favorite type of sword

[Giga Guess]

If it means anything, I don't think I have it in me to actively try to hurt someone. ^_^

[Snowman]

we all do, but most people arent in touch with what and who they really are. ive learnt to understand, accept and tame my inner beasts, so i work with them rather than viaing for control. others surrender to that side of them, becoming violent because they lack character or inner streaghth while most normal people simply are unaware of where that inner beast lives and rarely encounter it like a big fat sleeping dog who loves sausages. with teh right trigger, you would kill someone easily for your sausages. we are only animals.

the sword can help us learn to tame that inner beast. bring a child up around knifes, let them learn how to use one and why they are dangerous, and that child wont cut itself as a man.

[Giga Guess]

Heh. I've met one of the aforementioned. We had a little yardstick fight. I WAS trying to pull my punches, he WAS trying to forcibly remove my head. To the plus side, I learned my reflexes were better than I thought....

[Inuyasha23]

47 replies and 16 of them are actually talking about their favorite type of sword

[Ultima Shadow]

47 replies and 16 of them are actually talking about their favorite type of sword

WOW, that means it's... 31 interesting posts that I actually enjoy reading!

[Erased]

If someone hadn't gone and closed it, I'd have voted for Katana.
"The only real sword is a Japanese sword." Saitoh, Rurouni Kenshin. Man, was he right. Had Kodachi been up there, I'd much rather slaughter someone that way - err... fight with no intention of winning... right.

Oh yeah - Snowman, You're really bugging me. Mostly because I know your right and I never really thought of it. Nice insight ^^

[Snowman]

Hey Giga..ive had many fo those exact moments, even from people who classed themselves as close freinds lol, once i lost it and beat up a mate with a plastic coke bottle lol, it wasnt eh coke bottle he was scared of as much as my manic look whahaha.
thats how you learn what your capable of in a fight, everything else is practise lol, if the reflexes arent there, then they wont ever be.

Inuyasha....havent i seen you dweling in TFrealm. looking at swords but not wanting to use them, or bing interested in useing them is like being a stamp collector or looking at pencils...boreing and a bit pretentous

im glad your interested Ultima.

thanxx Erased, why let it bug you. trick is..everyone can fight their own way, but you have to accept when your fighting has loads of holes in it and is poor because your loosing al the time.

as for a katana being the best sword.....it's all imagination, youve gotta be blind, deaf, slow, crippled and carnt be btoherd to let someone with a katana beat you. styles vary, but teh facts are teh facts, single edged, brittle, small gaurds, curved, rigid "natural" combat style. Nothing wrong with bokkens..wooden swords are a valuable, great weapon. you can kill as easily as with a steel sword, they are light, manuverable, replaceable and dont suffer from shape like a steel katana can. it's like a knife, they can open a tin of beans, but they arent as good as a tin opener


top tip

you know if your leanring how to fight well IF -

When you fight, you can win without being hit, or rather fight without being hit.
thers people out there...especially in teh USA who think that sword fighting is simply bashing each other over the head untill one fo you gives in. no defence, no actual fighting..just braying heck out of each other, theres others who will teach you moves that can get your fingers cut off by gripping the blade, that teach you never to defend but simply be the fastest to hit.
THIS is where common sense comes in, no matter what these people say, how long do you think you would last fighting opponants for real if you just let them hit you....even small cuts can become infected.
You are able to fight and win without eeven getting a scratch if you know what your doing, this is the basic fact of fighting.

so if someone tells you simply to bash away, no defence or care, no ability or skill, you know that persons talking out of their backside

Don't double post. -Murder

[Giga Guess]

Agreed.

[Snowman]

the path of a warrior is an individual one, every fight is individual, only you are there, no ones gonna help you, it has to be your skill and heart. many are defeated before they raise a blade.

i weild chivalry and honer, to be anything other is lazy. im vege, i hate mankind for the evil it's done under teh title of ignorance and teh right of might. so i remain strong, powerful. i stand as the thing which bad people dont want to come across, and when they do i make sure they dont get up again. being good doesnt have to mean being helpless. helplessness is simply a choice and liberty