Badass Sword shit

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This is something I guess

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swords are for fags

>>1142787
Fags not unlike you

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>no Jack

>>1142681
>Badass
>SAO
Pick one

>>1146873
>I'm so busy trying to fit in I can't enjoy neato laser swords

Ow the edge

>>1147705
My nigger. I opened this thread and thought that motherfucking Kariya belongs here, and here were you with that clip.

>>1147704
>>1147705
these are awful. what terrible shots, effect, music, and even the animation is bad. I'm not even trolling. this is really shit choreography and you should feel bad for liking it.

>>1147764
wew

>>1147764
>sword of the stranger
>bad choreography
Ok kid.

>>1147764
But wait this isn't about animation quality it's about badass swords.
Champloo has Alot of badass swords

>>1142681
Did Kirito become a female? What the fuck

>>1142696
Sauce?

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Please let this work

>>1142798
Saved. Katana is made with Pig Iron. Deal with it, weebs.

Post some fucking euro steel instead.

>>1150706
How about you do it you lazy cunt.

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>>1142681

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>>1150822

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>>1150823

>>1150838
What build?

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>>1142681

>>1150822
>>1150823
>posts actual sparring on an autist animu sword fighting thread

>>1151184
Not sparring. Sword dancing at best. Fuckers are swinging at the other weapon, rather than trying to strike a real blow. Shit like that pisses me off.

>>1151184
It's swords. You'll notice no one is complaining except your faux bullshit.

>>1150823
>>1150822
Am i autistic for thinking that could be fun?

>>1148434
Yozakura Quartet. The woman dressed as a nun is Yae Shinatsuhiko

>>1142696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NACU6Je1JiY

>>1153262
meant for
>>1148434

>>1147702
Source ??

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>>1142681

>>1153304
kek wtf

>>1147840
yes

>>1153235
No, it's really fun. I'm doing German Longsword and it's not only tons of fun, but great exercise. You might sperg out at movie fights once you start doing it, though.

>>1152814
That's totally sparring, man. The saber one may look choreographed, but that's what skilled saber fighting looks like.

>>1153304
"wow amazing" - le happy steam video game man

>>1142798
Yeah, because it was designed to cut into flesh and samurai armor, and not to facetank your opponents hits.
It is like judging an Autist by his ability to talk with women.

>>1153652
>Samurai armor

I don't think so, Tim.

>>1147702
I would also like sauce

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>>1147702
Sword of the Stranger.

>>1153652
>sword designed for cutting
>failed a slash test

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>>1142681
Well, I mean, I like how this sword looks when it glows.

>>1153720

A little overdone...
...just a little.

>>1153720
That's the gayest thing I've seen in weeks.

>>1153611
Where do you practice

>>1154409
>>1154406
>>1154397
what game

>>1154516
Odin Sphere on ps2

https://a.pomf.cat/pnfqyq.webm
Unfortunately I don't have this webm in 4 MB

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>>1154538
>>1154516
Leifthrasir, actually. It's on PS3/4 and Vita. The original has way shittier combat.

Last one even though it's not a sword

>>1147840
the game he was playing randomly assigned him a very feminine male avatar. It becomes a plot point later because he uses it to creep on chicks

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>>1142696

>>1147764
>I'm not even trolling
covered your ass there didn't ya?

>>1150884
Pure dex i bet

>>1153294
>>1153669
Learn how to use WAIT instead of clogging up threads with sauce requests.

>>1152814
It's a video from Skallagrim, those two are experts at sabers, that's actual sparing, either of those guys could beat you in one parry and strike without having to think.
In fact allot of their other rounds ended very quickly, that was the longest exchange they had in the entire video.

>>1150823
That buttery smooth block after the second guy returns a strike.
Fuck

>>1150664
I lost all the webms I made for it, but those Kenshin movies are pretty great. The actor is a former Kamen Rider too.

>>1150822
>>1150823
Skallagrim on youtube I believe. Actually a really cool dude.

>>1153262
Thanks, that was cool

>>1153720
What shitty free to play MMO is this abomination from? I swear it looks familiar.

>>1144043
more of jack?

>>1154798
holy fuck not only was he a kamen rider he was den-o

>>1154636
>>1150884
>dex
max strength, squats only

>>1154506
Swords of Chivalry in SoCal. I highly recommend them as everyone there is totally bro-tier. I'm still new at it and everyone has gone out of their way to be extremely helpful.
They also have lots of resources for getting into the tournament scene,the re-enactment scene, and even the LARP scene if it's your thing.

