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Post by Freebooter on Jan 29, 2012 23:00:26 GMT
Hello all,
I wasn't sure where to post this, since there is no actual General Discussions board for all weapons or generic questions on here. But this has probably been asked before, but where did you get your love of swords, collecting them, the catolyst that set you on that path, etc.. I always liked edged weapons and such movies even as a kid, but did not really get into them enough to buy and collect until later.
So, with me, it was when I was about 13-14 yrs old and my parents bought me the "Hardy Boys" collection of books. I read them all and loved them. For those of you unfamiliar with them, they were the two sons of a well known detective that would help him on cases sometimes and got to solving their own crimes, etc.. Anyway, in one of them they went to an old estate or something in their crime solving activities and met an elder man who lived there. On every wall of his place hung all sorts of swords he had collected in a lifetime of collecting swords. I mean wall to wall swords. I remember thinking that was neat and would like to do that some day. While I don't have that sort of massive collection, I do have a rack with 7 swords in it, 3 Viking, 1 Napoleonic Mamoluke, 1 Tulwar type, and a leaf bladed short sword, and a handful of spears.
So, I was just wondering, what set you on the path of collecting and loving swords, etc?
Thanks,
Freebooter
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Post by deejay on Jan 29, 2012 23:46:14 GMT
Satureday morning serials-black&white-Errol Flynn-later on at the theatre Robin Hood,Zorro and eventually up to Arnie as Conan.Somewhere in my tweens we had a guy in the nieghberhood of japanese descent who trained with the katana with his son which we would watch from the roof top of our garage.Got a horrible cold and having trouble figuring out what to say so I'll stop now.
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Post by Dave Kelly on Jan 30, 2012 1:02:18 GMT
I wask kidnapskd at a very oily agekd by pyrats. It wask invegtikable that I wask faskinated by sahwordduhs: ( No, no wait. This is from my "gay blade" period. Which prompted me to run away to the pirates... :lol: ) ( PS. PS. PS: THis pic is as close to fufilling my dream of beheading baby brother as I would ever get. Okay I'm leaving now...)  :mrgreen: |
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Post by LeMal on Jan 30, 2012 1:35:59 GMT
First this, in grade school: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden ... _of_Sinbad Would you believe we actually came home and made wasters--having no idea what they were called--and fought with them in the yard? No helmets, no gear, just wooden swords. Crazy kids! Then soon after, in junior high, being introduced to the works of the inimitable Robert E. Howard. And kept it up with sticks and wasters. (Sometimes I wonder how I survived my youth.) (Though what's really funny? I got injured a lot in those days and went to the hospital a few--but never from that! Go figure!) |
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Jan 30, 2012 1:55:15 GMT
The 1973 version of The Three Musketeers, Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Lee, Charlton Heston, adapted for the screen by George MacDonald Fraser.
It still holds up.
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Post by SeanF on Jan 30, 2012 1:56:24 GMT
Much like the last time this came up I can't pinpoint something specific that kindled my interest in blades. As far back as I remember I was swinging sticks back and forth at friends/brother/enemies.
The first 'swordsman' to capture my imagination was Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy 7. Though this kindled my passion for swords in video games, I never thought of them as something one could actually own. That came much, much later.
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Post by Dr. Whom on Jan 30, 2012 2:05:00 GMT
My love for Ninjas and 80's Ninja films led me to shurikens and knifes so collecting swords as an adult was the next logical step
I was also a huge fan of the 1982 Beastmaster film
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Post by whitefeathers on Jan 30, 2012 2:14:52 GMT
A trip to Midieval Times when I was 11 years old for a History class trip.
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Post by Freebooter on Jan 30, 2012 2:25:12 GMT
Thanks y'all! Yes, I grew up on those Sinbad movies, the original Jason and the Argonauts, Hercules movies, etc.. Loved all those Greek era movies!
Lemal, we used to also make wooden swords and those old galvanized metal trashcan lids made perfect shields too! I am 56 now and I thank God tohave grown up in an era when kids were kids, used their minds and bodies and imaginations to play and were not locked away in the house on some ipod, computer, xbox or something. We had a blast growing up.
