HUMOR The Selfie Thread

For a more modern version of me, you can revisited this one, although it’s also almost a year old by now:
https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet.com/index.php?threads/lets-just-talk-no-drama-please.9551/page-120#post-310748

It has a core rod made of fiber for stability and flexibility, then around that glued foamed plastics cut to the shape of a weapon, with a finish of colored latex coating to make it work and look like a SLO (sword like object). There’s a certain level of light-weight, not to hard and flexible quality to it to prevent serious injuries when getting hit (besides bruises). But you would not be allowed to stab with it because the fiber rod cut come out between the foam sheets and then you could lose an eye or something.

 

I have a raptor sword. Unsharpened tho, sadly. Ill make a pic later.

 

At Disneyland there is a literal armory where you can buy real swords that are sharp for like $150.

 

I bought mine online from windlass UK when i lived in finland. Fins have strict policies about importing weapons so i felt if it was sharpened it would be considered a weapon and they would retain it in the customs. I figured i would sharpen it here. But cant find any sword sharpeners

 

Yeah at disneyland they do not let you take it with them, they have to legally ship it to you once you buy it.

 

I’ll got mine for HEMA practice from the Czech weapon smith Jiri Krondak
http://www.fabri-armorum.com/en/p/one-and-half-sword-training/

 

Its a weapon. Really is. So...dont piss me off Iandiana.

I will have it sharpened one day i think. After i master the moves so i wouldnt chop of my ear or something. I hit myself in the head with it more times than once.

 

Do you practice the moves in a school for HEMA or “just” on your own?

Sparing with a sharpened sword will become - difficult. And by the way, most swords do not qualify to being sharpened afterwards when not designed to be so in the first place.

If you got lot of mon’ and want an excellent sharpened sword that behaves like the originals – this is THE place:
https://www.albion-swords.com/

 

what?

 

I do it on my own. Not at all as much as i would like to. At the moment just having it in my hands and copying kylo's piruettes from the final fight is about the extent if it.
I think im....affraid to try to dwelve deeply in it from fear of sycking.
Also...being a single mother torn apart between her duties towards her job and family doesn't leave much alone time for doing what i really want.

Nothing.

 

Okay .

 

Good.

 

OK, I see where you coming from.

For stage fencing, pirouettes are fine. In normal sword practice, nobody does some as they are a good way to get ‘killed’. If you’re interested, be on the lookout for Matt Easton’s youtube channel SCHOLA GLADIATORIA.

https://www.youtube.com/user/scholagladiatoria


Here you will find tons of good short clips on all kinds of medieval fighting stuff and more, quite authentic. This also includes good reviews of fighting scenes and equipment used in films and TV series.

Edit … just to add: Skallagrim is amongst my favorite YouTubers on this topic (also lots and lots of good clips).

 

Not if you do them fast enough. Which I do. What i like the best about it is how it gives momentum to my swings. Im more a one handed fast combat style kinda person. And i think combining evasivenes with piruettes and fast over the head strokes can be effective.
Kinda like geralt of rivia does it.
My sword is a bit heavy for me to handle it one handed all the time. 1.7 kg. But i think it would work fine the more i practiced with it. Also backing up my strikes with twohanded attacks or defenses.

This is my favorite move. It is very fast. He repeats it successfuly and effectively in different variants and degrees. I love it.







He is quite fast with it.


Starthing with spins

Wow...thank you for the links. Will check them out.

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@Star Dude this move



That starts with a step frontwise. Then lifting up the lightsaber over the hand spining it and continuing to a over the head twirl. Sometimes he makes a piruette if the opponent is farther away and in a backing up not attacking stance.

 

This will only work in films and fantasy games. As soon as you start to spin around you will get a sword in your back, believe me. It’s just a stretch with the arm which is always faster than spinning around the whole body.