>>1153652
>designed to cut
>other weapon cuts better
What did he mean by this?

>>1142906
Really thinking about another playthrough now...

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>>1142798
what was that first sword he used?

Are there any good animations/anime where the character suse actuals swords and not the thin pieces of metal that are in damn near everyone?

>no sasuke vs killer bee

>>1142787
I love shit like this, ever since I saw it in Indiana Jone, just some super skilled swordsman forgetting that guns were fucking invented.

>>1154476
You Haven't looked in the mirror in weeks?!

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>>1158580

>>1148558
My favorite of all time. That's my secret fantasy, to play a Sam with the explosive sheath in an RPG.

https://youtu.be/b9O-wqjVl6E?t=747

>>1155006
>>1154998
for all the shit they gave to the new star wars

if finally looks like they are REALLY trying to kill each other

you can see the fury in each clash

>>1153711
Bioware animations are the best.

>>1158940
I think it's mostly because of the way Kylo moves, they actually managed to give him a distinct fighting style and it looks good.

>>1147264
This intro cinematic really oversold the shittiness of the actual game.

>>1153294
sword of the stranger

>>1142798
literally neither of those are katanas tho

>>1154827
Aura Kingdom, I think

>>1153652
I guess that's why everyone preferred weapons like the nagitana or a bow compared to using a fat heavy weapon meant only to be used as a backup or secondary weapon

>>1147705
Sword of the stranger is great and I love samurai champloo but that guy's movements make no sense at all beyond looking cool
it's like he's a jedi using force push or something

>>1147764
>everything is bad
>can't explain why anything is bad
0/10

>>1147764
kill yourself

>>1153720
Ah yes, the ever classy stained glass sword.

>>1147764
>Trying this hard

>>1158940
>>1159169
you can also tell he starts the fight overconfident then finds himself outclassed as fuck and becomes more desperate.

>>1161248
YOU DON'T KNOW ME SHUT UP

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anyone Monster hunter?

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>>1161775

>>1146894
It's less the laser swords than the shitty pointless spinning and jumping that would actually make using the sword slower and expose the wielder.

>>1152814
>Fat weaboo on a congolese mango picking forum thinking he knows what actual sparring looks like

>>1142906
sauce on music? i know its from MGS but i forgot the name

I thought this thread would have real sword fights...

Anyone have that webm of Dragon's Dogma where the player charges their sword up and murders a dragon as it dives?

>>1153235
you'd have to disable brain every time you watch a movie with sword fights

other than that it's like blitz chess in esense
works on same muscles as if you'd train for karate(etc.) for years as bonus

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K had a lot of problems as an anime.

>>1163287
It all seemed pretty interesting until the characters opened their mouths, the dialogue killed it imo.

>>1146873

SAO had tons of flaws, the fight choreography was fucking on point though.
At least in the first arc, after EP 12 it started going downhill.

>>1153652

No, it was designed to cut down unarmored peasants.
Against Samurai, you used bows or spears.

>>1161254

That's one of the points that I feel a lot of people forget when they complain that two amateurs could hold down a trained Dark Jedi. He was just lashing out in pure anger, clearly disregarding his training with the exception of a few moves that probably just came with muscle memory, but he was also seriously wounded from Chewies crossbow.

>>1154751
>>1163205

Every parry should be answered by an immediate counter. Also, if parrying, they should not be waiting for the opponent's sword to contact their blade before countering. Also, the one guy is stepping backwards and off balance (on his back foot) in every "7 parry" (equivalent), the correct response to which is a thrust, or, if not allowed, a wrist-to-head strike on the center line. Of course, this is impossible because the opponent's back is bent way too far forward to have any kind of stability on those attacks.

tldr; they look like fucking amateurs.

On sabre they look slightly better, but those blades are way too heavy for them so that they're off center half the time, and the guy on the left is going to damage his knee the way he's balanced.

source: 10 years fencing, kendo, iaido; studied historical Western manuals; inter-weapon and classical experiments with clubbers. HEMA is fine in principle, but if you train bad habits you will never know to fix them.

>>1152819

What even happened? Did the old dude just not intend to kill? Did the other guy have armor under his gi?

>>1154998

Finn is weak against sick spins!

It's super effective!

>>1158552
To be fair, Saya is a vampire so that headwound only hurt at best.

