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Girls With Swords!, For Erin
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When two women are really mad at each other
Naraku
Draconarius
Actually, the dagger, known as a main gouche (left hand) or a parrying dagger was commonly used with the rapier. It was used to defend with the left hand while attacking with the sword in the right hand. In real sword fighting, something in the left hand is usually used for defense, whether a shield, a dagger, an armored glove or, if nothing else, a cloak wrapped around the arm. The idea of two combatants slapping their swords together comes from the movies that used sport fencing as a role model. In real life, that's a good way to break your sword.
Maybe this sword is named Excalibur ?
Mikerytel
Senator
The force is strong with these two.
captivecuties
Senator
Ha!Swinging Collection
yes but it must be plumper than the girlSo that’s how to fool the DA censors? Include a watermelon?
captivecuties
Senator
No Taarna, yet, I notice.Even thong she is a cartoon, she dose get put to the rack and whipped yet still has time to be a bad ass!
Rias
Neko Girl
no ex-cat-li-bur
willowfall
Senator
And the monthly update:
The girl for submissive men. But honestly I never thought she was pretty or hot:
If Medusa won and the guy has been turned to stone I really don't think that sword is going to get his head off, either one:
Well unless she is left handed she's holding the sword wrong .... like you guys would even notice:
Well at least all the pieces belong together period wise. And interestingly a lot of later period two handed sword fighters wore a minimal amount of armor (not quite as minimal as her's) because two handers require a lot of mobility not bashing. As a side note 'wavy' bladed swords are a little disconcerting to use until you get used to them:
Really really BAD form and technique and I'm not sure she's cute enough to get away with it:
kisses
willowfall
The girl for submissive men. But honestly I never thought she was pretty or hot:
If Medusa won and the guy has been turned to stone I really don't think that sword is going to get his head off, either one:
Well unless she is left handed she's holding the sword wrong .... like you guys would even notice:
Well at least all the pieces belong together period wise. And interestingly a lot of later period two handed sword fighters wore a minimal amount of armor (not quite as minimal as her's) because two handers require a lot of mobility not bashing. As a side note 'wavy' bladed swords are a little disconcerting to use until you get used to them:
Really really BAD form and technique and I'm not sure she's cute enough to get away with it:
kisses
willowfall
Kiduttaja
Consul
100% correct. What is "rare" is only the picture of two women dressed like in the XIX century fighting with two blades.
Regarding the "slapping" of blades in movies... for sure a fencing guard Kill Bill-style is wrong as the sharp side of the blade would be destroyed by the first "shomen" slash of the opponent. When fighitng with only one single edge blade the wrist should be rotated to receive the blows on the back of the blade which due to the differentiated hardening of the blade of a katana is more shock resistant... also the position of hands...
willowfall
Senator
In two handed sword fighting your dominant hand (usually the right) steers (is the back hand) while the weak hand powers the sword.
I don't know about katana fighting but the objective in western martial arts is not to receive the blow at all but to redirect it (or better yet not be where it lands) so it matters less where you "receive" the blow. Example in basket hilt backsword fighting there are very few techniques (and only used in an emergency) for turning the blade to "receive" the blow on the back side. Same thing with a naval cutlass or cavalry saber.
As too rapier I have fought with a dagger (only called main gauche in English and French other languages used their own term for it), a buckler (of varying sizes), a shield, a cloak and a lantern. And yes all those techniques show up in some original manual.
The primary problem with theatrical fighting (and we have this all the time with 'actors' who are trying to learn real techniques) is the measure (distance between the fighters), timing and movements are all wrong for real combat or dueling. Big flashy moves look great on the screen. Having swords bang against each other is very dramatic (which is why in productions you target the opponents weapon not the opponent), but both will get you killed in RL (although there are preliminary moves where you actually target the opponents weapon so that the follow up move, the actual attack, lands).
kisses
willowfall
Freya is one of the two wives of Odin in Norse mythology and belongs to the Aesir. She is the patron goddess of marriage, life and motherhood, queen of heaven and high goddess of the Aesir. She is the keeper of the hearth and the household.
That makes her sound frightfully respectable - she wasn't too goddessy when it came to getting the Brisingamen from those dwarves - spent a night with each of the four of them! She thought it was worth it to get a necklace that would make her irresistible (though actually she seemed pretty hard for Odin to keep his hands off anyway, and most of the Aesir were lusting for her)
Kiduttaja
Consul
here a girl using a katana:
in case of a sudden attack to the head in "shomenuchi" she is extracting the sword, turning the wrist to get the blow on the side of the blade leaving the opponent blade sliding while advancing with an "irimi" step as shown and then with a "tenkan" rotation she can hit laterally the legs (sorry... no nice nude girls...)
willowfall
Senator
Japanese sword fighting is distinctly different than western sword fighting. And due to the culture was almost complete limited to those of the Samurai class. Having been at demonstrations it is much more akin to the dueling\salle school style of fighting in the west than actual battle combat. (And having been at those demonstration if those are ACTUAL fighting techniques I could kick all their asses.) So in just one difference in all western styles of fighting from what you see here is when you draw the sword from its scabbard you step BACK into guard instead of trying to parry and advance at the same time (usually in the west it is two motions is quick secession parry while in your guard and then advance out of your guard to attack).
Dueling is much more stylized with rules of combat as opposed to being on the battlefield.
In the west it was very rare periods when the sword was limited to upper classes. Obviously in our favorite period Rome reigned supreme when for about 400 years with her armies fielding a sword (nasty short brutal little thing ... I love it) as the primary weapon.
All that said you can see in both styles that a human is a human and a sword is a sword. So in all schools you are taught how to deal with a blow to each part of the body (and in cavalry fighting even a parry for a blow from behind on the pass) and similarities is stance and technique can be very interesting.
And honestly, except for the best of the best, even in competition today you'll see a move that isn't in any manual or school because someone just had an "Oh shit" moment when realized they were about to be hit and somehow managed to get their sword in the way to block or parry the blow.
But I've always said about sword fighting, in real life, as long as you get to go home at the end of the day and the other guy doesn't, it's been a good day.
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willowfall