How /fit/ do I have to be to wield a greatsword

>inb4 autists state that real, historic great swords were actually light weight

You faggots know he means anime huge.

>>39105432
going off a rough estimate

lets assume it's approx a 5 sq. foot long sword made of steel

that would make it around 32 x 5 =160

you'd need to be able to hold 160lbs of steel straight up with both hands

hammer curls with at least 35kg

weighted pull ups with at least half your bodyweight

heavy lateral raises focusing in the lower portion

at least 8 dragon flags full rep

deadlift at least 180kg

OHP at least 60kg

>>39105432
Gut's Dragonslayer weighs something like 400 lbs.
Needless to say you need to be someone like Hafthor to even pick it up.

>>39105432
Zweihanders weigh 2-3.2kg so not particularly.

>>39105597
>Zweihanders weigh 2-3.2kg

??
Have you ever held a sword?
Regular longswords already weigh 10-15kg

>>39105620

>Regular longswords already weigh 10-15kg

impossible

>>39105432
Do you know any enchantments?

>>39105432
GW2? What skin?

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>>39105546
>>39105620

How useful do you think a sword would be if it were fucking 30 pounds?

Swords are exceptionally light, because if they weren't they'd be a pain in the ass to use.

http://www.thearma.org/essays/weights.htm

>>39105620
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zweihänder

Kys

>>39105620
Kek my long swords are "heavy" and they're like 8lbs.

>>39105642
Your article focuses on rapiers, which were almost never used against armored targets, no shit it's lightweight
If you have to take on a motherfucker in full-plate you're not going to rush him with a stick

>>39105653
Because I'm going to trust a random internet article instead of smiths with actual swordmaking and history experience

A very long sword with very low weight would have to be paper-thin and you wouldn't chop shit with it

>>39105432
so you're going to quit lifting once you can wield one? genius

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>>39105683

>A very long sword with very low weight would have to be paper-thin and you wouldn't chop shit with it

>what is steel

>>39105642

well, do you want to be strong with the sword or just swing it around with 0 power?

do you think dragon flags will help just carrying the sword? no you piece of shit, they will make you fucking swing it with the power of thousands suns

>>39105432
>>39105498
There's a guy on youtube who makes giant anime and video game swords out of steel.
Most of them weigh well over 30 lbs, and being that large, are not balanced at all.

Basically OP, put 10 lbs on the end of a 3 foot stick, and see if you can swing that around with good control.

>>39105683
>If you have to take on a motherfucker in full-plate you're not going to rush him with a stick
You're not going to use a bladed weapon full stop. This is literally why reverse grip became a thing.

>>39105725
Steel has an approximate density of 8g/cm^3

Doing some simple math you can calculate that in order for a zweihander to have a length of 140cm and a weight of 2kg, it would have to have an approximate thickness of 0.3cm, when given the optimal blade width of 5cm

Apply yourself, fucktard

>>39105784

Who said 2kg? 4kg for the zwei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTXjcg0S_PI

>>39105790
Read the fucking article that was posted
Even then at 4kg the thickness would have to be just 0.7cm, which wouldn't even be thick enough to be heat treated, it would flop like a silicon dildo when you pull it out of the oven

>>39105637
Darksouls 1 abyss greatsword

>>39105765
YT channel is AWE me. The series where they make vidja weapons is Man At Arms

>>39105834
I meant michaelcthulhu actually.

AWE me doesn't make many giant swords, most of theirs are realistic and usable size.

>>39105779
>This is literally why reverse grip became a thing
Enjoy bending your weapon in one strike at 8lbs

>>39105535

>5 sq. foot sword
>32 x 5
>steel weights 32 lbs per square foot

you are beyond retarded

>>39105683
http://www.ejmas.com/jwma/articles/2000/jwmaart_melville_0100.htm
You're a retard, never type anything ever again.

>>39105805
what's your fucking smithing level, scrub? have you ever made a fucking 2h sword? No, you haven't so shut the fuck up.

>>39105853
They actually made the sword I was referencing. No one takes any actual swings/thrusts tho. The just pick it up and drop it https://youtu.be/MPqj6WaTFOE

>>39105889

http://www.metalplatesource.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=15

>tfw off by 8 lbs

>>39105432
try swinging around a sledgehammer one handed
or get a mace bell, I have a 25 pound one I can swing around for ages and it does wonders for using weapons and upper back and forearms
However from reading the thread you're stupid or autistic, even zweihanders only weighed like 8 pounds, the heaviest one that was actually used was the Friesiean freedom fighter Geel Piet's zwei, which still only weighed about 15 pounds, and he was described historically as a seven and a half foot giant with near mythical levels of strength

>/fit/ talking about history

Jesus fucking christ

>>39106415
>history
Outside of rusting i dont see how the weight of swords would magically change. If the topic was Austro-Hungarian infantry tactics you may be on to something.

>>39105432
Around this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJeX4EVd9Q

>>39105805
>>39105784
>>39105683
>>39105620
>not sure if troll or genuinely retarded


>>39105790
Actually, 2 kg is not a bad weight for a zweihänder, they go down to about 1.7kg.
Less if you could the shorter ones.

>>39105432
That's the greatsword of artorias. You'd have be a strongman to lift it freely. It's much bigger than your average sword, sized for the guy who plays the mountain.

Even if you're 7 feet tall and 300 lbs of pure muscle you won't be able to 1-hand it and do frontflips like Knight artorias does.

So I shouldn't be waving around barbells like swords at the gym?

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Great swords are nothing. a real alpha's weapon was robert baratheon's warhammer which was too large for a dyel great sword user like Ned to wield

>>39105432
It can be done op

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IKP8pLr8Wg

>>39105683
http://www.thearma.org/essays/2HGS.html

>>39105432
historical greatswords are only 3ish KG