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@TheChongles Oh, and you do have more experience than just playing with tree branches i hope? Because it would be very embarassing if you'd criticised those guys who have serious training while you've never went to a real Kenjutsu/HEMA school...

@EdgeOfTheShinai Have you understood that breaking a baseball bat (if you're lucky enough that it didn't break your other forearm) is... err... let's say, silly (if even possible??), when you might as well attack the person holding it? That turning your back towards your attacker is suicidal? It'...

@Alyyboyy Und falls du denkst, ich erfinde das alles, gib mir Bescheid und ich sende deiner Mailbox ein paar Links ;-)

@sototajeri Let me guess, you've got yome sparring experience, don't you? And in those training you often end up having ''killed'' each other simultaneously? Well, i know this very well, happened all the time in our fencing group! Then we switched to heavier swords (slower=easier to foresee, more...

@franchute63 Possible, you surely know better than me... :-)

Personally i like the faster versions, for me it's more like dance, the very slow interpretations have something meditative that is more like church music...

@gr0g01 No one uses blocks if you have better technique. The european medieval arts of the sword are very sophisticated! For example you hit the incoming sword of your attacking opponent with the cutting edge towards his side/flat, deviating it so that your own sword continues to hurt the attacke...

@Cattleclysmic There's always a profit to promote the crowd favourite. Look at you, it's easy to understand that though you like many swords, for you the Katana is special. By making it look good people will watch the show just to see what they want to see. I can't count how many Katanafanboys wa...