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Post by Kiyoshi on Nov 2, 2015 7:36:38 GMT
I would so watch that movie. However grossly inaccurate they will make it for dramatic effect, I would watch that. "You'll never get anywhere swinging that stick around... Jack***." "Just drop out of school already, you're never going to go to college... Jack***." "You'll never learn how to noto... Ya jack***." I'll be sitting there with my popcorn going "dang, wish I was cool enough to have half of this happen to me."
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addertooth
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Working the tsuka on two bare blades from Ninja-Katana, slow progress
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Post by addertooth on Nov 12, 2015 3:03:56 GMT
I am perhaps a generation (or so) from many of this forum's denizens. But still, the romance of the early swashbuckling movies, the facing of an opponent across a length of steel, as versus from half-way across the battlefield through a scope, somehow seemed more visceral. Through my teen years, my father was a member of the American Knifemakers Guild. The concepts of metalwork, forging and heat-treating was learned in a very hands-on environment. As an early adult, a guy named Gary Gygax created the original "Dungeons and Dragons" game; version 1.0 was purchased (which came in a cardboard box, with dice you had to color in the numbers with a black wax crayon). Spent the next several years playing that game, attending various sci-fi/fantasy conventions, and started my involvement with the "Society for Creative Anachronism" (SCA). It was in the SCA I learned the basics of sword-use. Eventually some classes in Kendo were taken to polish the skills learned in the SCA. As a quasi-ambidextrous person, dual weapon wielding was one of my favored techniques. Most typically with one long weapon, and a shorter weapon. A couple years ago an interest developed in Grilling/Smoking and Cooking. To that end, and interest developed in fine kitchen knives. One day, when looking online for a SanMai fabricated chef knife, the SanMai keyword brought up listings for Katanas. I was surprised to learn many of them were actually less expensive than some of the chef knives I had been looking at. I did some basic research and decided to give a purchase a try. Now many purchases later, I have revived my old knifemaking skills, and picked up engraving. A workshop is coming together, with the plans of doing work on fittings for swords. At the current moment, no plans are in place to do sword blades themselves, but hard to say what the future will hold.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 23:44:12 GMT
Ninja movies...its the truth
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Post by zabazagobo on Nov 29, 2015 0:39:58 GMT
Something about glow sticks/light sabers caught my interest at a young age. When I learned Jedi were ripped off from Bushido culture, I quickly developed an interest in swordsmanship, although my parents never condoned kendo or the like as acceptable activities for me as a child. So, I lost interest in adolescence due to various circumstances, only to rediscover the artistry of the katana as a young adult. Although I was initially interested in swords for more aesthetic reasons, I quickly rediscovered my old liking for Bushido, and found kenjutsu to be a phenomenal accompaniment to meditation in pursuit of self mastery.
If the aforementioned movie ever comes to fruition, running with the Happy Gilmore references I think substituting James Williams for Lee Trevino would be a great touch for a random cameo
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 29, 2015 4:20:13 GMT
My love for history, combined with seeing the Starwars trilogy at a young age and seeing/reading the LOTR trilogy at the same young age I'd say. My brothers and I would always have sword fights with sticks, we'd spend tons of time carving away at pieces of wood to make a soon to break, pointy recreation of a sword that left our hands completely unprotected. (Though nothing compares to the pain of a hard strike to the fingers with a thick plastic lightsaber!) This all came together to make me always want an actual sword, whether it be a 19th century era sabre, a rapier like I'd see in random things, or even better, Anduril, from The Lord of the Rings.
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