Infected Sword Enthusiasts - folded up to a million times!

[Lord of Cinder]

If these people love Japanese swords so much, why dont they get into kendo? Sure a bamboo sword like a Shinai maybe a little less...flashy. But it's certainly better then posting edgy, shit on youtube and them acting like monkeys, instead of respecting the blade. Heck, they could go into Iadio, if they wanted to use a metal blade. But alas...autism.

 

[sugoi-chan]

If these people love Japanese swords so much, why dont they get into kendo? Sure a bamboo sword like a Shinai maybe a little less...flashy. But it's certainly better then posting edgy, shit on youtube instead of them acting like monkeys, instead of respecting the blade. Heck, they could go into Iadio, if they wanted to use a metal blade. But alas...autism.

Kendo doesn't look as cool as the swordplay in anime.

 

[TheMightyMonarch]

This thread reminds me of a scene from Venture Bros. "Why do you swords guys have to talk about how cool your swords are?"

And of course most of the weebs on here are lardasses.

 

[fireatdawn]

A lot of these tards are obsessed with katanas, but aren't katanas actually shitty IRL? Especially in comparison to like a broadsword or something?

 

[Van Darkholme]

My M3 can beat your gook swords.
Fite me nerds.

 

[Vitriol]

A lot of these tards are obsessed with katanas, but aren't katanas actually shitty IRL? Especially in comparison to like a broadsword or something?

that is a discussion for off topic.

 

[Ravenor]

I'm really glad these kinda guy's have thread now.

You'll occasionally see the Beefeater guards with a pike or a halberd, and I'm sure they've showed up in battle scenes in plenty of movies.

They're not particularly glorious and were often seen as peasant weapons (because they often were), but if you have a sword and I have a halberd, I don't care how good a sword it is, you're not getting to me with it. You're going to be well out of range unless you throw it at me or something.

The history of pole arms is really intresting, and your dead on the money they where mostly viewed a low class or pesants tool of war mostly because they where just modified field tools and mostly the modification was just putting it on the end of a long shaft, this lead to them being taxed by size in some areas according to some things I have read as a way to keep the locals unarmed or pose less of a threat.

lynne thompson runs Cold Steel Knives

Cold Steel are a bit of a joke, about the only product of theirs I have ever used was that special forces shovel and even then it was for bait digging when I'm on a long distance fishing trip and I don't know where to get local lug from.

The sad thing is that a medieval zombie apocalypse book could be good, if it was written by someone with actual writing skills and historical knowledge, and without autism. But I'm willing to bet my keyboard that his medieval zombie apocalypse is just an excuse to write a gary stu killing zombies with a sword (probably a katana, too. In medieval Europe.).

Max Brooks did a short story about this in his "Recorded attacks" graphic novel, it was prity damned nice to read and was a lot of fun.

 

[Melkor]

Lol what a bunch of nerds.

 

[Vitriol]

I'm really glad these kinda guy's have thread now.



The history of pole arms is really intresting, and your dead on the money they where mostly viewed a low class or pesants tool of war mostly because they where just modified field tools and mostly the modification was just putting it on the end of a long shaft, this lead to them being taxed by size in some areas according to some things I have written as a way to keep the locals unarmed or pose less of a threat.



Cold Steel are a bit of a joke, about the only product of theirs I have ever used was that special forces shovel and even then it was for bait digging when I'm on a long distance fishing trip and I don't know where to get local lug from.



Max Brooks did a short story about this in his "Recorded attacks" graphic novel, it was prity damned nice to read and was a lot of fun.

Did someone say polearms? And Coldsteel??

yeah i agree btw- coldsteel is way overpriced indian knockoffs.

 

[Ravenor]

Did someone say polearms? And Coldsteel??

yeah i agree btw- coldsteel is way overpriced indian knockoffs.

Oh for fucks sake....

 

[Chuggernaut]

Is he wearing a jumpsuit at the start?

 

[Anchuent Christory]

A lot of these tards are obsessed with katanas, but aren't katanas actually shitty IRL? Especially in comparison to like a broadsword or something?

At the end of the day, there's simply far more mass in a broadsword, but I don't think actual combat ever really involved blades being swung full force at each other. edge on edge. "Superior Katana" is a stupid concept anyway as neither weapon was ever designed to be used against each other.

