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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:23 pm
Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers.
They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess.
...Here kitty kitty kitty...
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:08 am
Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Wow! Lush... what did you get and how much did it set you back? hehe would you like a slice of kitty with that?
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:33 pm
DarklingGlory Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Wow! Lush... what did you get and how much did it set you back? hehe would you like a slice of kitty with that? I got a custom job at $9000 so not bad, around the price of a mid range forged blade, though it cuts like one. Feel sorry for my friend...almost, repeatedly asking what happened to her car, last time it scatches me, little b*****d.
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:34 pm
Jass DarklingGlory Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Wow! Lush... what did you get and how much did it set you back? hehe would you like a slice of kitty with that? I got a custom job at $9000 so not bad, around the price of a mid range forged blade, though it cuts like one. Feel sorry for my friend...almost, repeatedly asking what happened to her car, last time it scatches me, little b*****d. $9000? Wow, it must be quality. You should post a pic of it.
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Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:05 pm
The only sword i'd pay 9000 for is a ******** lightsaber. Then we'd see who's the real jedi Ashida Kim! FORCE CHOKE!
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:06 pm
Man, if I had a lightsabre, I'd more then likely end up with my arm cut off or something.
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:23 am
Ihabia Man, if I had a lightsabre, I'd more then likely end up with my arm cut off or something. I'd twirl it around all flashy making Darth Vader sounds before laying into the nearest group of O.A.P's
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:58 pm
Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Nice!! I get my blades from Bugei. They are a bit costly, but they back their quality 100%... and the fashion the blades in the same manner as the traditional swordsmith of Japan. Check them out.... http://www.bugei.com/I have a few other places I know of, but they wont sell to just anyone. YOu have to be a practicing student of Ken.
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Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 11:19 am
Thunder Foot Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Nice!! I get my blades from Bugei. They are a bit costly, but they back their quality 100%... and the fashion the blades in the same manner as the traditional swordsmith of Japan. Check them out.... http://www.bugei.com/I have a few other places I know of, but they wont sell to just anyone. YOu have to be a practicing student of Ken. Hey cool,I thought I was the only swordsmen the guild had then, you're in Aikido right Thunder? Those are some cool blades. Speaking of blades, ever handled anything from the Phillipines?
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:34 am
Jass Thunder Foot Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Nice!! I get my blades from Bugei. They are a bit costly, but they back their quality 100%... and the fashion the blades in the same manner as the traditional swordsmith of Japan. Check them out.... http://www.bugei.com/I have a few other places I know of, but they wont sell to just anyone. YOu have to be a practicing student of Ken. Hey cool,I thought I was the only swordsmen the guild had then, you're in Aikido right Thunder? Those are some cool blades. Speaking of blades, ever handled anything from the Phillipines? I tried Aikido for a very short time, and wasn't impressed. My sword training actually comes from Iaido. Unfortunately, my blades are a bit too heavy to be practicing with, aside from the fact that I use an Iaito unless we are cutting that particular day. I also believe Delmar practices Iaido as well. As far as blades from the phllipines, the only ones I really handle are balisongs. I would have to say it is my favorite concealable weapon... and I usually try to leave the house with atleast two on me. They work for me because I can apply the knife techniques to my Boxing, Thai, and JKD via Kali. The same empty-handed defenses can all be applied with the knife... so nothing changes persay, and thats whats really important to me... especially when I can upon techniques that recquire little to no thinking. So what style of swordplay do you do?
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:23 pm
Thunder Foot Jass Thunder Foot Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Nice!! I get my blades from Bugei. They are a bit costly, but they back their quality 100%... and the fashion the blades in the same manner as the traditional swordsmith of Japan. Check them out.... http://www.bugei.com/I have a few other places I know of, but they wont sell to just anyone. YOu have to be a practicing student of Ken. Hey cool,I thought I was the only swordsmen the guild had then, you're in Aikido right Thunder? Those are some cool blades. Speaking of blades, ever handled anything from the Phillipines? I tried Aikido for a very short time, and wasn't impressed. My sword training actually comes from Iaido. Unfortunately, my blades are a bit too heavy to be practicing with, aside from the fact that I use an Iaito unless we are cutting that particular day. I also believe Delmar practices Iaido as well. As far as blades from the phllipines, the only ones I really handle are balisongs. I would have to say it is my favorite concealable weapon... and I usually try to leave the house with atleast two on me. They work for me because I can apply the knife techniques to my Boxing, Thai, and JKD via Kali. The same empty-handed defenses can all be applied with the knife... so nothing changes persay, and thats whats really important to me... especially when I can upon techniques that recquire little to no thinking. So what style of swordplay do you do? Well, as you know my training started in Ju Jutsu, from there weapon play naturally progressed into Iaido, Kendo and Kenjutsu on the Japenese side. Kenjutsu is mainly live action drills, where Kendo did enable me to spar with shinai etc I found it far to full of posuers for my liking and quit shortly after acing a tournament up in Glasgow, Iaido itself I took soley to compliment Kenjutsu training (my coach thought they should never be apart from one another) Other then that, since the age of 5 I've fenced Liberi/Vaidi styles (proper Italian fencing) and continue to this day where I've picked up some Static (Olympic) fencing, something that definatly seams into my strikes effortlessly. If you could count the 6 months of Savate I learnt in the South of France, add that (like Kali, the cane's principle can be applied to sword/leg etc) And then of course, Lascada Eskrima and abit of Ikatan Kali (thats mostly to JKD principles apparently) currently I've been researching and sampling with the Russian armies R.O.S.S system and have suddenly gained a growing interest in the Maphilindo Silat method. Lately I'm pretty lacking in blade play bar Kali and find most of my time spent throwing down with some BJJ guys.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:55 am
I'm organizing a bunch mates to have a regular sparring sesh. So far its looking quite good, I've got myself, bahvanta (my girlfriend), a fellow tkder (big mutha) and his girlfriend, I've also got two mates who are doing kickboxing, another friend who used to do ninjitsu for weapon sparring (we've got lots of padded swords, staffs and various other weapons between us), a couple of other friends that just after a wrestle and another friend says his kungfu instructor is up for coming down for a match.
