The ants were bad, but the sword fight on the moving cars through cut out lanes in the jungle just before that was SOOO much worse.

are there some hardcore aikido videos out there?
i trained it for a few years, and what i liked the best that i learned from it, was to break all kinds of falls. useful stuff and some of the tricks from aikido worked well in medieval sword fighting practice as well.

What no ending, maybe there is an epic sword fight where nature itself trembles before the brutality of survival...maybe

SWORD FIGHT!

interesting fact: both actors did all their own stunts, including sword fighting and sword fighting left handed. the only stunt that wasnt one of the actors was the backflip by the Dread Pirate Roberts.

Yeah I actually kinda like the intro, but I was afraid some of the ADD people would stop watching if they didn't see the sword fight after 20 seconds. I wonder where they found a bamboo forest to shoot in?

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“I love bamboo, and the beginning was my favorite part!”

well, this video does highlight my main problem with hollywood style sword fights. the idea is to hit your opponent, not your opponent's sword! So in many instances where the opponent is wide open for a strike, the striker goes for the sword instead because it makes a cool clang/spark.

This is a show, a demonstration. Hardly will you ever see a real fight, because real fights are over before they begin.

But i do prize SCA style fighting and was apart of the Barony of the Blue Moon.

Most of the time if you wish to see how the art is used practically you would have to go to the school personally. When i practice with a partner, there is no armor and rattan is very dangerous with out armor. The main thing with Aikido is in order to keep your partner out of the hospital is for it to be a fluid like a dance. If they went on the premise that the bout was for one school or another's pride (old day thinking) then it would be the fight would last less than a second. The nature of the samurai sword is not to bash an opponents armor, hack a leg off. The use of the sword is to slice, and cause massive trauma to weak points on the body and armor. The underarm, the elbow, the back of the knee, the crotch, the upper part of the neck above the gorget(the throat guard i think i spelled it wrong), and the face.

When i was in the SCA i asked if i could use a Japanese style for fighting, and i was denounced, under the premise that i would be obliterated do to the fact that they had shields. The main thing is that when a pair of knights fought each other in duel there was still a chance that both could live at the end, the tradition was in Japan that one of the dueling party had to die. They pride their traditions more than their practice of brute force, and therefore we never really see how the art is used practically.

BUT!!!!! Kendo is As we will get to seeing a real sword fight.

And we all know that real fights always come down to who wants to live the most, so in the end what you know doesnt matter its what you do in the fight that does.

But Rembar i respect your position, and i often find myself wondering the martial arts are so much like a dance between two lovers. Its laughable to watch some of these things, but the first time i told my father about how much Tai Chi was a silly game that only old softies play, he showed me the difference between practicing the art, and its use.

But ill look to see if i can find a situation other than kendo that shows Japanese medieval fighting in the practical way!

Medieval sword fighting to rockin metal? This was '82, Highlander was '86... could it be? What do you guys think?