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Can anyone compare a cold steel hand and a half sharp to a windlass long sword sharp?

I used to live in Anchorage. Sorry I missed you.

And wait 'till you grapple with it! Please expand on this, or even start a new thread in the unarmed section about this. I like this stance for fencing but haven't found it particularly comfortable to grapple from, partially because I'm more familiar with a rather square stance when grappling. I'd ...

You know in my last post about the security clearance I may have mislead some of you. John does kind of work these things in batches. He can’t process all of them since they come in significantly faster than he can review them. So John simply picks the ones that have the best answers to the question...

I sent in my application a while ago and I haven't heard anything back, does that mean that I got denied or should I try again, I cant put tell yall enough how much I wish to be a part of your association. so what can I do to help the process? thanks Applying to ARMA is much like applying for a sec...

John recently pointed out to me that it is not a good idea to stick your left elbow out when you do this guard BTW. I have been doing that without noticing. In answering this question it should be mentioned that even though I have my favorites, its best to move around and use all the variations of V...

I think if ARMA was a democracy perhaps its numbers would have grown faster but the speed that ARMA has progressed towards its goals is a direct result of quality control and leadership.

Sorry to come on to this late. If any of you on the forum are bothered by the kinds of accusations made by those who left ARMA and want to ask questions from someone who knows a lot about what happened please feel free to contact me on this forum by sending me a private message. I will take some tim...

Bah, that’s too much work. That project will turn into a monster let alone the long term sturdiness of the thing will go down.

I hope we can find a simpler solution.

Yeah, I'm out to mod this thing too. You know if you look at the cold steel demo videos you can see why they make their swords like they do. They swing everything, and I mean everything like a base ball bat when they test their products. I kid you not, the guy demoing all of the swords keeps his leg...

Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6ldl_AodI

OK, good question. I forgot I was going to say something about that too. The cross is a separate piece that came already slid into place. There is a large rubber stopper that you have to slide on to hold it in place. So the cross is slid along the blade till it rests against the wider handle and is ...

Jason Taylor wrote:PS Edit: Plus, you can run over it with a truck. Don't know how that helps, but it's darn cool.

Yeah, that’s a good point. Even if your not into the sword, I at least recommend watching the ridiculously funny cold steel video.

My BudK order came in yesterday. I received two of these waisters for 70$ (that includes tax and shipping.) I have not really had time to try them out yet but I swung one around for a while and tested the strength of them. Here is a first glance. Stuff I don’t like: Very unbalanced, its very blade h...

Sorry, but I don't know.

Work could take me there once or twice, any time this year.