>>1147764
>I'm not even trolling.
So you mean to say you're actually retarded?

>>1142787
#CalmlyRekt

>>1153711
I love it when space wizards get rekt

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>>1142681
My favorite way to sword

>>1147764
I can only assume you're trolling. Nobody can be this inept

>>1166937
The scene where the guy kills the old man is how he imagines how the fight will go down. In his mind, he believes that the old man is incompetent and thus should be an easy fight. The scene after is the actual fight and he get's his shit pushed in.

>>1154528
>>1154531

Never could enjoy any of this series

I still expect my fantasy & Sci-Fi to have even a grain of salt in fact.

She's wearing plate fucking armor, an armored kilt and fighting with a knights longsword. Yet outmaneuvering a spearman in no armor & a samurai.

Nah.


>>1154620
>>1154620
Like these tho.

>>1159166
kek

>>1169362
you completely right
but in the series they say multiple times in the anime that the knight/saber class is best in one on one combat, and the Assassin guy isn't even a real hero so he isnt dope for some reason
besides they all move around unrealistically cuz theyre historical legends (now much stronger than their real-life forms)

>>1142693
i know i seen this before..sauce

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>>1147702
i feel like the music in this is 1000x better.

>>1169456
a certain magical index

>>1153711
god why do mmo's have to ruin everything that is enjoyable about video games?

>>1147705
watching the english dub, ruines 90% of the whole anime

>>1168947
so fake... the guy attacking just turns around like a balarina not really trying to do anything but helping the guy halfswording out

>>1142696
When your DEX/FAITH build is OP

>>1154877
Lost my shit

>>1169481
I feel you're wrong.

>>1169786

No shit. They're choreographed paired forms, in HEMA typically adapted from old fencing manuals, the rough equivalent of Japanese MA kata. Many weapon MAs teach only through kata.

>>1142787
>>1158552

That's what gets me about Star Wars. If Jedi are able to deflect blaster fire with their light sabers, they'd be practically invincible with firearms.

>>1173068

Consider police who in most countries outside the US use melee weapons instead of guns. It's for many good reasons, not least of which are the notions of confrontation and escalation.

The Japanese police for a while in the 20th century carried katana swords, then jo staves after ww2. They still practice kendo as what is essentially one of the five most respected/skilled traditions in the world.

So the Jedi-as-galaxy-police idea gives lightsabers a bit more sense. But obviously it's Rule of Cool.

>>1169131

Idiot drawing a longsword against a shortsword at close range. Reminds me of the exact same thing in Warriors of Heaven and Earth (awesome Chinese film) where the MC described how he defeated his c.o. (after being given an immoral order) who was a superior swordsman by running in close and drawing his shortsword where the instinct of the c.o. was to go first for the longsword.

>badass sword shit
>it's weeb garbage

predictable, but still disappointing

>>1150838
this really represents Guts in the Berserker Armors capabilities pretty well actually

>>1174137
>I'm just gonna complain like a little bitch instead of contributing what I think would be applicable
Predictable, but still disappointing.

>Sword art online in a thread
>no JoJo anywhere
Pig disgusting
https://youtu.be/KPbZDez2rEs

>>1160251
i bet WH40k could make it work. or a stained glass chainsaw gun.

>>1154397
>>1154406
>>1154409
If I knew how to convert MP4 to WEBM, I'd contribute some DFO PvP clips. VLC needs some codec update thing and I'm too stupid so I just download viruses.

Have this instead: https://youtu.be/qDHFWlfTqGY?t=7m

>>1153652
this
praising katanas as a superior sword is retarded, but saying it is a shitty weapon only to be contrary to weeaboos is retarded as well

>>1154543
what make the gameplay different from the ps2 version?

>>1159701
>all that shit
>only reaches S
it always baffles me a bit

>>1169786
oh flower of wisdom, do you actually expect them to try to kill each other in demonstrations and martial arts classes?

>>1161576
The first Garo season was pretty cool.

I don't know what the fuck happened with the second one.

>>1142906
I'm dead. I fucking died.

>>1146894
>Muh incest plot and shitty animu are hated on for no reason

Except the obvious ones.

>>1182637
JC diminishes.

Also DMC4 bases a little bit of the meter on damage and JC if done right shouldnt do damage.

>>1142681
I've never watched the show because it looks gay, but the child in me is satisfied by brightly glowing things moving around rapidly.

