Subdeacon Joe Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Thoughts: Either them boys was awful short, or rapiers were longer than I've expected they were. I thought they had a blade about three feet, but that looks closer to four. Since the guy with the rapier was a switch hitter, when the katana chopped his right arm off he should have just picked up the sword and continued with his left. Ain't he never seen Holy Grail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 It appeared to me that the Katana swordsman would have been punctured in the middle right abdomen as he struck the right forearm of the Rapier swordsman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joeronimo Caffiend Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Sheesh.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 O find it amusing that a European and Japanese art being performed by Koreans hasn't caused the universe to collapse from cultural appropriation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 Each one patient, each one powerful, each one deadly ... Thank you for this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 11 hours ago, Alpo said: Thoughts: Either them boys was awful short, or rapiers were longer than I've expected they were. I thought they had a blade about three feet, but that looks closer to four. Since the guy with the rapier was a switch hitter, when the katana chopped his right arm off he should have just picked up the sword and continued with his left. Ain't he never seen Holy Grail? Well yeah, they ain't basketball players. The average Rapier blade length is 41". We're used to seeing Epees and Foils in modern fencing. They are several inches shorter. Here's an interesting (to me anyway) comparison of fencing and dueling swords. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYgWrGHIVg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 The 1977 film The Duellists, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, is a great film if you like Napoleanic sword[play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 1, 2021 Author Share Posted May 1, 2021 19 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: The 1977 film The Duellists, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, is a great film if you like Napoleanic sword[play. Like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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