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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2008 20:29:23 GMT
These are cross posted from the review section, hope I'm not breaking any rules, I was just thinking we should keep the discussion over there about the sword, and tear apart my cutting technique here ;D
I'm open to any advice and constructive critisizm. This is only my third time cutting bottles, and first time taking a video.
When cutting I thought I was getting enough speed because there were no batted bottles, but watching the video it seems the sword's not moving as fast as it could be, or is it just me?
And just for fun, a paper and leather cutting vid showing sharpness.
VA Atrim Practical longsword by the way.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2008 21:07:59 GMT
Looked pretty good. You may want to be more conchies about how far you swing, though. Looked like your follow threw was excessive possibly even dangerous.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2008 21:56:31 GMT
Yeah - ease up a bit. Your cutting is pretty good - I've seen far worse.
As for the speed issue - NO! Your sword does NOT need to go any faster. Just remember that the cut comes from pulling with the bottom hand, not pushing with the top hand - i.e. it's not a baseball bat. This will smooth out your sword swings.
Also - a lot of your cuts lacked good control - you see the bottle tops flying all over the place? that's from a slightly misaligned edge. A good edge on a sword can be 'forgiving' in that it'll still cut with just a little bit of misalignment - especially water bottles which are essentially only difficult to cut on the outside(the plastic part - and even then not too hard). Your sword would get lodged and torqued if you were to try the same with tatami.
Slow down and make sure your swings follow the angle of the edge precisely. Another way to look at it is to make sure your edge alignment follows the trajectory of your swing precisly. Same thing either way.
When you get this movement into muscle memory and become comfortable with it - speed will follow.
Simply going for speed causes your form to suffer - and it shows in the video. Not to try and bring you down - but I think you could do better if you relaxed a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2008 2:59:44 GMT
Alright thanks for the tips I'll work on it for next time. Yeah I had alot of flying bottles. At least every one got cut ![:P](//storage.forums.net/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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