im afraid escrima and martial arts teachs you nothing about true swordfighting, and thats something you can take to the bank, along with me doing this for 22 years and me teaching as well. the nature of a katana is not to cut someone in half but to simply slice them open, a broadsword DOES cut you in half, through bone and muscle. whats more the actual power and streagnth needed to chop a man in half with a broadsword is very little, it's all proper technique and the sword itself. whats more bigger people, in swordfighting, does not mean you win more, unless you practise some of teh crazy crap out there currently in the martial arts world. we have currently three really tall chaps, one toned and muscular and the other two quite large and round, they beat the beginers who have done this for a week, but they have trouble with people doing it the same time as them, and they have more trouble beating me and im just belove your average highted person. My mother whos the full instructer creams them all and shes smaller than me. hight has nothign to do with it in swordfighting, if your tought properly you can over come any obsticle.
i unfortunatly watched this new form of swordfighting in california where they just belted each other and the only way one won was for the other to give up...it was pathetic...they just kept waking each other and ignoring any blows that came in, then they had the cheek to say this was realistic.....how long youw you last ignoring blows in the real world, not long. we teach you to parry and block and attack and win a fight cleanly without being wounded, we also teach you to do this against multiple opponants from two to every one in the class. i did it just two weeks ago and had to fight all eleven studdants at once, i got a cut on the thigh but otherwise i beat them all. i dont work out, sure im vegetarian, but chip buttys can give you a bit of a tummy lol.
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