Just dropping a note to let everyone know that Salamander Armoury has recently added an In Stock section. There's only a half-dozen daggers there right now, but the prices are good and there will probably be more pieces added later, so anyone interested in Atar's work will want to check back from time to time.

hey I just saw this piece of animation, was wondering if your thought it depicted sword fighting realistically, or if it was just doing computer animation gymnastics... thanks for the feedback

Duel - the film (less than 5 mins long)
eta - i fixed the link.

Ok, both of these masters are fighting to the death, both are unarmored, the kendo master has a katana and other guy has only his one sword/foil/rapior, finally both or the masters have the same amount of experiance. This is a battle of stlyes not the men themselves.

Also nice to see a little interest on the board guys.

Who do you guys think would win in a fight, a master of kendo or a master of any version of fencing? Also state your argument to why they would win.

yo guys i just joined and i have replied to one of the older questions so it may be best to ignore that even though there is some good info there. anyway i have had an obssesion with swords and other weaponry for a long time ad now i have a small collection of seven swords and its growing fast. i hope we can get some kick ass conversations going ( Read more... )

Hello all! I'm really glad I found this community.
I've been obsessed with swords since I was a very small child. I have a wooden practice sword and some toy ones I used to play with when I was younger. I never thought I would be able to share that love (my friends all agree I am weird. ^_^), so I'm glad I found a place where everyone is just as " ( Read more... )

Woot, finally joined a community. Yeah yeah, I'm a swashbuckler and specialize in found weapon stage combat, mostly cooking utensils. I'm a fighter in a Ren fair in the North West known as Greenwood, we travel but we’re based out of the tri-cities. I play a chef so I can do cool stuff like have a rapiers vs spatula and ladle fight, or the ( Read more... )

Um, hi, I'm new here. I was recently browsing some sword/dagger sites and completely failing to find my favorite kind of dagger, so...yeah. I'm not sure where that sentence was supposed to go. My favorite dagger is the sai (Japanese three-point dagger), but I also like generally any medieval weapons (especially Japnese ones. Shurikens, but also ( Read more... )

Hi there,

I use purely European weaponry, focusing on the Dark Ages, though I am also rather handy with my rather weighty cavalry sabre. As well as a good longblade, I'm a serious fan of the Daneaxe.

Anyway, that's a general introduction, hello!

Hi folks, is anyone familiar with the Paul Chen / Hanwei line of swords. I'm looking at possibly buying a Practical Hand and a Half Sword, with the possibility of doing some choreographed work with it.
Any knowledge/opinions on these?
Many thanks.