throwing knife btw

yooo

why is it shaped like that

Even I don’t know lol

did all their throwing knives look like that

because i could see some dude being creative with them

but i dont get why all would be shaped like that

I think mainly in the Congo

What is with the weird knives, they look useless?

I mean hey, if they commonly used them
it must have worked to some degree

Eh, maybe but a straight edge is easier to use and make

post more swords n knives u fags

what type of sword is that

whats the name boie

That is a short and an arming sword from left to right

One is one handed and the other is a hand and a half

are those yours

My father’s actually

thats neat

ever cut anything with them?

Yeah, not fit for sparring tho

And not me, but my father might have

you do sword sparring?

Yeah HEMA

yeeaa

whats it like

Well HEMA is full contact so we can grapple with the opponent, we use metal swords but they are not sharp, and we read from texts created during the renaissance as a base for it

interesting

you still wear body protection tho right

Oh yeah, not so much full plate armor as much as padded clothes, they are thick enough to avoid injury tho

what type of swords do you use

I do longword mostly, and that is the main thing taught in class, but we have used Spears, rapiers, and dusaq(a cutlass like blade), tho only occasionally

sounds very fun

Yeah, you can google them, their organization is pretty big

ill google them rn

If their acronym doesn’t work try googling, “historical European Martial Arts”

lol theres even people doing it in turkey

thats crazy