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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2009 19:05:48 GMT
what Ebon says is true... when I got my Strider knife I tried to play around with it in the room... ended up cutting my jacket up (oh well, at least it wasn't that expensive) and then tried to sheath the knife and ended up cutting my hand too... lessons from that are to never wave a sword inside, but most importantly to always put my jacket in the closet before I start playing (ya thought that was gonna be really philosophical, didn't u...). The point I am trying to make though is that if you are not careful, crap happens, so always check twice before you cut
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 4:04:52 GMT
A wooden sword is lighter than a steel sword, except for maybe a suburito. I think using a wood sword is a good idea, but realize a live blade will be heavier with a cutting edge.
I purchased a Cold steel machete. If you don't know, they don't come razor sharp; it will still hack away at brush, but you can run your finger along the edge no problem. After I sharpened the machete, it was a whole new ball game. I KNEW that anything in the path of the blade was going to be CUT. It demanded a higher level of awareness, and life has no undo button.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 4:39:25 GMT
You should never play with any sharp object, it is just asking for trouble. As for a wooden sword not being as heavy as a steel sword, depends who makes it and how it is weighted.
Albion is one of the best companies for good steel training swords that feel the way a real training sword should.
This whole concept of razor sharp is really ridiculous, unless we are talking about an actual razor. Many swords are as sharp as they need to be for what they are made to do and generally the geometries and whatnot are an aspect of how sharp the should be and how sharp they can be.
It boils down to always be safe and as soon as you start to think that you are playing with a weapon in any sense other than the WMA sense chances are you are going to do yourself or something else an injury. It is all about what mentality you have whether you hurt yourself or not. The worst injury I have ever had from a sword was when I pinched the skin between my thumb and forefinger between the mune and the saya when sheathing a blade, it was as good as cutting myself and in some ways worse.
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Post by lvdukerider on Nov 28, 2009 18:58:52 GMT
I train twice a week and depending on what we are doing use my iato or boken, I have three shinkin but only get them out for when we do practice cutting. Theres nothing other than practice cutting that I need to use a live blade for.
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