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Lancelot Chan
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 Posted: Mon 28 May, 2018 10:04 am Post subject: Longship Armoury Giant Silvia big cut |
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While my Longship Armoury LLC 5160H Giant Silvia is a 1 vs multiple opponents sword, designed to control the field by severing the limbs and weak spots, sometimes opponent would get so close that I would have to cut through the big target like the torso. So I tested the sword's ability in doing a closer range cut against big target by making a difficult target with PPR core bone, 5.5" diameter of wet newsapapers, added with plastic bag skin and non-woven bag as clothing.
https://youtu.be/TjY2YnQ1EMk
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Lancelot Chan
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Jean Thibodeau
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Both videos are impressive ..... :eek: :cool:
With extreme close up to the target, even closer than in your first demonstration, of the two above Topic threads, you might not have enough room for a powered stroke so you might have to transform the cut into a very close draw or push cut using as much of the total blade length as possible: A very very slicing cut maybe ?
In your example you are using the mid blade to initiate the cut closer to the hilt than you might from a longer distance where you might be using " the sweet spot " point of percussion closer to the last third of the blade, or even something closer to a point/tip cut.
Impressive cut with a scary impressive blade that seems to have a slight recurve near the hilt before the rest of the curved blade.
A different style of blade by Arms and Armour which I have with a 46" long blade might have similar power: The A&A 15th century two handed sword ? ( A curved blade may have a slight cutting advantage but the A&A sword weighs 6 pounds ).
http://arms-n-armor.com/sword156.html
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Lancelot Chan
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Yes, if even closer then it has to become a big slice with lots of pull, both for the cut and for a tactical withdraw to keep the opponent out. I was trying out if the mid blade can cut or not since switching to a draw will require a different mindset. In fact in the second video you can see that my first cut on the first target was only slicing through. LOL so that's it!
That A&A sword is certainly big! If one can get it to speed, I'm sure it's very powerful! I would like to have a chance to test one day. :D
| Jean Thibodeau wrote: | Both videos are impressive ..... :eek: :cool:
With extreme close up to the target, even closer than in your first demonstration, of the two above Topic threads, you might not have enough room for a powered stroke so you might have to transform the cut into a very close draw or push cut using as much of the total blade length as possible: A very very slicing cut maybe ?
In your example you are using the mid blade to initiate the cut closer to the hilt than you might from a longer distance where you might be using " the sweet spot " point of percussion closer to the last third of the blade, or even something closer to a point/tip cut.
Impressive cut with a scary impressive blade that seems to have a slight recurve near the hilt before the rest of the curved blade.
A different style of blade by Arms and Armour which I have with a 46" long blade might have similar power: The A&A 15th century two handed sword ? ( A curved blade may have a slight cutting advantage but the A&A sword weighs 6 pounds ).
http://arms-n-armor.com/sword156.html |
Ancient Combat Association —http://www.acahk.org
Realistic Sparring Weapons — http://www.rsw.com.hk
Nightstalkers — http://www.nightstalkers.com.hk
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