Blunt Bastard-Sword Cutting Bamboo

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Sports

Tags:

• tameshigiri
• kendo
• fencing
• katana
• kenjutsu
• martial
• arts
• sword
• fight
• boken
• shinai

[fakejohnwilkesbooth]

The presenter here is responding to certain myths about the borderline magical cutting power of the katana. To be fair, these myths aren't really propagated by honest practitioners of Japanese swordsmanship - but the presenter has nothing but respect for earnest practitioners, as far as I can tell. (Also to be fair, I wouldn't blame anime in particular for such myths, as it tends to make superheroes and magic weapons out of everyone and everything imaginable).

[megadeth22885]

battle of visby in 1361 shows damaged caused by razor sharp medieval bastard swords slicing through helmets and slicing through skulls so empty the brain cavity into the dirt, single swings slicing through armored limbs, and even one guy having both plate armoed legs sliced right off with one swing... and people are going to try telling me european swords werent sharp and couldnt cut?... fucking nipponophiles so obsessed with their anime that they disreguard FACT that proves their ideas wrong

[IronCoredKnight]

@41iou

katanas have good speed, but bastard swords are faster

[hansvonslither]

Katana sucks dick I'm tired of hearing how great the samurai were swords like these and the longsword along with the claymore r better. What's a samurai going to do when some one swings a 6 foot long sword at him try to deflect that

[41iou]

thoe i do like cutting random thing with basted but katanas speed

[41iou]

by time u hit target /target woud have hit u to or three times with armer kickd ova and stabed in eyes not 2 menchin u cn can kill with a banana in rite hands

[WitheringintheDark]

@gurkfisk89

Yeah, I remember reading about that. There were next to no torso cuts detected on the bodies, which is where the armor found would have covered, nearly all the wounds were to the limbs, whereas the head injuries usually came from some type of warhammer or pick, or were combined with limb injuries, suggesting that they were first disabled, then their helm removed and executed.

I don't recall reading of any Helmet they discovered that was Actually Cut through.

[devoidchess]

@temmy9 I left my account logged in in a net cafe and some shithead decided to use it to start a bunch of arguments about swords on youtube. I don't know anything about swords. I don't care about swords.

[temmy9]

@devoidchess No they were not. Swords are meant to cut flesh, not steel. Euro swords that were intended for cutting cut just as well as a Katana. You do not use a sword to cut armour, period.

[gurkfisk89]

@megadeth22885

As for battle of Visby. I haven't seen the helm cutting. But remember that the people in Visby was more of a militia than a standing army. So the limb cutting wasn't that hard, they didn't have any specific protection for the limbs. So yes the european swords where sharp and could cut, but I'm sceptic about the metal armor cutting.

[gurkfisk89]

@megadeth22885

I have to disagree with you on some things. I would not say that european swords was better balanced, they where different balanced. The katana is more cutting oriented so it's not a bad thing to have it more blade heavy. Just as some falchions are more blade heavy. It's not before you want a sword to be long and thrusting oriented that the hilt balance is great.