Yep, I got that And read it.

I'd recommend adding gardening to your life

I want to know about the sword training.

HEMA or some form of asian MA?

What kind of sword?

yea, i learned batons in the military, from there i went krav magra, and for several years, swordsmanship, now i train with 2 double edge katanas

ill see if i can find em online to link

Is that the musashi style or something else?

I mean, I'm pretty sure there's no actual such thing as a double edged katana, just a katana like sword with two edges.

dm me the link

You're not proven a meme-underling yet.

yea, double edged arent traditional

I always wanted to pick up rapier and dagger. But katana and wakizashi are quite effective as well from I've seen.

"longer sword and shorter sword"

i prefer 2 longer swords

Yep. That's pretty much exactly how it works.

Oh, devil's threesome fan, huh?

also...these swords are longer than a traditional katana

Okay, that's cool. SCOTUS says it's alright.

the way i started sword training was simple...i had one of those cheap sets of 3, and i was tired of doing pushups after i got out of the navy.....

so everyday i would just swing 300 times in 3 ways 100 each with each hand

after a few months, i figured out simply by doing it, that in order to actually get it to cut, you have to angle the blade perfectly in the direction that you are swinging

then everyday i just improved it

Yeah, the cut angle is super important and often overlooked or completely misunderstood by outsiders and newbies.

It's the secret behind how the masters make cutting look so damn effortless.

now i can get 300/300 to cut, and increased the number of cuts / angles / swings that i can do, from 3 with each hand to more like 32 with each hand, because i can hold the sword more like a dagger, and cut multiple ways with it

from there i had to increase my ambidextrousness, so i bought like 24inch expandable metal batons, and learned how to twirl them

because if you fuck up and hit yourself with a metal baton, its going to hurt....a lot, incentivizing me to not fuck up

Also, it does less damage than doing the same thing with a sword.

took months to get past the batons...but after i could do 3 kinds of twirls for 20 minutes or so with 3 months of no fuck ups, i started working on dual wielding the cheap single edged traditional katanas

Cheap = wall hangers = SLOs, right?

SLO (for those playing at home) = sword-like objects

So, you're not taking any actual training, then?

got my foundation / stance down right away, a bit of time later, i started standardizing it

and now, ive pretty much mastered dual wielding, so i bought double edged katanas, and created standardized forms and routines for all 64 ways to cut someone (since the double edge opens up an insane number of possibilities)

as well as combative motions that utilize krav magra, and military grapples

and yea, im self taught

Do you have a practice dummy?

no =S would be a waste of money, i'd cut through it

i train with real swords

couldnt send the link for the swords i train with in chat, so i dm'ed

i only like these for training because they're heavy... next ill probably get 2 gladius, double edge, and shorter

Who needs swords if you can have guns