Swords
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Breaking sword means one of two thingsnotoriouslynx said:
1. you bought a rubbish quality sword which most people who buy swords do the things wouldn't last 5 minutes in a real sword fight.
2. your really bad at fighting with it learn to use it its a skilled instrument not a stick.
Think of the Zombie Apocalypse. Your gun holds 20 rounds, but swords never run out of bullets. However, if you have no experience with it, you'll be quite surprised how difficult it would be to lop someone's head off. Then, if you manage to do that, good luck doing that again and again for the rest of the Apocalypse. Wow, I just realized I contradicted myself there.BaronXS said:
I've bought a set of three for $50, but nice, battle ready ones (as stated earlier) can run from $1000 to $2000, depending on quality.Assassin Xaero said:
I love swords, in fact I've been collecting them since 8th grade. But since I have to pay for them myself, I only have about 12 or so. and an undetermined amount of knives.
I concur.dalek sec said:
Swords just look tacky if you have them hung up on the walls, like Katanas and stuff appear really out of place in a teenager's bedroom.
Similarly, a claymore mounted on the wall would look pretty lame unless you lived in a castle...
If you're gonna get a replica sword for display, please make sure it matches your interior or whatever, thus avoiding the aforementioned problem.
However, if I did live in a castle or manor house, I'd want one of these over mah fireplace.
Tie up means to incapacitate or prevent from moving in martial arts - He tried to take me down, I sprawled and swept him so I landed on top of him, then I essentially lay on top of him in such a position that he could mount no further effective offence against me. I really didn't think that would be that hard to get, even for someone who knows nothing about anything.Simmo8591 said:
See if you can remove the butt of the hilt to look at the construction of it. If theres a bolt underneath its a worthless piece of crap that will break as soon as you hit anything solid with it. Also try shaking it. if it clangs, its worthless.
This is why I stopped collecting swords and started collecting daggers instead.
That is, if your looking for something remotely functional. If your just planning to hang it on your wall and leave it there, knock your self out.
This is why I stopped collecting swords and started collecting daggers instead.
That is, if your looking for something remotely functional. If your just planning to hang it on your wall and leave it there, knock your self out.
damn straightXandus117 said:
though the only practical reason I can think of owning a sword is fencing, anyone else fence?
I use a sabre for preference.
I went on eBay and say this awesome stainless steel replica of a katana with a sheath, and it was like $30.00
<Comments like that make me want to gnaw my own arm off to DISTRACT me from the pain. Getting a katana or one of those cane/swords will cost several hundred squid easily; but they are awesome.
What about those 8ft long swords? Guessing those are some of those that are over $1,000? Don't think you would really need to sharpen it much though, seems like gravity could do most of the work...
Gee, play Daggerfall. If you're up against Daedra, steel and silver won't help either. You use magic, Daedric weapons or your bare hands.Xandus117 said:
Trust me. Axes work a lot better if they're razor-sharp.Assassin Xaero said:
My foil has a screw-thread on the back end of the blade. The guard and grip slide over it, then the pommel screw on. It's been used off and on for forty or fifty years, and it's still good.
My personal preference for sword style, however, is either ninja:
... or something European but still straight, elegant and fairly clean:
(A word of warning: if you go to the site where I found that and place a request for a price quote, you get automated phone calls about having won some trip to Vegas and having to press 9 to claim it, but no price of a sword.)
What I really don't like is this nonsense:
And the other 4 guys just backed off as you lay on their friend. surely if you were pinning him to the floor you could mount no further offense (note how for someone who 'knows nothing about anything' I can at least spell offense correctly) against the other 4 attackers? did they not think to help their friend? or were they so wowed by the incredible move you used on their friend that they did not risk their own necks against a lone man pinning someone?gentleben said:
Firstly, the word "offense" is the American spelling of the British/Australian word "offence", seeing as how I had already mentioned in passing that I was Australian I would think that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to assume I would be using pure English spelling.Simmo8591 said:
Secondly, no, they didn't stand there, the started stomping on my back and trying to pull me off their mate, but I've never seen a fight last more than 30 seconds without being broken up, so I was pretty sure time was on my side - which in this case, mercifully, it was. A couple of people stepped in because it happened in the busy nightclub district of my city where there are constantly people. I don't know of anyone that is so dehumanised that they wouldn't step in to stop one guy getting stomped on by three others.