Russell McCartney ... European Martial Arts "Hall of Fame"

[MegaSlayer47]

WTF is this jap-crap??? HEMA > Kendo

[8mvp125]

Europe has so much to offer in the martial arts but this is so very asian.

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Modern European Martial Arts

[DonRubinjo]

Very bad! Better try dancing or so.

[blossfechter]

not european martial arts at all...

[AnThonyDIxie]

Always very funny...japanese sabre and their cutting techniques. I was hoping as well on european martial arts. Never the less; i don't know if he is really good with that big knife, but he is a great show man... compliments....

[MusoJikidenEishinRyu]

Martial Arts???

[iaibri]

Great dancing

[thepublicenemy10]

i actually know russle hes a good friend of my dads. he lives in southlake texas well i think he still does him and my dad havent talked in a while he had a girlfriend named vannesa we went to the south lake town square arts festival and had pizza but hes no slow poke he still holds the world record for cutting a piece of bamboo 4 times in one second my dad might still have his phone number

[richolss]

Please re-title this video. This is not " European Martial Arts"

[bigdaddycoolshoes]

He is so slow! He'd get killed for real. Look at Otake's clips. He is the real deal.

[DeHeld8]

bah I was hoping for genuine european martial arts. Fiore dei Liberi, Johannes Liechtenauer, Sigmund Ringeck, that kind of stuff...

[8mvp125]

@DeHeld8

your right, these are the people of historical European Martial Art.

[rickyarias]

VERY SORRY... Looking at it again it still looks like a korean sword. Shiny brass looking fittings small no niku swoerd... Not very Japanese looking... Being that old it would have been polished at least 3 times, so that covers most of those issues. I know Sensei used to compete in Korea almost 10 years ago. Hell even my sensei uses an MAS for demos.... BUT I guess I am wrong... MY BAD.

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

No worries. I think he spent quite a bit on new hardware, but you can tell the tsuba is a standard musashi style. However, I'm not sure how you can see if there is niku or not. I do love some of the MAS swords though. I wouldn't mind getting the L6 Shirayuri Katana from them :). Anyway, hope your training is going well, and maybe we'll see you at the 2009 Battle of Atlanta.

[rickyarias]

no one takes notice that he uses Korean swords not Japanese... Look like MAS blades but korean style... It can be seen in their fittings and their profile... A dead give away is how easy he does two sword forms with them... Where those more traditional size they would not be quite so easy to whip around:)

[IshiYamaRyuSeattle]

Sorry Ricky, I don't know who told you he uses korean swords or korean-style swords, but that is incorrect. In fact, in this video he is using a Japanese sword made in the 16th or 17th century (it was either 1550 or 1650, I can't remember). Another example, the sword he used in senbongiri was a Japanese gendaito made by Kanehide (a very famous smith in the 20th century). As for why the two sword technique looks easy...that would be dedicated training.

[wachnathan]

pretty good Iaido

[freelonelyguy]

Wow...He is truly awesome.....

[sirnicholson]

absolutly intense

[crazypejo]

rusell is the man....