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Congratulations to the winner and to everyone who fought and fought hard!

Congrats to the winner, the participants, and the organizers. Sounds like it was a great tourney!

Congratulations Roland!

Great Job Boys! See you again next year...

A beautiful piece! ^^ thanks for sharing 💖🙏🏻 x

Really interesting and nice to hear both the context and traits related to each of the weapons.

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Excellent video. Thanks. I myself have fallen hook line and sinker to the dojo lore. I have a number of Taiji and Wudang swords. Very light very flexible, POB right in front of the hilt with a front facing hand guard. I have another sword heavy maybe 1.5kg POB 75/100mm from the hilt with a hand guard facing back. I find it jerks when I swing it and the guard digs into my hand. I guess I just need to learn how to use it.

Fascinating stuff. As a note, European (Italian) swordsmanship includes an occasional stamp called an appel. It's used for s few things, including testing weight distribution. But it's also used to startle opponents and make feints more convincing. Not too argue with you, but I'm willing to believe the stamp in the form might actually be useful to scare opponents.

honestly i think its better just to say opponent rather than dui fang

Jians in the Ming/Qing style just does not look as elegant and pretty as the they were in Han dynasty. Don’t know why taste changed in like a bad way in later periods. The fittings developed lately were all bulky and weird in my opinion. But some say they handle well which I’m not sure if that has anything to do with the aesthetics.

How sweet is that. Agree about the tip. It looks rounded like a recent repair following a loss of material. My fav jian has a much finer tip. Loads of character when it has a good shape there. Overall nice piece, Master Rodell.

A nice blade, love the idea of that locking mechanism. The tip would make me a little nuts but an interesting blade none the less. Thank you Rodell Laoshi for the video/information. Have a great one.

藍翎侍衛 confused for a long time about what “lanlinshiwei” is........ Blue Feather Guard，the fourth rank among the Qing emperor's personal retinue bodyguards，established at 90men.Selected through martial arts examination as an officer candidate. Han Chinese is a language based on ideograms, which is difficult to distinguish using pronunciation alone. the releaser，called 綳簧（benhuang），A device that often appears in the oral stories of Chinese street performers, but in fact should not have appeared until after the Ming Dynasty, because the ability to produce this elastic metal was not previously available. unfortunately there are currently no extant or unearthed specimens in China.

I really like the hushou (crossguard). I haven't seen many that look like that.

Nice sword! I love the idea of a metal scabbard.

Thanks Gavin for great overview of gloves on the market.

What happened to the two-handed sword from before? Has it been fully restored? It seems like I haven't seen it for a long time.

Chinese sword takes a long time

I've always wondered about shield use in Chinese military arts. Loved the illustrations of troop formations.

Is the back edge every sharpened towards/at the tip section, or is it just simply thinner for weight/smithing reason?

Dont do that at home , easy to get a piece of wood sharpinel in the eye ...

Excellent video.. you really know your stuff!

Why in the world are all you guys locking the string like that.....I don't believe such a lock has sufficient strength ....having a thumb position below the middle knuckle of the middle finger

Early days 時候 ， swords客是保衛家園不給別人過來，就是些壞人！我們要保衛自己的土地和財務！

I like the analogy of the air-painter. Must be nice having that bamboo at the ready on the property. For bottles, it's a similar thing where some are very easy, but some types can be much harder (thin regular waterbottle vs thicker vitamin water bottle etc).

The music is perfect for this

very nice video, master, thank you for share

some of them probably had European made sabre blades because during the early modern era blades manufactured in Germany were exported and can sold to various parts of the globe where they were hilted locally

Awesome lesson.

Duan Jian sword?

Thank you, Sir

Hello Mr Rodell, I noticed that the husho has a hole/opening next to the central rectangular section. This is seen on Japanese tsuba so that a kozuka or a kogai that is sitting on the side of the saya can be pulled out through the tsuba. I am not very familiar with Chinese swords. Did they also have things like small knives embedded into the side of the sheath? If not do you think this hole could simply be from emulating the Japanese or just for decoration? I’d like to know your thoughts

Thanks Scott learning More thanks to you

Great presentation! Very informative.

Beautiful Hushou! I would've completely overlooked the Qilin and thought they were Dragons had you not pointed them out.

Sifu, is it wrong that I want to put this guard on a katana? Aha just sayin, very interesting stuff.

Thank you Laoshi. Great martial, historical and artistic analysis as always.

You never have to hope we enjoy watching you. You are Amazing.

Bro, you make it look like a butter knife going through soft butter. You have some serious precision too. Clean cutting artist.

You look great. I watch your videos and try my best to learn on my own. You are a wonderful teacher Sifu.

Thank you so much for sharing great teacher.

That's a really nice artifact, and your presentation was fascinating. Qilin are one of my favouirite mythological creatures! Is the smaller aperture to the side of the main one for a kozuka (小柄 xiaobing)? If so, would the original Chinese sword have had that, or was it modified when it was refitted for use with a katana? It looks a bit like the qilin on that side had his back removed to make room for it.

Gorgeous husho! Thanks so much for going into the detail of the creature which I easily would have overlooked as a dragon. These katana mounted guards certainly can be interesting between those made in Japan, and China, and if they made specifically for export or retrofitted!

Thank you! very nice!

I tried stabbing with hard blade, the blade made the sound, but how do i check if I'm stabbing it right?

'Don't pick a weapon because it feels good to you.' That is, in truth, what choosing your weapon should be. To choose the weapon that feels good to you.

In actual practice, 'the Jian seems akin to either the primary thrust of European rapier or cuts of later English backsword of Silver.' Here in these forms it seems as though partially based on the Byzantine one-handed sword. The Ming-Dao sword is more akin to the German messer, the falchion.'

Yeah but he's shooting it at the Target not at the man cute at the man and see if he can do that

So far, out of all the bladed weapons i have seen...this is one that appears most to my liking. Mind you I haven't tried it out myself to see if the weight would be a negative.