#sword stuff

[shinycr0w]

i have a burning desire to forge a sword

how

[um-jammer-tranny]

woah ask to Cara

you are so fucking pretty i go a little more feral every time i see your pics, i wish i could look as good as you

also random question but what is your favorite kind of sword?

ahk youre very sweet 👉👈 ive been trying to find the motivation to take more but the lens has not been so kind lately

i think my favorite might be the odachi? but hook swords up there too. honorable mention to kusarigama its not a sword exactly but i love her so much

dishonorable mention to the estoc cause i dont tuck

[necromatador]

Heyo stranger! Nice to meet you I'm aggy! Based on you correction in that longswords vs rapiers post, you seem to know a thing or two about uhh, is modern swordplay the correct term? Anyhoo i was wondering if you could tell me what the range of weapons used is like, do people use anything besides rapiers and swords? Sorry to bother you thanks for your time!!

Hi there, friend!  I just saw your reblog of the post!

I’ve got a roommate who’s been involved in HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts, which covers a LOT more than just rapier and longsword, I’ll get to that in a second) for almost 2 years now, and I myself just started longsword classes at the start of February.  It’s a little expensive, but usually beginner’s classes aren’t too bad.  Unless you start getting into buying ALL the equipment, which hopefully the place should have loaners for newbies so you can spread the cost of your own out should you decide to continue long enough to need your own gear.

If you want to find a place near you that could teach you, I recommend searching here: https://www.hemaalliance.com/

Anyway, besides rapiers and longswords, depending on what/who you can find to teach you there could be: smallsword, sword and buckler, staff, polearm, archery, dagger, weird stuff like flails or sickles/scythes, and even ringen (a form of wrestling/grappling).  Here’s a sort of run-down on those if you want.  Again, it all depends on who you can find near you to teach you.  Some places also double-up and teach weapons from non-European sources!  And others will have guests come in for single-day workshops on the basics of different weapons that the club doesn’t personally offer.

I wish you luck if you decide to pursue this as a hobby!  It’s a lot of fun, if a bit of physical effort (though that might just be me because I went in with absolutely NO physical conditioning whatsoever, haha).

[rotbarts-travelchest]

Sword journal 4/17/2026:

Not a fighting documentation this time, but an armor repair one! I got some much-needed (see: necessary) repairs done this evening.

I fixed up my straps on my shoulders, tightening them up so they flop around a lot less and will hopefully tear my houppelande less

Additionally, one outta two swords made! This one was just for basic plastic basket hilt, cuz that's what I had. The next will be for the fancier metal one I have, and that's gonna be sweet

NOTES FOR MY FUTURE SELF:

Wide part of the handle goes towards the back of the cup hilt! Writing this down so I don't forget it in the future.

[nonbinaryavrage]

I meant to say "if you had your ears pierced, I would make you shitty sword earrings" and I almost said "if I was a lesbian, I would make you shitty sword earrings"

[cyrus-twilight]

Decided id do swordtember this year

Not doing them in any order and im a little late to it, but heres what i have so far

[delsshitposts]

I find it weird that despite being right-handed, I feel more comfortable holding a sword in my left hand.

[caffeinatedkt]

So I’m teaching an intro foil class, typical 8 week format, mixed teenager and adults. It’s a very accelerated pace, due to the short schedule, but we try to otherwise do things pretty traditionally, with the idea of starting people off with the basics in foil. If they like fencing generally, then if they want to transition to older spada, rapier or sabre, they have a solid grounding in the basics, and have a sense of whether they want to invest more in their own equipment at that point. Also, we only have to provide one class’ worth of weapons, rather than breaking the bank with a class full of 16mm Castille dueling sabres (or intro rapiers). We finished our second week of this session last night, and this time our groups skews younger than average. We have five young teenage guys who all started, and, my goodness, I am glad we have a lower age limit on this. They stay on task better than younger kids would, but a couple of them haven’t hit their growth spurts yet, so they are really small dudes (one of them basically could use the Italian foils we use in class as a rapier). It certainly makes teaching interesting when you have a 65+ year old, 6+ foot tall retiree, and a 4’6” (at best) 13 year old in the same mix for pair drills about finding fencing distance and lunge distance.