The only problems I'm facing is finding somewhere to do it (I'm not interested in involving money in any shape or form, so not paying for venue, no insurance, none of that tat, just mates getting together for a beating) and actually organizing people at the same time.
It should be quite a laugh if I can get it going, anybody got any advice on rules and so forth? I wanna try and cater for everybody so some is going to be full contact then others not
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:20 am
DarklingGlory I'm organizing a bunch mates to have a regular sparring sesh. So far its looking quite good, I've got myself, bahvanta (my girlfriend), a fellow tkder (big mutha) and his girlfriend, I've also got two mates who are doing kickboxing, another friend who used to do ninjitsu for weapon sparring (we've got lots of padded swords, staffs and various other weapons between us), a couple of other friends that just after a wrestle and another friend says his kungfu instructor is up for coming down for a match. The only problems I'm facing is finding somewhere to do it (I'm not interested in involving money in any shape or form, so not paying for venue, no insurance, none of that tat, just mates getting together for a beating) and actually organizing people at the same time. It should be quite a laugh if I can get it going, anybody got any advice on rules and so forth? I wanna try and cater for everybody so some is going to be full contact then others not Just make sure that the two people sparring agree on the rules before they start and that they've got the correct equipment (gum sheild and groin guard, etc). The best thing to do if you could if you haven't got a place to spar is to rent a local hall or space at a leisure centre (a badminton court for example) and each person pay £1 or what ever to cover the costs.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:52 am
Jass Thunder Foot Jass Thunder Foot Jass Recently recieved my order from www.liveblade.com and I am actually thoroughly impressed, EASILY the best swords I've worked with outside of various Honshou suppliers. They're perfectly balanced, full tanged, wrapped and fixed by a proffesional artisan and have a good weight for cutting/slashing, they tend to sort of, require alittle more force to get a good fletch out of them though but thats normal I guess. ...Here kitty kitty kitty... Nice!! I get my blades from Bugei. They are a bit costly, but they back their quality 100%... and the fashion the blades in the same manner as the traditional swordsmith of Japan. Check them out.... http://www.bugei.com/I have a few other places I know of, but they wont sell to just anyone. YOu have to be a practicing student of Ken. Hey cool,I thought I was the only swordsmen the guild had then, you're in Aikido right Thunder? Those are some cool blades. Speaking of blades, ever handled anything from the Phillipines? I tried Aikido for a very short time, and wasn't impressed. My sword training actually comes from Iaido. Unfortunately, my blades are a bit too heavy to be practicing with, aside from the fact that I use an Iaito unless we are cutting that particular day. I also believe Delmar practices Iaido as well. As far as blades from the phllipines, the only ones I really handle are balisongs. I would have to say it is my favorite concealable weapon... and I usually try to leave the house with atleast two on me. They work for me because I can apply the knife techniques to my Boxing, Thai, and JKD via Kali. The same empty-handed defenses can all be applied with the knife... so nothing changes persay, and thats whats really important to me... especially when I can upon techniques that recquire little to no thinking. So what style of swordplay do you do? Well, as you know my training started in Ju Jutsu, from there weapon play naturally progressed into Iaido, Kendo and Kenjutsu on the Japenese side. Kenjutsu is mainly live action drills, where Kendo did enable me to spar with shinai etc I found it far to full of posuers for my liking and quit shortly after acing a tournament up in Glasgow, Iaido itself I took soley to compliment Kenjutsu training (my coach thought they should never be apart from one another) Other then that, since the age of 5 I've fenced Liberi/Vaidi styles (proper Italian fencing) and continue to this day where I've picked up some Static (Olympic) fencing, something that definatly seams into my strikes effortlessly. If you could count the 6 months of Savate I learnt in the South of France, add that (like Kali, the cane's principle can be applied to sword/leg etc) And then of course, Lascada Eskrima and abit of Ikatan Kali (thats mostly to JKD principles apparently) currently I've been researching and sampling with the Russian armies R.O.S.S system and have suddenly gained a growing interest in the Maphilindo Silat method. Lately I'm pretty lacking in blade play bar Kali and find most of my time spent throwing down with some BJJ guys. Hehe, sounds like you're a JKD COncepts student at heart wink Silat is it very interesting. In our system of JKD, it kind of opeartes as the link between BJJ, knife fighting, and stand-to-ground grapplng. Very good stuff, and present grappling techniques that are outside the BJJ spectrum (for the most part). You would definitely benefit from the style.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:41 pm
Yeah, I thought I would benefit too from what little I've been exposed to is, originally I assumed it would be similar to Kali but from further study, yes, it does seem to work as a transitional art too, Personally I want to use it to compliment my original Ju Jutsu training.
I found alot of my own transitional movements come from applying footwork and natural body movement etc, as for grappling movements the in fighting does look interested, apart from the Bjj/JJJ I have abit of Roman Greco and Catchfighting experience (The Catchfighting was honestly just to supe up my guard work, some of the takedowns are plain suicidal against a half witted opponent)
JKC, There are a few good schools around, I drop in on the adult classes now and then just because they're devoid of JKD nut huggers, seriously, one more Bruce Lee was God comment and I'm breaking out the lube.
But then I've never seriously been OJKD or JKDC, just Jass with his tailor made arsenal.
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