Please tell me this didn't happen.

[gendzwil]

[bruce]Bamboo doesn't cut back[/bruce]

Seriously, the Haedong Gumdo guys are athletic and have some skill at what they do, but it isn't related to real swordwork any more than TKD board-breaking demonstrations are to real fighting.

[Kaoru]

Oh man, Charlie! I wanted to see that too!! Waaaaaa!!! Such great entertainment!

Scary too though... Laast time I saw something like that, I had to cover my face when the guy tossed his sharp sword in the air really high.

[Charlie Kondek]

The kumdo guys have beaten them to it, except they are damn good.

http://traumstadt.org/bamboocutting.wmv

Yes, that's interesting. Now picture it done very badly and thrown up on ESPN.

[trolling]Hey, those kumdo guys really make all the shinkendo and bugei.com guys look bad. Not even Big Tony can pull off some of those cuts.[/trolling]

[gendzwil]

Big Tony don't jump.

[Chidokan]

you were very hard on the gumdo guys Neil, I had one visit from korea last year,4th dan I seem to remember.... The style looks like a typical Korean martial art, (obviously 100000's of years old like every other korean art...) so obviously not borrowing heavily from Chinese arts or using a japanese sword and pretending its a korean design... which is a bit of a weird combination. The exercise routines I thought he was doing turned out to be grading to first dan! And it included the 'putting out the candle flame with a bokken' trick for brown belt. My thoughts on that I will keep to myself. As I said, totally unfair on them.

[Charlie Kondek]

And it included the 'putting out the candle flame with a bokken' trick for brown belt.

Hm? Swing it close enough to flame to snuff it out?

[Ren Blade]

When they include tameshigiri in these musical karate tournaments, the Kenshins will likely each bring their trusty Practical Katana to cut with.

[ScottUK]

Hey, I cut with a PK and a PK+

They ain't bad, apart from they're too short for my orangutan arms...

[galo]

Hey, I cut with a PK and a PK+

They ain't bad, apart from they're too short for my orangutan arms...

I also use a PPK to cut... I don't think they're that bad. =/

I'd worry if the competition was full of stainless steel wallhangers, which is most surely to happen, instead of being full of PK's... that would be an improvement!

[Icewind]

I have a stainless steel sakabatou.
>.>;
<.<;

[leoboiko]

I especially enjoy the videogame-like way the second kumdo guy spins the sword before sheating it.

[Brian Owens]

I also use a PPK to cut...

Gee, I use a PPK to shoot. Didn't know I could cut with it.
Those guys at Walther are geniuses.

I have a stainless steel sakabatou.

Practice these lines: "That got me. That got me good."
[Said while falling to the ground with a piece of fractured stainless-steel katana buried in your abdomen.]

[Lane Haygood]

Practice these lines: "That got me. That got me good."
[Said while falling to the ground with a piece of fractured stainless-steel katana buried in your abdomen.]

We may need to have... major surgery... right here on E-budo!

[Brian Owens]

We may need to have... major surgery... right here on E-budo!

I sure enjoyed that clip. Someday I want to get a good high-resolution copy of it.

I'll attach his e-mail response to me from a few months earlier regarding my suggestion that he get some instruction in sword handling.

[Icewind]

I sure enjoyed that clip. Someday I want to get a good high-resolution copy of it.

I'll attach his e-mail response to me from a few months earlier regarding my suggestion that he get some instruction in sword handling.

You won't be getting a clip of me and my sakabatou...

However, I do have a JWang carbon steel "Garbage can whacker" katana...