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Scott M. Rodell Unboxes a New Dadao Sparring Sword from Santosh Weapons After his Weekly Webinar. --- https://www.facebook.com/santosh_weap... 

  LIMITED OFFER - 50% OFF - The Complete Practical Dadao Form The Practical Dadao System was developed for Chinese Soldiers during the Early Republic and designed to meet a bayonet head on. At that time, military rifles only carried 5 rounds and were slow to reload. Every army of the period drilled bayonet fighting extensively. The Chinese answered by drawing on their long tradition of two-handed saber fighting. In this course, you will learn the entire Practical Dadao Form (實用大刀術), created by Jin Enzhong, to train troops. Every Form lesson is followed by an in-depth presentation of the Martial Applications of the movements facing a bayonet. Basic Cuts and Solo Drills are also covered. Jin published his manual in 1933. SIGN UP HERE - USE CODE Dadao50 for 50% off the course:  

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Scabbard is stitched, started to make Punches and experimenting with tooling, adding texture to the back ground and raising the for ground. @peterjohnssonswordsmith @jonas_blade #turningtheworldtodust #swordclass #dragonsbreathforge https://www.instagram.com/p/B8hsSCLlWWN/?igshid=k3z2h1wjqykp

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John is heat treating his sword from our sword class @columbusideafoundry #swordclass #blacksmith #bladesmith #handcrafted #heattreat #swords #macabeemetals

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Intercepting: Jie and Ge Cuts- Chinese Swordsmanship Webinar Excerpt

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Scott M. Rodell presents the history and how-to of Chinese Fast Sword Drawing  (出手法) and the techniques for re-scabbarding Jian. Get Started in Full Contact Swordplay, Online, and In-Person- 

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I put together 8 Short Sword Forms for the Academy of Chinese Swordsmanship (中華刀劍武藝學院). I drew them from the Yangjia Michuan Taiji Sword form, compacting some of the movements so they are practiced as they are applied in Free Swordplay.Sunday we worked on the 4th in the Series which starts squatting down then spring up to deliver the thrust seen here-White Ape Emerges from the Cave For more about the Academy see: https://www.chineseswordacademy.com/

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Students Training the Zha Ci Partner Drill

Leeds Chinese Swordsmanship Seminar, May 2022

Nice “skipping stone” movement where the deflection answers seamlessly with a Zha to the duifang’s sword arm, then continues in with a Ci to the sword arm shoulder as the arms is withdrawn.

One detail to note here is that some of the thrust are low and not to the shoulder as they should be. This error often occurs as the sword arms tires from a day of training. If the Ci goes too low, it should be deflected with a circular stirring deflection.

Thanks to Paul Andrew of the Xing Yi Academy for organizing our Leeds Seminars.

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Got the falchion polished out to 220 on the belt, I marked out the thickness and width to make sure it is with in historical norms. Heal shot just to get an idea of the geometry I feel is correct for these.#dragonsbreathforge #turningtheworldtodust #falchion #swordclass (at Dragon's Breath Forge) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD8SbbFWdn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l3rwz4hvojv1