#sword tag

[elizabysmal]

tucking in my sword #mysword

[magnetism-model-red]

smash or pass: the members of SWORD

x drake: pass, but respectfully

koby: smash, i wanna see what his loud mouth can do

hibari: pass

helmeppo: ehh…. depends on the day i guess

everyone else: pass

[ttechniic]

pudao - chinese sword

[shalei]

gonna be teaching myself hema (historical european martial arts) starting tomorrow when my synthetic training sword gets here 😌 finally living out my childhood dreams of becoming a wandering swordsman

[aureliobooks]

you have... you have a sword?

oh!! well, before you get your hopes up, it’s not steel! i practice hema (historical european martial arts) and do my drills with a synthetic longsword, which is a practice weapon made to mimic the weight, balance, and historical accuracy of a real blade. synthetic blades are a bit safer to practice with than steel or wood, because while you can still get hurt fairly easily with a nylon “blade” you cut down significantly on the possibility of accidentally maiming yourself or your training partner :’) once you’re more skilled people tend to move on to feders and then possibly to dull steel or sharp steel, but it all depends on your preferences and (if you compete) what the competitive requirements are in tournaments.

personally i’m self-taught and still a beginner, and as there are no clubs in my area that teach hema i don’t have anyone to spar with yet, but i’m mainly studying the german schools of longsword technique, and very much enjoying it. i’m not sure i’ll ever feel the need to transition to using steel—and honestly the price alone is enough to make me see stars—but either way i’m still too new at it all to wield a “real” sword safely, so at the moment my training setup is a synthetic blade, a shovel i stuck in the ground as a rather sad imitation of a pell, and my increasingly sore arms.

[orchidscript]

I’m a sucker for pretty swords so like 👌👌👌

Oh, anon, we have several circulating in family attics and basements. This is the only one I’ve ever been able to acquire though — and it is by far the prettiest! (That’s def because it’s only 103 years old as opposed to 200-ish...)

[ghirahimbo]

so... is this a Nintendo thing? a Japanese thing? what is it about swords that’s making designers slam the “RED WHITE GOLD DIAMONDS” button, I’m legitimately curious.

[starsharks]

can I just say that, with all my heart, I hate curved swords