The reason the Katana is obsessed over because it's really the only weapon that has an huge amounts of romanticism attached to it by it's parent culture. To western warriors, the sword was really just at tool, but with a Samurai, it was more an extension of himself and a physical symbol of what he was. It was also his badge of office so to speak and a sign of his status due to the fact that commoners weren't allowed to bear one.

So you take all this mysticism and transplant it to the west and in true weeb fashion, the fetishists cherry pick the elements that appeal to them and ignore all the codes of conduct that went with it, minor things like self betterment and introspection.

 

[Mark Corrigan]

@Vitriol has already mentioned Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria earlier in this thread. I'd only like to point to a series of his videos where he basicaly calls out katana on what it is - a very decent sword crafted in very specific Japanese conditions which wouldn't necessarily be very useful on a European battlefield. Unlike many HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) spergs, he can actually speak a coherent, understandable English.

His katana playlist:

 

[Broseph Stalin]

Katanas are total shit. They were pretty much ceremonial blades back in the samurai days, and from what I recall steel can only be folded about 20 times or so.

 

[Vitriol]

At the end of the day, there's simply far more mass in a broadsword, but I don't think actual combat ever really involved blades being swung full force at each other. edge on edge. "Superior Katana" is a stupid concept anyway as neither weapon was ever designed to be used against each other.

The reason the Katana is obsessed over because it's really the only weapon that has an huge amounts of romanticism attached to it by it's parent culture. To western warriors, the sword was really just at tool, but with a Samurai, it was more an extension of himself and a physical symbol of what he was. It was also his badge of office so to speak and a sign of his status due to the fact that commoners weren't allowed to bear one.

So you take all this mysticism and transplant it to the west and in true weeb fashion, the fetishists cherry pick the elements that appeal to them and ignore all the codes of conduct that went with it, minor things like self betterment and introspection.

@Vitriol has already mentioned Matt Easton of Scholagladiatoria earlier in this thread. I'd only like to point to a series of his videos where he basicaly calls out katana on what it is - a very decent sword crafted in very specific Japanese conditions which wouldn't necessarily be very useful on a European battlefield. Unlike many HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) spergs, he can actually speak a coherent, understandable English.

His katana playlist:

Katanas are total shit. They were pretty much ceremonial blades back in the samurai days, and from what I recall steel can only be folded about 20 times or so.

I think this qualifies as infected, As I said earlier if you want to talk about swords do so in off topic.

 

[Broseph Stalin]

Oh shit, I can already hear the heavy nose breathing of the keyboard warriors getting ready to call me out...

 

[DavidFerrie]

Unless they're decorative or ceremonial, swords are for fat weeb autists.

Men fight with knives.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

At the end of the day, there's simply far more mass in a broadsword, but I don't think actual combat ever really involved blades being swung full force at each other. edge on edge. "Superior Katana" is a stupid concept anyway as neither weapon was ever designed to be used against each other.

The reason the Katana is obsessed over because it's really the only weapon that has an huge amounts of romanticism attached to it by it's parent culture. To western warriors, the sword was really just at tool, but with a Samurai, it was more an extension of himself and a physical symbol of what he was. It was also his badge of office so to speak and a sign of his status due to the fact that commoners weren't allowed to bear one.

So you take all this mysticism and transplant it to the west and in true weeb fashion, the fetishists cherry pick the elements that appeal to them and ignore all the codes of conduct that went with it, minor things like self betterment and introspection.

Real samurai didn't see their swords as anything more than tools either. Sure there were some edicts about "oh once it's drawn you better kill someone" but that existed in the West too.

Actual historical samurai were more analagous to modern-day biker gangs than anyone else. Most of them were petty thugs who constantly got into dickwaving contests, with peasants caught in the middle. Shopowners and innkeepers hated them because they were constantly starting fights.

Idiot mall ninjas gravitate to katanas because of anime. Original anime took a lot of cues from old Japanese samurai movies, which themselves were just romanticized feel good pieces meant to hark back to an era before Japan got put on a leash for all its bullshit during WWII.

Weaboos being weaboos, they take anime at face value, which itself takes the Japanese version of spaghettie westerns at face value.

 

[CatParty]

literally everyone who owns a sword:

literally everyone who owns a knife:

literally everyone who owns a gun:

 

[Anchuent Christory]

Well in my defence, the majority of my post was about why I feel these people obsess over their chosen blade.

Anyway, in other news...