For all of you swords collector and practitionners, here is a movie that might interest all of you.

This is the first of its kind documentary. This film is all about European and Asian historic swordplay. On top of that it will offer a in-depth look at the fascinating world of stage combat on the silver screen.

Here is the official description fof the movie:

“The Medieval and Renaissance blade, a profound and beautiful object handcrafted by master artisans of old. An object of great complexity, yet one with a singular use in mind- it is designed to kill. The truth of the sword has been shrouded in antiquity, and the Renaissance martial arts that brought it to being are long forgotten. The ancient practitioners lent us all they knew through their manuscripts. As gunslingers of the Renaissance they were western heroes with swords, and they lived and died by them. Yet today their history remains cloaked under a shadow of legend.”

 Get all the info you need about this amazing movie: Reclaiming the Blade

Today let me introduce Iaito swords. For those that are not familiar with the term Iaido is an ancient Martial art that is specialized in practicing forms and kata. This art is often referred to as “Moving Zen”. I have put together a small article for those that consider themselves Iaidoka.

My article is nothing more than a more in depth explanation of the art of Iaido and a small list of high quality Iaido Japanese Swords.

Of course there are many more Iaito swords available on the market, but i truly think that the one proposed in this article are of the highest quality.

Note: These can also be purchased by the sword collector. I myself have purchased one and even though they are not battle-ready swords, i can honestly say that they are amazing.

Talk to you soon.

The longsword was used to strike, cut and thrust, but the great thing about this type of sword is that their shape were designed with offensive purposes in mind. All parts of the sword could be used in combat including the pommel and the crossguard.

The longsword are often refered to as :

- Hand & a Half
- Greatsword
- Bastard sword

The Blade:

• The Fueller the groove that can be found on most medieval swords. This groove is designed to lighten the blade while allowing it to retain its strengh and stiffness.
• Weak (foible): This is a simple term used to describe the point between the tip of the sword and the center of the blade.
• Strong (forte): Term used to describe the point between the center of the blade and the hilt.
• Rain guard (chappe):  Term used to describe the flap of leather attached at the base of the blade or crossguard. The “Chappe” helps to prevent the water from entering the scabbard.

The Hilt: The hilt can be separated in three simple part, the grip, the guard and the pommel.

• The grip is the part where you hold the sword.
• The guard: This part of the hilt serves two purposes. First it prevents the wielder from punching shields while swinging the weapon and it also protect the hands by preventing other blade from sliding down on the hand of the weapon wielder.
• The Pommel helps to improve the sword balance but can also be used as a weapon in close combat.

The Scabbard: This is simply the cover of the blade when it is not used. Over the ages different materials were used in its confection. Materials like

• leather
• wood
• brass
• steel

For more information about sword terminology you can visit wikipedia.

The middle Ages are commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 26th century. Some of the worst fighting took place in the High Middle Age period during the Crusades. A period where armies attempted to liberate Jerusalem from the Muslim control.

The swords used during that period are very popular amongst medieval sword collectors.

Medieval swords are often simple in appearance while Fantasy swords are more extravagant in their look. While some of the fantasy swords can look like a medieval one, it is important to do your own research.

Fantasy swords are very popular amongst sword collectors, as a collector I personally own several of those swords… Swords Like this are just too amazing and are a great addition to any sword collection:

While I perfectly know that swords like that were never used in any period during history, they are still attractive. For the ones that love fantasy worlds and movies, there are kind of a piece of these worlds hanging in you living room’s wall.

Since I am a huge movie fan (I own around 450 movies) i decided to combine both of my passions and further improve my sword collection. Of course I needed to buy only the best swords available; my collection contains only high quality swords.

Learn more about how I started collecting Movie swords.

Do you share that passion too?

The medieval Weapons can be separated in many sections. Too keep things short; here is just a small resume of the categories of weapons that could be found in the medieval times.

• Axes
• Daggers & knives
• Swords
• Blunt Weapons
• Polearms
• Tactic
• Ranged
• Siege
• Warships
• Armour
• Fortification

Personally i have a huge preference for the medieval swords and any other types of swrods. What about you?

The Samurai sword also called the Katana is probably the most advance sword ever forged in the history. It is important to understand that the term Katana is often usesd incorrectly as a generic name for a Japanese sword. This is wrong, there are actually a lot of different Japanese swords, the katana is simply the weapon of choice used by most samurai.

Katana were often paired with the Wakizashi or “Shoto” which is similar but smaller version of the Katana. Katana were mostly worn by the warrior class. Some warrior were also wearing the Tanto which the smaller version (The size of a dagger). The weapons combined togheter were called the Daisho and were considered by Samurai to be linked with their honour and for some, their soul.

As you can imagine, there are so mouch more that can be said about the Katana, the wakizashi and even the tanto, let’s just start by saying that these sword are amazing.

As a fan of every type of sword, we will also talk about the various swords that were seen in history, like the Medieval swords, roman and viking swords, ninja weapons and more…

That should be interesting don’t you think?

Talk to You Soon!

You see we don’t have a lot of free time when we are at the station but on occasion we have nothing to do. We got together and bought two game consoles, the xbox 360 and the Wii so that we can all chill and have some fun together.

Some of the younger firefighters like to play some kind of fantasy role playing game but let’s just say that most of us like to gather around and play some sort of fantasy game on the video game console. For my part I really like the game God of war.

I mean this guy in the game is awesome and i am not even talking about the two huge medieval swords he carries…those things are huge. Loll.

Anyway while some of us prefer to play sports or other type of games, my personal thing is fantasy games…I need to play the role of the warrior fighting with some sort of medieval of fantasy sword.

Games like Prince of Persia where I get to carry two huge fantasy swords or Tenchu where I get to be a ninja fighting with a samurai sword or any other type of ninja weapons. Theses games are my personal favourites

But hey that’s just me