found this site and wondered if anyone has tried dto use these or similar weapons for actual MA practice? Some look alright, but I wonder if they wourld work for our "style".
Those are toys. Designed by gamers for gamers...not for serious martial artists. We do make some use of padded weapons, but they are weighted and balanced to attempt to resemble real weapons. Most of those are made up, fantasy designs anyway.
You are much better served using steel blunts and wooden wasters.
"Why is there a picture of a man with a sword in his head on your desk?" -friends inquiry
Every LARP "weapon" I've ever come across--professionally made like these, or homemade--tends to be VERY light (as light as a couple ounces) and EXTREMELY whippy. These characters make them exactly unsuited to what we do.
One of my friends and his brother are big into a LARP group. Once, my friend remarked about how one "sword" he was using was so light, he actually forgot he was holding it during one large "battle." (apparantly this wasn't a good thing for him because he needed his hands free to cast some spell or other )
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