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Sorry to extend this thread futher, but I'm really struggling with which sort of waster to look at purchasing! I want to purchase an arming sword waster, and am split between Raven and NSA at the moment. Any help on making the plunge? Several people seem to have been rather pleased with both of thes...

Jako: I'm very interested in what you have to say, as I'm certainly open to the idea that exchanging light armor (padding really) for sparring with blunts or aluminum wasters or something along those lines may be a better trade off than ARMA's current padded sparring methods [I'm cautious in going e...

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It seems to me that which weapons you choose to do depends entirely on what your focus is. First of all, I think ringen should be done early on, since many weapon techniques may often shift to grappling. Beyond that... ringen and rondel / dagger certainly do have more use in real world situations. B...

Double checked some details. Words for sword in Latin include Ensis, Gladius, Chalybs, Ferrum, and Spatha, from the dictionary I could find, though Ferrum and Chalybs probably only mean sword in the same sense that "iron" and "steel" can be used in our language to signify sword, ...

Just an aside: Matt, I just saw that you're listed as living in OKC. I live just south of you in Moore. Do you have a group of people that you practice with? As of yet I haven't found anyone to train with who is also interested in ARMA. On the topic, though... While I'm similarly suspicious of most ...