My Opinion of Hanwei (Swords and Polearms) 

That's pretty much exactly what I thought.

Skallagrim hey I got a question that bothers me for a long time the question is : in the point of history when guns started to pop up . how soldiers that fought in close combat like swordmans or cavalry fought against long range soldiers like musketeers and so ... because i heard that they did fight . thanks u so much for your attention and by the way I really like your videos they thought me a lot

shallev ashush you take like 40-60 seconds to reload the IMPRECISE musket. The melee units could have walked towards the musketmen with a fast pace and engaged them with very very few losses.

thank u guys this question really interested me. i really appreciate that

thank u guys this question really interested me. i really appreciate that

I see people tend to lose their heads when you come up with the backsword

You're damn right *AUUUUU* *AUUUU* STOP DAT

Seriously dude? Seriously? Penis jokes?

Loren Dragonborn you beat me to that point

Robert Marshall my apologies, the video in the link is quite funny, and I get the joke noe

*now

Jim Fortune that's a big con you know

Yes, how can you end him rightly then?

Leonlx :P

Leonlx throw the sword pommel first

Hold my beer.

Harbinger how do they get everywhere?

Harbinger maybe use toe force to make them straight

Not like pommels. They're soft and smooth

Wait a second...

r/PrequelMemes bleeding over to RU-vid aswell I see!

Thanks thats good to know, im German and live near the Rhein (Rhine) so its especially interesting for me.

ElDudeerino1 very true

0/10 no pommel jokes

why

Oh god, why?

Ben Caxton this comment right here made my day hahahahaha 😂

can u please explain

*loses

So low.

XD

that's gei

More than your dignity.

Did you start that collection?

Lord JS can u tell me the price of those?

I don't remember. All of them were bought before 2012.

You are referring to contemporary Wu Shu. The weapons are that flimsy for 2 reasons. 1; so that they cannot really be used as a weapon. 2; to increase the speed they are used by the performers so as to seem more impressive. However, as someone that has practiced sword... fighting(including Chinese style fencing) for decades, it is less impressive. Once you understand how blades are really to be used effectively, it just seems like playing with kids toys. The communist Chinese government synthesized Wu Shu from many forms of Chinese Kung Fu during the 60's when they realized they couldn't eliminate it entirely. They wanted some of the character of Kung Fu(traditional WuShu), along with making it more acrobatic and dynamic looking for both exercise and performance value while taking much of the martial value out of Kung Fu that had already been watered down over the previous few centuries(mostly, some arts became more combat oriented briefly in the late Republic period due to some fighters and intellectuals wanting to reverse their decline, even mixing with western boxing,Muay Thai...but it didn't last long due to Japan invading). China has a long history(millenia) of suppressing individual martial arts because of their fear of a trained peasantry rebelling/causing problems for the various empires(often they were correct). Even the early Republican officials tried to suppress Kung Fu, until they realized they could gain more support from military officers(many of whom were Kung Fu masters or teachers) and intellectuals(again many practitioners of Kung Fu-China is one of few countries in history that often had fairly broad support from the intellectual classes for fighting arts/skills). Eventually Chiang Kai Shek supported having national fighting tournaments and opening national schools for Kung Fu to broaden exposure to the arts and try to develop a somewhat standardized curriculum. It is this model that the communists used/perverted to create contemporary WuShu. It is only later, in the 70's after a Kung Fu/martial arts explosion took place(largely bypassing martial arts outside Asia, by the way), that China realized they were wasting a huge natural resource and then started recruiting old Kung Fu masters(and sometimes just mid level students,to be honest), to start teaching traditional WuShu/Kung Fu again instead of persecuting them(my instructor's teacher was actually executed by the Maoists). Now China has a thriving tourist industry for their "shaolin temple" and other Kung Fu schools(some people just want to see them, but others pay to live and train there, sometimes for years).

So you never were early?

maistromann pfff I threw my pommel faster than that

maistromann *_END_* *_HIM_* *_RIGHTLY_*

Yea, let's just throw in all the memes at once.

*click click click click click click click*

That Pudao does not seem to be designed as a Wushu weapon. And the European swords most certainly aren't. :)

So what exactly constitutes native Australian weapons? Genuinely curious. Spears (obv) Throwing sticks (aka boomerang) What else?

Australian designs ect

What constitutes a native australian weapon? That it comes from australia...? or are you asking what *unique* weapons originated from australia? if so, there are names like Woomera, karli and others a mere google away

He might have also been talking about Australian manufacturers, designers, or weapons of a more recent vintage. I was trying to find out.

+Jozef Doyle apparently not just a google away. Type 'karli' in and all you get are pictures of teenage girls

KLousyfolds Longquan is the name of the Chinese town that produces blades, not a specific brand or maker.