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

https://youtu.be/PKvAdaX-4Cs

Using Longship Armoury 5160H Giant Silvia vs 2 thigh grade targets made of PPR cored newspapers rolls in diagonal cuts.

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

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