• Nakoichi [they/them]M
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              3 years ago

              Friend and I broke one of my solid oak training swords sparring so hard.

              For accurate weight distribution use wood, for actual contact sparring use polypropylene

              • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                For accurate weight distribution use wood, for actual contact sparring use polypropylene

                at a club, it's polypropylene
                wood would be a nightmare for insurance

                for everything but sparring we use actual swords

    • HarryLime [any]
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      3 years ago

      I don't practice HEMA, but I watch HEMA videos and matches and guys like Matt Easton talk about swords. I guess that's incredibly lame.

    • Soap_Owl [any]
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      3 years ago

      There isn't a hema gym in my area and it makes me just a little bit sad

    • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      HEMA seems so cool. I haven't gotten into it yet, for a number of reasons, but I hope to at some point in my life.

      I saw a youtube video once about a woman, I think she was a little over 50, overweight, completely out of shape. And then she decided to do buhurt. And was pretty successful at it for a few years until she felt she had aged out. It was really cool.