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Old 3rd July 2006, 02:24 PM   #13
S.Al-Anizi
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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
If you really are interested in the subject, you should go back, looking for signs, when the tulwar hilt started to look like it has for several hundreds of years, and why you are at it, you should also take an interest in the very early hilts. Maybe this will tell you more than watching the video clips. Although they are interesting, and the movements very elegant, they are hardly fighting technique.
I must agree with you Jens, this looks more like dancing and stage fighting swordplay rather than fighting techniques, pretty much like the Syrian "hakam" sword dancing we saw a long time ago on SFI.
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