>>1169385
Woah, no they move around powerful like that because they are granted power by the Grail for the sole purpose of ruining people's lives and sacrificing them. Also, plate armor isn't like combat packs today, they move rather easily. A samurai is just a fucking asian knight. Samurai aren't super human nor exceedingly unique

>>1182941
That particular one was. His "power" was pretty funny. No super sword, no divine power, no class granted abilities
Nope
Just a sword so fast reality itself gives up trying to follow it and end up with three strikes from one swing.

>>1158940
Showing fury means that they're shit jedi's

>>1183026
well
Duh
one is an ex trooper
the other a Sue who had at most 3-4 years of training.
of course they suck

>>1183031
Actually, its estimated that he was 15-19 when the academy fell, which means he's been training under Snoke for at least ten years.

>>1183005
My understanding was that he isn't even a person. Like, he is the embodiment of people who overplay their feats over beers, if not outright fabricate them.

>>1158940
That just shows how shit of a sith is Kylo to job against Finn

>>1183158
It's explained that he is just the mith of the guy
that's literally just it

>>1182665
Most of the main staffs in the studio went to make the movie Divine Flame and leave the rookies in charge the second seaon

>>1154406
>>1154409
oh damn they actually changed the gameplay.
how much better is it compared to the original?

>>1167691
hiko's crazy.
if only he gave a shit.

>>1169481
You need Afro Samurai

>>1147764
Fucks sakes man, sword of the stranger is immaculate. What do you think swordfights look like? Not even backflips for you?

>>1182467
They're taking their turns, just like good mooks do.

>>1169786
you have so much experience in this.. wow.. You know that armor and all this shit is actually heavy, after blow, cinect energy would turn you after proper block..

>>1184277
he is just Mount&Blade fan

>>1169362
I think the armor is made out of MAGIC

>>1155084
What do you think actual swords are?

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>>1184377

>>1153304
fucking kek

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>>1184394

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>>1184422

>>1147705
I have always ignored anime and thought that it was just the lamest shit with little girls getting dicked, but after seeing this i realized that while that was true anime also has a complete disregard for physics. Wosrt shit i've seen by a longshot. Fakin weebs ruining everything.

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>>1150911
Reed file name you Fuckhead

>>1153235
HEMA is the dopest shit.

>>1161775
I love monster hunter but swords are gay in it tbqhwyf.

>>1168947
>well shit i guess that is how you hold a sword.webm

>>1184457
That show is not in anyway meant to be taken seriously you edgy little faggot.

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>>1163244
Its Monsoon's theme from Metal Gear Rising: Revengance

>>1152819
Zatoichi's ridiculous. I love it, but it's silly as fuck.

>>1169362
>>1184390

Plate armor is custom-made-to-fit and can be ridiculously light and maneuverable. It'd be pretty useless if it weren't.

>>1147705
I hate how samurai champloo used stuff like this. the majority of the show (excluding the native american guy, and the chi dude) seemed pretty realistic and was great for it, then out of nowhere the last 2 episodes had terrible random villains that were walking tropes and this OP guy, not to mention how jin and mugen are suddenly fucking invincible.

talk about ending on a bad note

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>>1185852

>>1185512
>seemed pretty realistic
Did you even know watch the same show as everyone else?

>>1169362
>I have a problem with a magical knight being faster than a samurai
>bullets being smacked away by swords is totally acceptable though

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

>>1183291
>Finn falls into coma
>stormtroopers clearly have melee training
>Kylo is both mentally disturbed and got shot with a rocket launcher
>his training isn't even complete yet
I still don't get how people get upset over that scene.

>>1147764
>dissing Nujabes
kys

>>1184503
I don't mean to be contrarian, but that was an actual thing people actually did.

Plenty of old European swords didn't have a sharp edge going all the way down, and holding it "backwards" was a viable way to use the pommel and guard as striking tools.

>>1186362
That's an /tg/ meme.

>>1186362
>Plenty of old European swords didn't have a sharp edge going all the way down

yeah, right, because it was so expensive to sharpen the blade
are you retarded?

>>1146894
>enjoying animation in non OVA/Movie anime
doesnt happen

>>1186412
It was intentionally left blunt to allow halfswording. Besides with armored units fighting it was more about mauling and pummeling instead of clean cool animu cuts and slashes.

>>1186418
you have no idea how halfswording works

there is not single evidence that swords were ever left blunt - there is no reason to do so

>>1186440
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricasso
Sorry sensei, I concede.