Freebooter
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Jan 30, 2012 2:38:23 GMT
Heres all it took for me to be hooked....after i saw these i spent my youth making wooden swords and beating up the neighbor kids with them :lol: :twisted:
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Post by Freebooter on Jan 30, 2012 11:35:59 GMT
Salto, I enjoyed that old Conan movie, and I loved the Highlander series. I am going to get the boxed set one of these days.
FB
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Post by lamebmx on Jan 30, 2012 11:57:54 GMT
for me it was kind of spur of the moment last fall. I must have been browsing like a wiki article, and then started to look at what made a functional sword vs a wall hanger. researching like made between SBG & SMG not for purchase but learning. and payday hit and I ordered up a musashi. before it arrived at my doorstep i ran into a friend of a friend who showed me his cheness tenchi & CS katana, I offered $100 for the tenchi and he took it. Played with it and the musashi arrived. They were 2 completely different beasts. This set me off on buying more and learning the differences in handling. Now I am wanting to branch out into western sword handling. (though my eastern hunts are not complete)
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Post by Freebooter on Jan 30, 2012 22:18:11 GMT
Yep, I love my Katana, great, not too heavy, well balanced and cuts like a fiend! But I also love my cavalry sabre too! I used to think that sabres were all but useless unless used on horseback, but after watching Cold Steel's "Fighting with the Sabre and Cutlass" martial arts DVD and things such as this; ... re=related , I learned that sabres, tulwars, scimitars, etc, are very versatile and can indeed be quite useful and deadly on foot. Freebooter |
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Post by Vincent Dolan on Jan 30, 2012 22:25:12 GMT
Hard to say, really. Most people can trace their love of swords to one definite thing, be it Conan, Highlander, and what have you, but I can't; not really. If I had to say, my love of swords actually came around by way of an interest in ancient weaponry. I had to do a report on Native American culture for my 4th-5th grade history/world cultures class (I'm not sure which), so I went outside, gathered some sticks, and made myself a crude self-bow to augment my project. After that, it was, as they say, all down hill.
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Post by Dave Kelly on Jan 30, 2012 23:11:02 GMT
Silly, but one of the first epics I can recall.
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Post by Freebooter on Jan 31, 2012 5:38:36 GMT
Magnificant cavalry, but the stupidest looking hats I ever saw! LOL!
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Post by Anuan on Jan 31, 2012 5:44:33 GMT
I couldn't say specifically, as it started very very early in life, but I can tell you three things that definitely contributed. This:  This:  And this, which also contributed to my fascination with martial arts in general: www.imdb.com/title/tt0182666/For anybody interested, here's the weapons-master fightscene from that movie. Includes dao, spear, staff, hookswords and butterfly swords. I can't embed, so that's the best I can do I'm afraid. |
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Post by Dave Kelly on Jan 31, 2012 10:55:34 GMT
Obviously you are neither cavalry or rock star material. The lancers wore the Polish Czapka (sic), a traditional headgear migrated to western europe with their lances.
I sometimes think the only reason for cavalry to exist is to demonstrate their garrolous, flamboyant ostentation. Cavalry charges can be fearful, although they sometime looked more like a mounted Follies Bergere chorus line. :lol:
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Post by Dave Kelly on Jan 31, 2012 11:05:03 GMT
I have shared this with others recently. Youtube embedding appears a mystery, but it's ridiculously simple to do once you get the key: Once you find a youtube vid you want to share in the forum locate the "share" button below the screen. Press it. Then press the "embed" command that appears. You will see to the left that a short url will appear. Copy that. Now return to the SBG forum screen. Above your message screen is a palette of dark action keys. At the extreme right is a youtube key. Press that. Insert your copied url between the marks. Strip away all the code you pasted between the marks EXCEPT for the vid code provided. Try the message preview. At this point you should see the video displayed in your message successfully. Ain't that amazing!  |
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Post by Anuan on Jan 31, 2012 11:51:22 GMT
Ahh, see, I didn't strip the other code. Thanks |
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