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How many styles can we name?
1. Kendo
2. Iaido
3. Kenjitsu
4. Dha (Bando Sword)
5. Fencing

How many more can we ad? :confused:
 
Well, we could start listing kenjutsu ryu-ha and just go crazy :)

Cthulhu
 
Originally posted by Renegade
How many styles can we name?
1. Kendo
2. Iaido
3. Kenjitsu
4. Dha (Bando Sword)
5. Fencing
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Krabi Krabong is known for its use of the sword; kumdo is Korean kendo. Iaido goes by other names (batto-jutsu, for example). If we are breaking it down this far we might consider various schools of Western fencing as well. Swords of a sort are used in the FMA (sometimes it's hard to tell if something is a short sword or a just a really long knife). The Tai Chi sword comes to mind, including the Kwandao, considered a sword in that context but more like a halberd.
 
Lets not forget the Medieval & Renaissance armed combat styles of Europe. There is not a name for them as a whole that I am aware of other than swordsmanship.





Despair Bear
 
Originally posted by Despairbear
Lets not forget the Medieval & Renaissance armed combat styles of Europe. There is not a name for them as a whole that I am aware of other than swordsmanship.





Despair Bear
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Did some quick poking around and found this:

Schools of the Sword & Terminology

Not knowing anything on Western swordsmanship, is this info any good?

Cthulhu
 
Hmmm.... Interesting site. Just had a chance to glance over it. I think I don't quite agree with some of the definitions but most are pretty good. It is a latter period than I usealy study so I cant say much on that side of it.





Despair Bear
 
In the TSD forum there is a post discussing the Korean sword in TSD and in particular the variation in what is considered an acceptable sword.
 
I would like to learn something about Western swordfighting some day--certainly fencing influenced escrima quite heavily.
 
What we have is an reconstruction of a lost art.
I have trained with knives and machete in my Escrima training,but all my swordtraining has been with western swords.
 
"We think of fencing as chess speeded up."
-J.P. Fournier, stage fencing instructor at Mount Royal College (Canada)
 
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