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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1511960" data-attributes="member: 812">Not to step on Trainz' act, but those are from an issue of Black Belt magazine, I believe. It's also worth pointing out that they do not in fact illustrate the technique Trainz is describing, but are from a variety of forms and placed out of order to give the idea of what he's trying to explain.And well done, too. Describing kata is always so frustrating.Very nice. I have an early Tokugawa sword that my dojo mates helped me track down and acquire while I was in Japan. I have a license for it and everything (in Japan they have a special department that issues licenses to own ancient swords. It's not 100% clear that I was allowed to take the weapon out of the country but I told the Japanese custom guys it was a fake and they never took it out of the saya so phew!). I was very lucky in purchasing it. A collector well-known to folks at my dojo had decided to finance getting his "good" blades polished by selling off some of his "crap" blades. This one was in that lot and we picked it because it's really long and me being all beanpole that was the best choice. But from the extra hole in the tang it's clear it was once much longer than it is now -- it must have been close to Mifune's monster blade in The Seven Samurai! It's my only real blade -- I have a couple of stamped-aluminum replicas given to me by folks that possess sentimental value. But my sword remains the most valuable object I've ever owned in my life. It's quite possibly worth more than EVERYTHING else I own put together.Never. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> You'd better. When I first started using katana rather than bokken I was surprised at how little they weighed.</blockquote>

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