Sakura No Kaze
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« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2020, 05:41:19 AM » |
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One note regarding dueling with the mid-grades, since they will bend with moderate to hard contact, it's very easy to wrinkle the blade film inside the blade, and that's a royal pain to fix. Not impossible or difficult, just tedious.
I always use Heavy Grade blades because it doesn't matter how hard I'm dueling, they can take it. So it doesn't matter if we want to just do light sparring or full on dueling, we're good to go (meaning we don't have to worry about switching blades).
Also, the heavy grades will be closer (not by much, but still closer) to what you're used to with steel weapons, and more importantly are more likely to give your sabers a similar balance to what you're used to with a steel sword.
As far as combat grade, as has been mentioned, you'll probably break before these blades do. Unless you're intentionally trying to destroy them, as far as sparring they will last forever. They will get scuffed/scraped/marred from sparring, so I'd have a sparring set and a "look pretty" set of blades (if that matters to you, I could care less how damaged the my blades get). One VERY important note, do NOT, ever, ever, EVER get acetone on your blades. It will destroy the polycarbonate, especially if the blade already has scrapes, etc. on it's surface. If you want to do a science experiment, take an old CD/DVD scuff/scratch it up, and put some acetone on the surface and just watch.
Light vs. heavy forms of combat irl… not exactly. In my mind "light" combat simply means you're moving slower, and "heavy" combat means you're moving faster. I don't really think there are specific techniques/moves that would be considered light or heavy. My suggestions would be: 1) "Light" combat would have a more limited target selection for strikes, and probably very limited thrust attacks. 2) "Heavy" combat would have a wider availability of targets and allow more thrust attacks. 3) ALWAYS wear protective gear whether you're going light or heavy. At a minimum groin protection (ladies this applies to you too, I've seen on more that one occasion a cut to the thigh be deflected not enough and turn into a thrust and that's all I'll say about that), eye/head protection, and protection for your fingers/hands.
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