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Post by pgandy on May 23, 2017 18:57:05 GMT
“I'm saying there are limits to the use of flexible plastic blades in sparring.” Lancelot, are you using plastic, flexible blades or covered steel blades as in the photo? Whoops. I saw your last post just before pressing the send button. Not trying for any trade secrets and feel free not to respond. The dagger cover is my homemade makeshift and so far has worked fine. There's a steel blade underneath. I like that shield and wish it was available to me.
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Post by Lancelot Chan on May 23, 2017 19:06:42 GMT
“I'm saying there are limits to the use of flexible plastic blades in sparring.” Lancelot, are you using plastic, flexible blades or covered steel blades as in the photo? Whoops. I saw your last post just before pressing the send button. Not trying for any trade secrets and feel free not to respond. The dagger cover is my homemade makeshift and so far has worked fine. There's a steel blade underneath. I like that shield and wish it was available to me. It's actually a mixture between them. Plenty steel inside, doing the weight distribution and stiffness thing, with less and less steel toward the tip. There are also various plastic too forming the core. Not actually a steel blade, otherwise our stuff can't go to Japan and may not be safe enough for full contact like we do to bare skin. I do take into consideration about different materials' mass and how to place them to make them balanced like the actual sharp swords. Peter Wang in NYC do good work with Chinese weaponry sparring. I don't have that kind of rattan shield here either. I like his videos where people actually are afraid of getting hit by slices and dices. Too many people sparring nowadays who just go head long into grappling range from afar, or emphasize on heavy impacts because of blunt simulator habits, not realize a slice from a keen edge is not going to be forgiving. Some of my students were not very aware of how delicate and easily damage a keen edge is either. So recently I took 2 videos of how I repair their swords in actual time flow to show them how much work was put into the repair and polish. Only then did they realize they were too careless with their swords. If you're interested, here're the repairing videos:
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Post by pgandy on May 23, 2017 22:07:38 GMT
Thank you so much for the videos. I opened the first and when I saw the length I backed out until later with more time to appreciate it better.
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Post by Lancelot Chan on May 23, 2017 23:08:30 GMT
Take your time. hahhaha those were meant to educate my students about the effort spent on making the keen edge.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jun 1, 2017 13:56:44 GMT
@lancelot Chan
It seems you tend to gravitate towards single-edge blades in most of the recent videos I've watched. Do you train much with double-edged blades? I'm curious about false-edge follow up attacks from your 'tip-power' parries/crosscuts.
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Post by Lancelot Chan on Jun 1, 2017 14:56:37 GMT
@lancelot Chan It seems you tend to gravitate towards single-edge blades in most of the recent videos I've watched. Do you train much with double-edged blades? I'm curious about false-edge follow up attacks from your 'tip-power' parries/crosscuts. All the swords I use actually have partial false edge near the tip. So I use the false edge cuts too.
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Jun 1, 2017 16:15:55 GMT
@lancelot Chan It seems you tend to gravitate towards single-edge blades in most of the recent videos I've watched. Do you train much with double-edged blades? I'm curious about false-edge follow up attacks from your 'tip-power' parries/crosscuts. All the swords I use actually have partial false edge near the tip. So I use the false edge cuts too. What has been your experience using false-edge cuts in your movement-conservative, more percussive style (as opposed to the more overt movements and binding practiced in German longsword)?
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Post by Lancelot Chan on Jun 1, 2017 17:15:53 GMT
All the swords I use actually have partial false edge near the tip. So I use the false edge cuts too. What has been your experience using false-edge cuts in your movement-conservative, more percussive style (as opposed to the more overt movements and binding practiced in German longsword)? I use false edge upward cuts to snipe at opponent's grip and forearms mostly. They'll be injuring enough to cause major blood loss and the lose of gripping ability, thus disabling the opponent. They won't be strong enough to take off the whole forearm though, I think. But you don't need to totally take off the forearm to make one unable to fight on with that hand.
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