ARMA Senior-Free Scholar Prize Playing 2007

Very Sharp sword, cuts few layers of padding without any problem. Even when you hit with very light strike - look at my video answer.
At the other hand sword sharpened like ordinary axe, cannot cut through the padding.

at 49, the guy sure looks tough, but the guy who gets thrown totally has his sword up against the other guy's belly for a good 2 or 3 seconds.

In such situation he would hardly be able to genereate enough pressure to actually cut him, beside that, getting proper edge alignment required for a cut would also be a big problem.

Just touching someone with a sword won't injure, you need to strike or slice.

Its not a lightsaber.

@CrimsonEmpire Remeber, sword edges are more chisel-like than knife-like. Merely pressing the edge of a sword against someones belly, even when it's only covered with a shirt, would probably cause, at most, a superficial wound. Aaron's takedown and subsequent pommel-bash would have definitively ended the fight.

right but what if he'd drawn the blade while applying pressure? I mean, the sword would be sharp as hell right?

@CrimsonEmpire Against bare flesh? Maybe. Through even light padding? Unlikely. The edge of a sword is meant to withstand some pretty mean abuse, and so it isn't really sharp like a knife or a razor. It needs to be able to cleave flesh when swung with force, so it has an edge to be sure but, generally (and by generally I mean for the types of swords represented in this video), they wouldn't be sharp enough to gut someone with just a quick swipe or draw.

@CrimsonEmpire It probably wouldn't be a pleasant experience to have a sword drug across you as the waster is drug across Aaron in this vid, but it probably wouldn't result in a debilitating or lethal wound, which is why the fight didn't stop there.

What is the music here?