>>1186470
Well, I just wasted like 4 minutes typing a reply. Good on you for admitting your mistake though.

>>1184459
Greave-ous bodily harm

>>1147764
Think you're the only one with a shit opinion?

>>1153720
>juden
'nuff said OLOLOL

>>1142693
>tfw it never went anywhere with her
index was so disappointing. At least railgun was great.

>>1142696
Was it necessary to destroy an entire city block to take out one nacho libre lookin faggot with a 9mm?

>>1186721
There's no kill like overkill.

>>1173234
that made 0 sense

>>1144043
it's like that one scene from berserk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1l5m-h6Ugo

seems appropriate

>>1186362
>>1186412

It's in the fucking fencing manuals from the 15th century onward.

The assumption is that you wear gauntlets, not that the sword isn't sharpened at the base (it's less sharp, but you still couldn't get stable good grip on it even if were blunt with bare hands -- you need rigid gauntlets).

>>1147764
If i give you another (you) will you open your legs? you slut

>>1154620
source?

>>1187175
nvm, i found it, Yozakura Quartet

>>1182467
why did berserk have to get a fucking cgi reboot

>>1169481
music is much better but it cuts too much of the fight out

not sure which is better

>>1142685
> the river texture is mirrored

Holy fuck it's glaring.

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It technically counts

>>1184367

"cinect energy"

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all this weeb shit

>>1153716
>>1154924

>designed to cut >flesh

You two must be retarded

>>1167547
Kylo is inspired by his grandfather.
Of course he knows spinning is a good trick.

>>1153611
im jealous, I dont have the money to continue doing mine. Also the people in my gym were fucking weirdos

>>1146873
not because the anime was bad means the animation and the fight coregraphy was bad too
characters sucked , plot sucked , but animation in fight scenes was on point
especially this one...
also
>>>/a/
but i doubt we need you there

>>1182909
>because it looks gay
i can't stop laughing

>>1148569
they're different from the basic structure, and used on different things
katana is made to be flexible and made to cut so it was made sharp but not hard, samurai didn't use them to fight much, only retards think that it was their main weapon.
european swords are made to deliver heavy blows and clash with other weapons/block
i learnt swordsmanship myself tho not much
this test proves the weapons hardness only, the guy's stance is neat, he swings well, so on this test it's the european sword's win

samefagging
>>1190225
>>1148569

also, misusing the word weeb when there aren't any and spouting it at everything japanese related is pretty retarded when you're on 4chan

>>1159429
yeah the second one, that is supposed to be one is like a bad imitation

>>1186831
it's like a lot of scenes from berserk

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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

>>1190966
SHIT I THOUGHT I ABORTED IT HOW DO I DELETE POST

>>1153720
That's just fucking awful.

It's 2000 fucking 16. Stop using gifs and learn how to make webms, with sound also.

>>1191012

Gif's are forever webms are just a fad.

>>1190969
Yeah, all that anime there. I wish you NIPPED this in the bud too.

>>1191021
gifs are an ancient relic of the past. They may still have a purpose, but this is no longer an acceptable one.

>>1190966
>saving overshit webms

>>1187967
Guys can i get a source?

>>1142693
Mister can I have some sauce plz

>>1142696
Gib souce pls

>>1189978
Fucking love this movie.

>>1142681
you first

>>1150664
> 20(14? 15?)
> still using floppy prop-swords that look fake as hell

>>1153235
>Am i autistic for thinking that could be fun?
I swear the use of autist scales directly with the number of teenagers presently on the boards.

>>1169786
It's like it's a demonstration or something.

>>1188355
> reboot
I do not think that means what you think it means.

>>1189953
>>1189978
saws baws
Is it The Duelist?

No Ninja Scroll?

FUCK YOU.

>>1191509
>he doesn't know about the rubber pencil trick
The sword props weren't floppy. That was an optical illusion

>>1191521

The first is Barry Lyndon.

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>>1191545
Then why do none of the gifs/webms of actual sword fights, or indeed any of the other movies, look floppy?

>>1191380
it's literally the fukin filename

>>1191095
the game was announced in april last year

>>1191885
sorry, wrong thread

>>1150823
sauce

>>1191902
That's the real world, johnny.

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swords and zombies.

>>1154798
>>1154867
Both guys in htat webm are Riders. Black-eyed dude is Kamen Rider Skull.

