Katana vs Chainmail

I take my katana and see how well it does against my BUTTED chainmail. The results are surprising.

The mail is draped over my cardboard target seen in other videos, which is sitting on top of a folding chair. This way, it have realistic give when struck (a real person would be knocked back a bit by the force of impact).

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[dlxowns322]

@jimmyvantorre Search "A point about katana" and watch "The Katana" video. The guy will explain it better than I did.

[dlxowns322]

@jimmyvantorre In fact, giver me your source in which you base this statement on, I would be interested to see it. From my understanding, even the samurais knew katana was not a great weapon and used it mostly as a last resort weapon. Most kills were done by bows and naginata.

[dlxowns322]

@jimmyvantorre Katana lacked a pommel to provide a counter weight against the blade. Fifthly, long sword were also made through combining different metals with different qualities except, it was of much better quality than any metal japan could create. In fact, celts were combining different metals for sword long before japan did. 700BC compared to Japan's 1300AD. Therefore, your "Katana's are proved to be superiour in every way" is horrible wrong.

[dlxowns322]

@jimmyvantorre Let me tell you why you are so horribly wrong. First of all, the long sword can cut almost as well as any katana. Secondly, the long sword is much more durable and less likely to bend or break in battle. Thirdly, long swords had a sharp tip that could easily go through chainmail and abuse any holes in the plate armor. Forthly, the katana was horribly imbalanced and was a blade heavy sword, slow to swing despite being light and two handed.

[Railstarfish]

@jimmyvantorre To be superior in every way it would have to be both longer and shorter, lighter and heavier, straighter and more curved, all at the same time.

[0umbrellacorp]

@jimmyvantorre Katanas break if they hit bone and are very hard to pull out if you get it stuck in an enemy. Besides the chance to lose your weapon in your enemy, sure, they're better.

[jimmyvantorre]

katana's are proved to be supreriour in every way to the longsword the only downfall of them is the price to make one, (imagine getting the crusader army katanas) and yes if europian smiths would have a guideline to make one they could. the asian were swordmastersmiths no doubt, but the europians were armormakers

[ummonk]

I don't know if a katana would be able to cut or pierce chainmail (it isn't that much worse at piercing than longswords, which were certainly capable of piercing mail), but in this video you aren't even trying...

[SxejokeR]

katana is a failure from overrated by hollywood its just made to kill peasants

[gerbilsmith]

gald you made it clear this was butted, even if the maille didn't fail.