The Armour Archive

Chan Lancelot

Wendall, you're totally correct. I think when I made the subtitles on the video, I was a bit too excited! I agree that the armor actually protected the target very well. We later tested again with my student doing the cut, as a compare. He couldn't even scratch the armor. We were unable to locate wh...

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/ErO9KBr976o
Test cutting industrial anti-cut bracer.

I've always compared cutting pork arm to cutting light armor. This video showed that the sword we had previously tested on pork arms without damaging the edge or bending, survived perfectly through the ordeal of cutting the armor.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/4BQh0SwfHV8

New move Reap testing

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/HBqKL1pAUo0
Jimmy test cut newspapers roll with a bastard sword, using Chinese method.

Chan Lancelot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdH5riWeWCU
A student trying out his upward diagonal cut.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/mKDyu1vkB9s

Tested the sharpened Carp Jian and Deva Slayer with the 2 sectional fajin cutting method, on wet slippery tiles floor.

Chan Lancelot

Thank you very much for your kind words and support!

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/8AaNjtfbsIk

This practice of turning cuts was performed to test the modified cuts after learning from the experience of the previous freestyle fencing.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/r7DWz30F_iE
After returning from Dragon Tail Beach, Fung came to collect his RSW order and we had a sparring practice for 100 rounds. I tested out some of my newly learned moves in the practice and realized how to use them effectively. Thanks Fung for practicing with me.

Chan Lancelot

Thanks Russ! They were indeed!

Chan Lancelot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwL0c_k7fB4 Practicing some advanced cuts with left hand leading, so that I can save the targets materials. The cuts shown in the videos were mostly "turning cuts" (except the one cutting from below to above). They were cuts with feints preceding the actual cuts. The d...

Chan Lancelot

1. We also do practice cutting with smaller, faster cuts in other cases. However, since this event is for testing the sword, thus we were doing the "maximum" (both I and the sword). There are some videos where I was doing the cuts I do. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtKCX6M6oE These a...

Chan Lancelot

Definitely. There maybe more test to this sword later, cutting more metallic stuff. LOL!

Chan Lancelot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebZp55GViow I was invited by a Lung Chuan Forge to test their new katana to extreme. So I tried it on cutting pork arms, performing lateral strikes on opponent's weapon, cutting metallic container of volatile adhesive and receiving Chinese style "weapon destructing" st...

Chan Lancelot

Lim Chee Kia from a Singapore sparring group had paid us a visit on Friday and we had done plenty sparring. I for one had sparred with him for 90 rounds! And the he sparred with my students. Here are the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34vGbU4v7s My sparring with Lim's sword and shield http:...

Chan Lancelot

Hhahah thanks Cooper for that! I didn't know he was such a writer!!!

Chan Lancelot

I didn't know he was a writer either.

He writes good, though!

Chan Lancelot

It was based on a real life visit made by Cooper to me.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technolog ... ingle.html

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/INKuF5C1rfc Swords testing day Cutting pork arms is a task that is very demanding on the swords' quality and the swordsman's skill. The pork bone has calcified since the cease of bloodflow, rendering it much harder than the living bone tissues, surpassing the hardness of human bones....

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/rlzwF3qpXcs

Practiced sparring with our friend Toyama Ryu Jack who practices katana for 30 rounds.

Chan Lancelot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6uwRRX1NY
Left handed single handed leg cut technique

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/INKuF5C1rfc Swords testing day Cutting pork arms is a task that is very demanding on the swords' quality and the swordsman's skill. The pork bone has calcified since the cease of bloodflow, rendering it much harder than the living bone tissues, surpassing the hardness of human bones....

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/ItwJPDBShuA Keith Chow was test cutting newspapers rolls with windlass 15th century longsword and katana. http://youtu.be/rotweb6oqXw Dicky Lei test cut under heavy rain with katana. http://youtu.be/ZEe1DLJN6f0 Keith with longsword practiced sparring with Lancelot, under lightning st...

Chan Lancelot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzlbevdDEs This is the part 2 of the demonstrations, where it was an outsider sparring with my students. The RSW involved were an expert grade katana waiting to be re-padded, and 2 models of Chinese 2 handed long Dao. The heavier Dao among the 2 models was as heavy as...

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/TTPNiJSVbFA

This is a video I've made in response to some reports that the self-modified RSW at a couple overseas locations were hitting very hard, making them dangerous. This is to show its degree of safety in our original standard.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/lEriWIbuFo0

Today another martial art club visited my place to practice test cutting. I did some cutting along with them, where I mostly finished the newspapers rolls they left behind, using my sword Deva Slayer and the katana I loaned to them.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/_pKqpuPoHMA
Practicing with a Miao Dao student Yung Tze Him from a friendly Chinese martial arts club.

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/9_htrl0pthQ

Sparring with a Chinese martial artist! We sparred for 41 rounds, he had 1 life left and I had 36 left.

Chan Lancelot

Thanks Thaddeus, I'll forward him your advice as well!

Chan Lancelot

I've put up an activity report here:
http://www.rsw.com.hk/activities.htm#lung-dak-5

Chan Lancelot

Thanks for your support!

Chan Lancelot

Thanks for your information and tips. I'll tell him about that advice. He's aware of that video. It's his first time doing weaponry sparring with such weapon so he'll improve along time. I enjoy the video where the instructors in the above link were engaged in a fast, steel saber combat demonstration!

Chan Lancelot

http://youtu.be/eL8nCZyNCxI
Ali came over to collect his Russian Shasqua RSW and I invited him to do some sparring practice with me. With each of us starting with 50 life points, he had 1 left at the end of 50 rounds while I had 43.

Chan Lancelot

A friendly Iaidoka came over to practice sparring with us. I was the first to spar: http://youtu.be/n0YfwJ9whQI We sparred 50 rounds and each of us has 50 lifepoints. At the end of the bout, I had 37.5 lifepoints left while he had 8 left. The pokka was added after frame by frame review of the bout a...

Chan Lancelot

Yes, local, but lives quite far away.

Re: Cutting industrial anti-cut bracer

Cutting industrial anti-cut bracer

Testing a new move

Re: Student practice cutting

Student practice cutting

Test cut on slippery tiles

Re: Advanced cuts right handed version

Advanced cuts right handed version

Re: Left handed advanced cuts

Re: Left handed advanced cuts

Left handed advanced cuts

Re: Sword Test day 3

Re: Sword Test day 3

Sword Test day 3

Singapore friend's visit

Re: A Real Fight Club With Swords—and a Famous Sci-Fi Writer

Re: A Real Fight Club With Swords—and a Famous Sci-Fi Writer

A Real Fight Club With Swords—and a Famous Sci-Fi Writer

Swords testing day

Sparring with a Toyama Ryu friend

Left handed single handed leg cut technique

Swords testing day

Friends visit during typhoon

Re: RSW safety demonstration

RSW safety demonstration

Slow motion test cut video

Sparring with a Miao Dao student from another club

Sparring with a Chinese martial artist

Re: Sparring with a friend with Russian Shasqua

The 5th private tourney

Re: Sparring with a friend with Russian Shasqua

Re: Sparring with a friend with Russian Shasqua

Sparring with a friend with Russian Shasqua

Sparring with an Iaidoka

Re: Sparring with a self-taught German longsword friend