- Freestyle fencing with the historical arsenal
Video Gallery
Video Gallery
Demonstrations and Interviews
There were people who raised concern that the RSW would have more air resistance than a sharp sword. Thus I conducted two tests to pit the sharp DS and No Remorse against their RSW version and compared the cutting speed.
There were people who think that using RSW to spar cannot do the same line control as the steel sword, since any impact feels different. I did a test side by side, with RSW katana and RSW longsword, as well as a hanwei katana and a windlass 15th century longsword.
I used the katana tip to hit the other sword, with single hand, since my other hand was holding the cam.
On the side to edge impact, it shows that it was exactly behaving the same. On the edge to edge impact, I screwed up the steel part since the windlass 15th century longsword has side rings. The katana's strikes get distracted by the side rings. Still one can see that the result is pretty close despite of that.
Our Singapore distributor conducted a public sparring demo.
Realistic Sparring Weapons's part in RTHK program "Kung Fu Legend".
Realistic Sparring Weapons was featured on a local television program of TVB.
Our Battojutsu customers in Germany demonstrated sparring with RSW .
Swordfest 2009 and Ishi Yama Ryu demonstrated sparring with RSW .
Russia-based new weaponry sparring sports Wespar was demonstrating with Realistic Sparring Weapons.
Ishiyama Ryu Battojutsu sparring video with RSW katana.
We were invited to perform a demonstration on German longsword swordsmanship. It was probably the first demonstration narrated in Chinese / Cantonese about this subject in the world. Lancelot Chan, Unicorn Poh and Zachary Au Yeung showed the effectiveness of German style longsword fighting to 40 attendees.
A highlight of the 5 master cuts from German Longsword system applied in full contact Freestyle fencing.
As a response to some swordsmanship practitioners who concentrate on delivering hard blows, here we made a video to investigate how hard one has to hit in order to inflict effective damage in unarmored combat and the difficulty in crashing through opponent's defense with hard blows.
Another Cable TV interview of our activity. Presented in Cantonese and Mandarin.
Haidong Gumdo crews Anthony Boyd, Lorne Oliver and Doug Lusby performing a demo using RSW.
The TV show of our part.
Freestyle Fencing
More sparring clips in Activities session.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom and his sword and buckler.
Tom wore his steel gorget and gauntlets, thus hits to his neck and hands in the sparring were not counted. Lancelot wielded his Brescia Spadona RSW in German Sigmund Ringeck style to spar against Tom and his Brescia Spadona RSW as well as the combination of sword and shield .
(Tom's armor 5mb mpg. Sparring videos 25mb mpg each. Part 1 Part 2)
Hugh vs Gunbuster, spear fight.
Wraith with his basket hilt sword and shield vs Lancelot with his longsword.
Hugh with his spear vs Wraith with his basket hilt sword and shield.
Gunbuster vs Kalun, spear fight.
Lancelot with spear vs Hugh with butterfly swords.
Lancelot with his Brescia Spadona RSW with Sigmund Ringeck style vs Hugh Driver's Hung Gar Butterfly Swords.
Lancelot with his Brescia Spadona RSW with Sigmund Ringeck style vs Hugh Driver's Hung Gar spear.
Lancelot testing with a custom made basket-hilt sword against Alikool's Chinese Jian. The superiority of the basket hilt's design, which was practically a sword and shield combination wielded by one hand, was evident.
Lancelot testing with a custom made basket-hilt sword against Kit's Japanese Katana. Even the two handed leverage was no match against the combination of sword and buckler in one hand.
Maurya and his RSW European long sabre vs Lancelot with his Brescia Spadona RSW. A furious exchanges of blows in German Sigmund Ringeck's style.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW fighting in German Sigmund Ringeck's style vs King's European bastard sabre.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW fighting in German Sigmund Ringeck's style vs Zachary's English Two Hander.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom's English Two Hander.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Zachary's European longsword.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Rock's Zulu War Spear.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Maurya's hand and a half sabre.
Tom and his sword and buckler vs Chiu's Katana.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom and his sword and buckler.
Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW vs Tom and his rapier and buckler.
Tom and his English rapier vs Lancelot and his Brescia Spadona RSW.
Rock and Dipsy dueled with Zulu war spear.
Kalun and his large Bagua Jian vs Rock and his Zulu War Spear. There were a lot of hard thrusts to the throat in this sparring session!
Kalun and his Katana vs Parke's European longsword. Both parties were doing their best and there were many heavy hits.
We installed a wireless camera behind Lancelot's cage and took footage of Realistic Sparring Weapons combat from a first-person perspective, showing the thrill only experienced when facing the opponent on the field.
Han vs Anthony Boyd, Haidong Gumdo style.
Oh vs Anthony Boyd, Haidong Gumdo style.
James and Graham sparred with different sword and shield combinations.
Korea Haidong Gumdo sparring with RSW Katana.
Korea Haidong Gumdo sparring with RSW Katana and Claymore.
Simon and his light Jian vs James's sword and shield. It was a terrific show of speed vs power.
Simon vs James, a spear fight. James employed his fencing techniques. Despite it was just his second time wielding the spear, he was already very good at it.
Simon wielding his light Jian fought Alfred and the longsword. It was a contest of speed against reach!
James with sword and shield fought two opponents in the same time, Ka Lun with a Katana and Maurya with a Tulwar.