You don’t need nor want any extra momentum in a sword fight, because:

• Swords are cutting weapons, there for you have to make movements that involve a slicing part, not hacking (else use an axe)
• Too much momentum will bind your movement for a moment and carry you past your enemy, you can’t react anymore to an opponent moving easily out of your trajectory of attack and killing you then if the stab in the back wouldn’t have brought you down first.

The last is even more true when the weapon you start to put momentum in weights 1.7 kg.

Never turn your eyes of and your back to an opponent. And your weapon should be held most of the time between you and your opponent too. This will protect you and allow you to easily and very fast stab him/her in that back when he/she starts to pirouette…


In this moment, Finn had the chance to very easily cut Kylo down. You see were the blue saber is: 50 cm away from Kylos back. It does not take much effort nor time to lower a lightsaber and cut him severely. Instead, the actor looks up in the air from where the strike will come from as per choreography. Just standing there and waiting, doing nothing. That wouldn’t be the case in a real fight with a trained sword user, rest assured!

Edit: … or just move the blue blade slightly forward and to the right in Kylos path with doing a small sideways step, letting him do the work for Finn, Kylo would had cut his own elbows of on a 6000+ degree hot plasma blade, like the wings of a fly.

 

@Star Dude

I hear the wisdom of your thoughts. But I think it can be done effectively. Not in all occasions, true. Not with a stationary or advancing oppondnt. But with one that is on the defensive and stepping backwards. Its crucial to play it properly. After you were advancing for awhile. The first move of the strike, when your hand goes upward, backed up by a step forward pushes the oponent further backwards. See how Finn there is put of balance. Even if he could make a swing for kylo's back it would be nothing more than a slash. Because kylos back in theat moment does not travel towards Finn but rather away from him . They dont have the same movement directions so Finn cant do much damage. And if you do it fast....fast enough then your next strike comming out of the turn when both hands join is a crushing one. Im quite surprised with how finn didnt fall down after it.
Piruettes are risky and calculated moves. Very unsafe. But they can work. In fast dinamic fights. Full of surprising moves. It is not a fight style to do in a strategic fight.
I dont fight safe and calculated. Even if I recognize the wisdom of that combat style. Im more of a reckless and bold kind of person. And it would probably get me killed were i to do it now, so inexperienced. But im thinking. If i find myself needing to fight someone to defend for my life...then ill defend it or die trying. Know what I mean?
Do or die...lol.

 

When I fight, I do broad strokes and pull back in for defensive as well as attack with my ful body to tackle my opponent down the second the blade is away from me.
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I just keep moving forward until i have cornered someone

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Then I strike the blow......but that video i showed you on facebook/youtube, my older sister was taller tha me at the time and in volleyball varsity so she overpowered me at the time
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How is that even possible, you are like 1.75?

 

This lady approves very much too!

 

To be honest – in a real live-death situation, 90% of all people nowadays will fall back to their cave man instincts because of the stress. This is well documented in modern knife crime and domestic violence reports. When someone is under stress, they will move like a cave man, which will result in hacking/stabbing motions from over the shoulder downwards (as seen in e.g. Psycho). This is why most victims after such incidents in real live carry wounds in the upper part of the body on the opposite side of the attackers main hand. It’s mostly a *hack hack hack* motion with the dominant hand holding a kitchen knife or club, technique and movement all gone over board in that moment the fear, survival instincts and the adrenalin kicks in.

You can even see a similar that effect when sparring: In the moment that hits get counted and nobody wants to be the first one to receive some - it's no longer practicing through a technique. Both participants will begin dancing around each other, testing the other's defense by feints and short strikes, looking for an opening. Until one has the courage to really engage. Mostly, both then will just try to hit the other in any possible way, without finesse ort tactic, and move back to a safe distance after the close-in. Mostly, they will use a very basic set of strikes.

You have to be very trained (and drilled to autonomous motions without thinking) and cool in combat to be able breeze through a set of techniques when your live or the integrity of body and health are put to danger.