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Off Topic => Spam => Topic started by: mulas on October 23, 2012, 01:48:55 am

Title: Katana Powa!
Post by: mulas on October 23, 2012, 01:48:55 am
Witness the powa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsfGWkO7SM#movie_player

Highlight at 1:39.

No broadsword can have this kind of cutting power.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Winterly on October 23, 2012, 02:03:05 am
and let the downvotes and insults begin!
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: mulas on October 23, 2012, 02:10:31 am
Unless you can find me a video of a broadsword that can do what this katana can. I rest my case.

Most broadsword are much longer and heavier and still can't cut like this katana. Disgrace!
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: SixThumbs on October 23, 2012, 02:12:06 am
Well, he can cut the wood for my fires this winter.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: TheAppleSauceMan on October 23, 2012, 02:24:32 am
nerf katana, only should be able to cut wood in game, obviously OP
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: rustyspoon on October 23, 2012, 02:27:57 am
Videos like this are always dumb. "Hey guys, watch me swing at inanimate objects with all my might while using a sword made of high-quality steel and forged with modern techniques."

Congratulations! You've figured out that a sword cuts things. Too bad you figured it out a few thousand years after everyone else...
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Kelugarn on October 23, 2012, 02:30:06 am
Buff Cudgel 2012
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Kafein on October 23, 2012, 02:34:58 am
Quote from: rustyspoon on October 23, 2012, 02:27:57 am
Videos like this are always dumb. "Hey guys, watch me swing at inanimate objects with all my might while using a sword made of high-quality steel and forged with modern techniques."

Congratulations! You've figured out that a sword cuts things. Too bad you figured it out a few thousand years after everyone else...

Furthermore, they swing it like retards. The point of a curved blade is to cut by gliding the blade along a surface, not hammer it in. That's actually closer to a straigth sword "fighting style" than anything else.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: owens on October 23, 2012, 02:44:09 am
Katana could never penetrate armour ever.


A broad sword would offer a longer lasting blade that could be repaired and wouldnt shatter in combat and allows for a shield.

Ill go even further and say that Japan is very lucky it never had to face the armies of Europe. Samurai only ever faught samurai and peasents. The Katana itself was designed to cut down un armoured oponents. Steal from much of asia at this time was so poor that the sword breaker was a common weapon.

The labour intensive way katana were made left the majority of the pupolous with spears, axes and modified farming equipement. They are very lucky that the mongol ships were destroyed by storms twice!. Otherwise It is almost certain that japan would have become just another mongol territory.


Also cold steel will tell you the longsword is better than the katana.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: mulas on October 23, 2012, 02:46:49 am
Point is...the katana design is better for cutting, the curved blade, the long hilt for more leverage and power. It's lighter and faster. You can achieve the same result with less effort. Broad sword you have to use too much brute force and get tired quickly. When you're gassed out, you're as good as dead. Bottom line is superior design.

But then again, this is a game forum, most if not all of you ever wield a real sword (not replica) and test anything with it. It makes more sense to pose the question in a sword forum then argue with pretentious know it all fools.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Haboe on October 23, 2012, 02:58:08 am
Katana powah:


EDIT: for those who think FU OP KATANA, i have 10 PS on my bride char.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Rebelyell on October 23, 2012, 03:00:54 am
Quote from: mulas on October 23, 2012, 02:46:49 am
Point is...the katana design is better for cutting, the curved blade, the long hilt for more leverage and power. It's lighter and faster. You can achieve the same result with less effort. Broad sword you have to use too much brute force and get tired quickly. When you're gassed out, you're as good as dead. Bottom line is superior design.

But then again, this is a game forum, most if not all of you ever wield a real sword (not replica) and test anything with it. It makes more sense to pose the question in a sword forum then argue with pretentious know it all fools.
its another katana thread, and you are retardet enough to post wideo with fat ass that have no idea how to cut with that weapon.

congratz
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Bobthehero on October 23, 2012, 03:19:12 am
Quote from: mulas on October 23, 2012, 02:46:49 am
It's lighter and faster. You can achieve the same result with less effort. Broad sword you have to use too much brute force and get tired quickly. When you're gassed out, you're as good as dead. Bottom line is superior design.

But then again, this is a game forum, most if not all of you ever wield a real sword (not replica) and test anything with it. It makes more sense to pose the question in a sword forum then argue with pretentious know it all fools.

ಠ_ಠ
I have an actual arming sword, but its a 1 hander, very light stuff, I know a guy who has a longsword that weight less than a pound.

Edit: managed to remain polite, something's broken in me
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Player_01 on October 23, 2012, 03:36:44 am
[on topic] Blah stuff blah. [/on topic]

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Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Rebelyell on October 23, 2012, 03:58:54 am
Title: For all that katanna QQ boys
Post by: Rebelyell on October 23, 2012, 04:01:37 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=HNEBpu8eDsU&NR=1


also check out
http://www.youtube.com/user/NYHFA?feature=watch

Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: zagibu on October 23, 2012, 01:36:28 pm
Why is there even a debate? Why should a culture with low grade iron and no decent armors develop a weapon that can cut plate armor? And if the katana was really so super awesome, why did europe, whose knights could actually have made use of such a sword, not develop it?

The reasons are quite obvious. There is no need for a discussion at all.
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Osiris on October 23, 2012, 02:24:51 pm
because a lot of western people are infatuated with anything japanese :D oh katanas are best sword ever!! anime is superior to western films and cartoons etc etc
Title: Re: For all that katanna QQ boys
Post by: BlueKnight on October 23, 2012, 05:56:11 pm
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spummmmer  :D
Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Teeth on October 23, 2012, 06:58:08 pm
Quote from: mulas on October 23, 2012, 01:48:55 am
Highlight at 1:39.
Your highlight doesn't mean shit. As the two halves of the log jump away rather far, he is clearly cleaving the block, not cutting it. A proper cut would result in the blocks falling over at most. Cleaving is something entirely different than cutting. Cleaving just requires force, which means that a heavier blade, which I presume the broadsword to be, would perform better than a lighter blade. Hence why axes have all the weight concentrated behind a rather small blade.

The way he uses the katana reduces the katana to an edge with weight behind it. He is not using the curved blade for a certain cut motion that could perform better than a broadsword, he is just simply chopping. The only variables when testing like this are blade weight and blade sharpness. Which means that a broadsword with the same weight and a similarly sharpened edge would perform the same.

Furthermore this katana or current broadswords have very little to do with their historical counterparts, so a comparison is pretty much useless.



Title: Re: Katana Powa!
Post by: Miwiw on October 23, 2012, 07:09:04 pm
Quote from: mulas on October 23, 2012, 01:48:55 am
Witness the powa!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHsfGWkO7SM#movie_player

Highlight at 1:39.

No broadsword can have this kind of cutting power.

I can't take those guys serious.