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2007-11-10, 16:22 | Link #62 |
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Eh... I kinda like a single edged sword. There's just something about it that's more attractive to me. I suppose a double edged sword would require slightly more skill when the user was wielding it, but I still like to think that a single edged sword fighting style would flow much nicer.
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2007-11-10, 19:12 | Link #63 | |
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2007-11-11, 18:48 | Link #65 |
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Hmm... I'm not really familiar in the 'types' of swords there are, but I think a broad sword with a kind of scimitar curved blade look would be cool. My friend and I saw a sword, and the blade was kind of cut out like a plume.
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2007-11-11, 19:16 | Link #67 |
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now thats the type of thinking I like
I'm not one for collecting or having a vast knowledge of swords, but I do like em. Altho I always thought the halberd is a great weapon or more to the point 2 handed staff or pole arms weapons are cool in my book
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2007-11-11, 19:17 | Link #68 | |
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If you take a look at the katana it has a curvature, this is to release energy from a striking force and is consider stronger than a straight blade where a strike could break the straight sword at point of fulcrum of the sword. As an example a straight beam bridge has less weight resistance when compared with a moon bridge of the same length due to it's arching structure. |
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2007-11-11, 22:07 | Link #69 | |
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Katana or Arabian sword. And I don't like double edged or straight sword.
Sephiroth's Masamune is my favorite so far. Quote:
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2007-11-12, 00:44 | Link #70 |
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Oh, Sephiroth's sword was a Masumune? I always had thought it was a tachi, due its sheer immense length.
And one last thought of mine on double-edged vs. single-edged swords: I guess it makes sense that Asian weapons such as the katana would lean more toward curved, single-edged blades whereas European design would lean more toward straight, double-edged due to the kinds of armor they had. As far as I know, (using Japan as an example), I don't know of any samurai who wore a full suit of armor like knights and paladins did in Europe during the middle ages. I suppose that why they never needed to have anything but slashing weapons because samurai wore relatively thin, thus never had the need to develop stabbing/piercing weapons to compensate for opponents with full suits of armor. Good examples of a stabbing weapon specifically meant as a solution to armor would be the stiletto or epee, both not suited for slashing attacks due to their light weight (and the epee has only a point anyway, no blade), but perfect for piercing armor or slipping past it and stabbing joints in the armor. Another sword almost exactly like the epee is the estoc, again having no slashing blade, only a point of stabbing/piercing attacks. Also, neither the epee nor the estoc are really suited to defense, for any well placed blow could easily break the blade clean off (because they are extremely thin, needle-shaped weapons).
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2007-11-12, 00:56 | Link #71 | |
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Second the Japanese Yoroi are made by metal slabs tightly threading to each other and are flexible and yet durable against slashing. Real combat using a katana mainly consisted of a stabing motion than a slashing motion since it was less possible to damage the katana on the battle field. Real European broad swords was as dull as a paper knife and was used more as a blunt weapon than a cutting weapon with it's sheer weight. |
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2007-11-12, 01:15 | Link #73 |
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What you say is quite true. It is due to the overall shape that makes such bias come up.
However, medieval swords being a "smashing" weapon is partly true, given how their shape allows the weight of the sword to do most of the cutting. |
2007-11-12, 01:19 | Link #74 | |
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There really needs to be a movie that does these swords justice. |
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2007-11-12, 01:22 | Link #75 | |
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Personally, however, I like my Korean Umgeom (shown in the first picture). It's lighter than most katanas/longswords, giving me the extra speed to do some serious damage before the opponent could attack. |
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2007-11-12, 01:32 | Link #76 | |
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And then, there's Gladiator, which is offers a good recreation of how the Roman gladius might have been used in battle. So, there are plenty of epic films out there that depict authentic European swords in positive light. You just have to know where to look. |
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2007-11-12, 01:42 | Link #77 |
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It's not about putting them in a positive light. None of those movies truly showed the impact associated with getting his with one of those things. Believe me, if done properly every hit the sword makes would having you clutching the spot you just saw get hit. No movie has done that for me.
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2007-11-12, 01:51 | Link #78 | |
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Straight swords does not have a curvature on the blade so it is hard to cut with a pulling motion without pressure on the blade. (same with a paper knife thus my analogy) |
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2007-11-12, 14:57 | Link #79 |
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a katana is such a nice sword... http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11rwc_katana_creation
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2007-11-13, 00:22 | Link #80 | |
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Too many variety of European blades made over a thousand year arms race to make any sweeping generalizations.
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