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Title: Reclaiming the Blade
Site: Martial Arts Planet  Martial Arts Planet - site profile
Forum: Western Martial Arts  Western Martial Arts - forum profile
Total authors: 8 authors
Total thread posts: 21 post
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Started 2 months ago (2008-10-02 17:52:00)  by Louie
Trailer to forthcoming documentary Reclaiming the Blade. Featuring Viggo Mortensen, Karl Urban, Bob Anderson, and many more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxcBWl8-d0E Louie
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Started 2 months ago (2008-10-02 20:21:00)  by piratebrido
You sure this isn't a forgotten Lord of the Rings extra?
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Started 2 months ago (2008-10-03 00:00:00)  by Ular Sawa
It looks interesting. I'll be looking forward to it. Thanks for the post Louie. Cheers!
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Started 2 months ago (2008-10-03 01:14:00)  by slipthejab
Pretty much everyone I've ever met in film who'd had theatrical sword fighting experience and skills was from the Bob Anderson school. Interesting stuff.
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Started 2 months ago (2008-10-03 04:48:00)  by max Chouinard
I'll judge it when I'll see the documentary, but from all the teasers and trailers I saw, it kind of looks like a tribute to Hollywood swordmanship. This trailer is actually the one with the most HEMA sequences I saw to date... I suppose this is to give some interest to the crowd in general.
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Started 2 months ago (2008-10-03 07:50:00)  by Polar Bear
Not holding out much hope. Lots of HEMA people playing with sticks as swords. As the Bear says if it ain't steel it ain't real. The Bear.
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Started 1 month, 4 weeks ago (2008-10-03 10:26:00)  by RAbid Hamster
as a WMA type I have no issue with film swordwork ... as long as every one remembers its for entertainment. Likewise using sticks to represent steel is for entertainment. its not real and is not a good representation of moving metal in three dimentions. Using blunt steel to represent steel is as real as we can get ... using anything else and pretending its WMA is simply people playing ...
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Started 1 month, 4 weeks ago (2008-10-03 12:14:00)  by lklawson
Quote: Originally Posted by Polar Bear Not holding out much hope. Lots of HEMA people playing with sticks as swords. As the Bear says if it ain't steel it ain't real. Historically, wooden wasters were frequently used for practice and sparring. And not just for Sabre/Singlestick either. There are documented ...
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Started 1 month, 4 weeks ago (2008-10-03 12:52:00)  by lklawson
Quote: Originally Posted by RAbid Hamster Likewise using sticks to represent steel is for entertainment. its not real and is not a good representation of moving metal in three dimentions. Using blunt steel to represent steel is as real as we can get ... using anything else and pretending its WMA is simply people playing themselves....
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Started 1 month, 4 weeks ago (2008-10-03 13:36:00)  by Polar Bear
Quote: Originally Posted by lklawson Again, wooden wasters are historically accurate. Live Steel Magazine (a short lived WMA focused magazine published through Lulu) had a decent two-part article on the topic. Well documented. Peace favor your sword, Kirk Accurate but rubbish and used out of necessity...
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lklawson
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user's latest post:
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Published (2008-10-03 16:03:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by RAbid Hamster but we do have very definite views on wma. I would expect nothing else. Peace favor your sword, Kirk
Polar Bear
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user's latest post:
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Published (2008-10-03 15:37:00)
Quote: Originally Posted by lklawson However, statements rejecting the utility and historical preceedent of wasters is both inaccurate and boarders on dishonest imo and it gives just as much ammunition to the banners by presenting them with opportunities to describe HEMA enthusiasts as hypocrits and intellectually dishonest. And, let's be honest here, HEMA practicioners are ALREADY marginalized and painted as D&amp;D wannabes. For...
RAbid Hamster
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user's latest post:
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Published (2008-10-03 15:48:00)
Quote: BTW, I hope I'm not coming across as too antagonistic here. I'm honestly not trying to be a wang, but, instead, to engage in healthy, polite, debate. Dont worry, me n bear are belligerent enough for all of us! .. .. but we do have very definite views on wma.
Louie
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Published (2008-10-03 17:41:00)
A wee bit on the historic use of wood - before, instead of, or alongside steel.... John Stow’s 1598, Survey of London, recounted the following: “Ye may have read in mine annals how that in the year 1222 the citizens kept games of defence, and wrestlings, near unto the hospital of St. Giles in the field, where they challenged and had the mastery of the men in the suburbs and other commoners…The youths of this city also have used on holy...
piratebrido
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user's latest post:
Reclaiming the Blade
Published (2008-10-02 20:21:00)
You sure this isn't a forgotten Lord of the Rings extra?
Ular Sawa
1
user's latest post:
Reclaiming the Blade
Published (2008-10-03 00:00:00)
It looks interesting. I'll be looking forward to it. Thanks for the post Louie. Cheers!
slipthejab
1
user's latest post:
Reclaiming the Blade
Published (2008-10-03 01:14:00)
Pretty much everyone I've ever met in film who'd had theatrical sword fighting experience and skills was from the Bob Anderson school. Interesting stuff.
max Chouinard
1
user's latest post:
Reclaiming the Blade
Published (2008-10-03 04:48:00)
I'll judge it when I'll see the documentary, but from all the teasers and trailers I saw, it kind of looks like a tribute to Hollywood swordmanship. This trailer is actually the one with the most HEMA sequences I saw to date... I suppose this is to give some interest to the crowd in general.