fingers or thumbs down the edge of this blade , in particular ! Much less any of the other blades I own.

About that first clip: I have heard about this group, they were called "Holmgang Hamburg" and yes, they are indeed from Germany. As far as I know, they were disbanded by a judicial decision, as they First: Veered far too much in the far right direction (i.e. regularly showing Wehrmacht/Nazi Symbolism in their YT videos, openly threatened antisemitic terrorism etc.) Second: Challenged/ threatened random people for sharp weapons duels Third: Finally ended up having a deadly accident in their sparring.

Not easy to pull off with the big sabre! Great work doing that at speed.

Hmm interessting..

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Speed. I am speed. For real though that was quick

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I understand the blade behind half sharpened as being problematic yet starting it as a disappointment is too strongly of a negative connotation. I was expecting to hear about warps, loose parts, low quality materials etc. But an issue over sharpening, something you are going to have to do any way is crazy to call something a disappointment over.

Unfortunately, I am seeing more and more of these videos espoiusing the PRC as a valid source for two-handed sabre items. Unfortunately I have yet to experience, first-hand, a quality sabre of Chinese manufacture that performs at the level represented. Its a simple matter of false advertizing. Make the item you say you are making or stop advertizing your materials. Period. Full-stop.

You need to slice not kick, and angle is between 45 and 60 degree

thanks bro

korean HEMA Joseon swordsmanship interpretation czcams.com/play/PLT_O0VTJFZDAPSDtpJeGXdi7NnHbSwQyc.html

Bruv have absolutely no idea what he's doing lol

1:24:37 Check out Dlatrex’s relatively recent video on pirates. I think the English pirates describe something similar

Impressive!

How much? I'll be in japan next week...

Where is the 'you are already dead' meme edit? 😄

That was so clean even in slow motion I barely caught it. Glad to see you're still posting man.

Never thought that we could adapt 제독검 in that way. It's splendid. How did you predict opponent's movement?

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I didn't believe it'd work, then I realized I actually pulled it off myself at my club when I was thinking of ways to use the zwerch in sparring. A committed zwerch targeting their lower opening when the opponent is in a high guard, together with a committed step with my right foot to the left (with the zwerch from right to left) means that even if the opponent stops it, I'm fairly well guarded by my blade and placement (and am reasonably able to work any number of followups, though mostly the 'opponent is hard' ones like zwerching to the other side). And the naive way to stop it just slides down my blade. In particular, it corresponds to the failer: "This is the text and the gloss of yet another play from the thwart-hew, and is called the failer 53 Whoever directs the failer well  From below, he hits[75] according to desire. Gloss. Note,[1] this is[76] with the failer all fencers who willingly displace become mislead and struck. Deploy the play thusly: When you come to him with the onset, so act as if you will strike[77] with a free over-hew[78] to his left side to the head, and steal-away[79] your sword with the hew and strike him with the thwart to the lower opening of his right side or left[80] (as stands pictured hereafter next to this).[81] Thus is he contacted and struck below according to [your] desire." My club and most others in HEMA usually teaches it as a high feint into a strike to the other side, but I noticed that if I don't strike necessarily with the time of the hand, then I have remarkable free reign to turn an apparent overhew into a lower-right (from my perspective) rising zwerch in the same motion - such a thing may also be called a failer, or at least it was how I interpreted it before lessons at the club! Like the one-handed leg snipe throw, it almost feels like a bit of a trick/one-shot pony, but it's nowhere near as compromising if it fails and falls under a number of working systems.

Thank you for the fight! It was great fun. Lots of learning for me from re-watching our exchanges. Recording fights is such a great learning tool and I should do it more!

Awesome stuff! Very jealous of the fun y’all have. Keep up the hard work

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Both of you did fantastic! Both Swords seem to be very similar in length and weight, so the wins on either side, I assume, were mostly due to skill. Do you spar with folks practicing other styles often, or is this a special occasion?

Some nice exchanges there 👍a bunch of these go to show how it is risky to go in fully committed against an opponent who has yet to commit. In these cases, one has few options and the opponent has many.

Can you make a video on binds in eastern swordsmanship or is there too little info on it?

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Im not an expert but after a few days looking for a good katana i think theres a lot of myths... I think today a 1 piece katana with 1060 steel and real hamon is good enough for almost every body but as i said im not an expert xd

I was looking for advice if I were to practice like in anime and swing the sword 10k times per day without rest for over a year. It doesn't seem like that's what you or most others do but that's what I was looking for when I clicked this. Try maybe doing a challenge like that and recording/uploading the progress day by day that would be interesting. I might do it as well ordering a wooden sword now to swing it 10k times a day

Much like "Absetzen" when using the longsword

The first reason for the claim that tama-hagane is essential for the production of Japanese swords is that it is easy to forge and weld. TAMA-HAGANE contains very low levels of harmful impurities, especially phosphorus and sulphur, compared to modern steel, making it less prone to cracking, and it has a high forgeability that enables it to withstand the intense repeated forging during sword making.

The best martial fencing is done outside of comps

Well I am not a beginner keep your blade pointed at my eyes if I get close put it my eyes don't take guards that let me get close you'll lose I am 3rd degree black belt and combat veteran and close quarters combat with blades is something I have years of experience with