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Felix Wang
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 Posted: Tue 07 Nov, 2017 1:05 pm Post subject: Machete dueling |
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It has been a while since I visited. I saw this video, and thought it might be amusing:
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/545057/papa-machete/
This would likely be a relatively recent invention (17th -18th century?) Machetes aren't swords, of course, and the fighters are unarmoured, but it certainly looks interesting.
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Dan Howard
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Looks scary as all hell. One of my instructors said "the winner of a knife fight is the one who makes it to hospital."
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen and Sword Books
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Johannes Zenker
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Ah yes, I've seen this video a few months ago. Quite interesting, if a little bit sensationalist and staged. I really liked the part where the westerner goes toe to toe with Papa, looked like the guy had learned some Messer.
Plus, as a linguist I *really* loved the french-english mix pidgin.
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This is a standard topic