I'm gonna need some king bradley in here ASAP

>>1192255
this

>>1186688
Killer Bee's fighting style is the stupidest shit ever.
I love it.

Can someone post some CLANG

>>1191640

Depends on a lot of things -- notably a lot of choreography will be done faster than the film speed (i.e. slower than it appears on film). This can prevent the illusion from forming since other visual cues won't be there.

Also it depends on the school of stage-fencing, of which the Japs are very disciplined -- you swing a sword differently (and use a different weight/balance sword) for raw speed versus kendo/fencing versus cutting practice or kata. Actually, come to think of it, it's probably this more than anything -- if you lever the sword high and early so it swings in a long arc it's a lot less likely to get the rubber-pencil effect since the fulcrum is so far inside your body, versus if you lever the sword when it's past your face as you would when fencing/sparring.

>>1184392
I meant western swords and not shitty ass katanas.

>>1190225

This is pretty much 100% incorrect, even as a generalization.

The proper generalization would be that the late-era dress katana had a soft core and hard exterior, which made it stiffer to small stresses than the late Medieval European two-handed longswords. The Euro 2H were in general soft exteriors around a harder core (both had quenched edges that extended from the hard steel part, of course), so they were more readily flexible.

And no swords from either continent from any era were meant to "clash" or "block". You "deflect", "receive", "beat", "parry", etc., which means that you don't take the full force or the full edge of an opponent's weapon but move it or move with it. Anybody who tells you otherwise is an idiot who has never actually fenced and has misread the historical manuals.

>>1168947
The issue here is, the reaction assumes that the opponent is using a standard stance. The half sword is never shows against someone also using a half sword stance. Plow, house and fools are all well and good but if you're making the presumption that armour requires such a stance then how do you counter your opponent making the same judgement?

>>1189965
Those are some nice binds. Too bad binding is retarded and usually gets both opponents killed.

>>1154998
It looks like a medieval arming sword to me but I am no expert.

>>1196178

That's not binding, moron. They stop because that's the end of the form -- i.e., one person "killed" the other.

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>>1147764

>>1189965
Most of those winning angles/strikes would have no power behind them and if actually facing a foe would be a mild inconvenience at best, nevermind damaging. This is why I hate 'first touch' combat. They focus on getting in a slight tap that wouldn't do a goddamn thing while leaving themselves WIDE open for a halfway decent counter

>>1196413
That OVA's soundtrack is too fucking good.

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>>1196413
Forgot I had a better version of this.

>>1196439
the music of this oav was outstanding

>>1196412
Something to consider is that many of these techniques come from manuals used to instruct individuals in combat for dueling or trial by combat, which was often to first blood (or a set number of bloods). Even in a fight to the death, a wound to the opponent can only hinder them, be it an arm wound that limits mobility or a head wound that bleeds into the eyes.

Also, those stabs may not look very damaging with blunt swords but with a sharp period longsword, you can get some very serious wounds with a thrust without a whole lot of power behind it. They're actually thrusting way harder than they'd need to to inflict serious damage.
Same deal with the cuts. They may not look all that impressive when people are beating on each other with blunt swords, and the cuts might not remove limbs if the swords were sharp, but you don't need to spectacularly dismember someone to seriously injure them. If you can hit quickly enough to injure your opponent while staying unharmed yourself, it's generally worth injuring your opponent then instead of waiting for the moment to ultra-kill them.
On the subject of countering, it's really much easier said than done and generally, if you're an experienced swordsman, especially one following the German schools, your movements should both attack and defend at the same time. It might not look like it, but the "winner" in each of those forms is relatively safe from a counterattack as his opponent is either off-balance, has his sword blocked, or cannot easily maneuver his sword to make an effective hit.

>>1169362
>5th/6th century AD
>plate

>>1193023
he's a martial artist at heart, the swords seem to be just a distraction

>>1196177
Presumably it would be for when the opponent has good armor and you don't.

>>1185504
This is true. The bigger problem with the Fate Stay Night clip is that her armor is incomplete and is fucking dumb. it seems custom made to guarantee that she'll be hit in the upper chest, arms, and head, which is exactly where most people would be aiming anyway.

>>1142787
What anime is this from?

>>1147705
fucking. love. this. show.

>>1196491
agreed

>>1196394
Some of that was clearly binding m8.

>>1192008
isn't that the new attack on shitans season?

>>1192008
Just marathoned this last night
>not posting webm of the Wazatori

>>1188497
Is this from fucking power rangers?