Sword Fight

For the record it's not really a "sword fight" if only one guy's got a sword.

Can you imagine getting cornered in an office by a guy with a sword? I need to start carrying some sort of defensive weapon.
 
00Burdell said:
Clearly the attacker was not from Japan. Samurai swords aren't stabbing weapons, they are made for slashing. If you want to stab someone, use a knife.
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+1

A true Samurai would not stab with a Katana unless in a situation where he could not swing his blade.
 
GTFanJeff said:
+1

A true Samurai would not stab with a Katana unless in a situation where he could not swing his blade.
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Isn't the whole point of a Katana being able to use it in tight, confined spaces---i.e., its usefulness over a long sword is in those situations?

Of course, I'm sure sword fights happen all the time other places on campus.
 
TechSBP said:
Isn't the whole point of a Katana being able to use it in tight, confined spaces---i.e., its usefulness over a long sword is in those situations?

Of course, I'm sure sword fights happen all the time other places on campus.
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You and your innuendo.
 
TechSBP said:
Isn't the whole point of a Katana being able to use it in tight, confined spaces---i.e., its usefulness over a long sword is in those situations?

Of course, I'm sure sword fights happen all the time other places on campus.
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The Katana is a fairly long sword (the Wakizashi is the Samurai short sword). It is also pretty heavy.

Go swing one and you will see what I mean.

Also, the Samurai use Bokken to train for the slashing style of fighting. Bokken hurt really bad when getting hit by them. I have fought my friends with them before.
 
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gtzulu said:
He was Indian, you racist. I'm surprised he didn't use a tomahawk.
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Not that kind of Indian.

Shrotri was born in Pune, Maharashtra, India, according to his PhD dissertation. Before attending Georgia Tech, he earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, University of Pune and master's degree. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Purdue University.
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NatiJacket said:
To the Georgia Tech campus community:

Earlier this afternoon an unfortunate incident occurred on campus that concerns us all. A post-doctoral research fellow in the School
of Aerospace Engineering was injured by an assailant who attacked him with a sword. The assailant was quickly subdued by Georgia Tech
police officers, one of whom was injured during the arrest.
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I'm sorry, I know this is a serious situation, but I could not help from completely cracking up when I read this. This thread is awesome.
 
Katanas are one-hit-one-kill slashing weapons, designed to sever limbs with a single swing, or to make a clean cut from the neck, through the rib cage, to the heart, with an overhead downward slash. They are not stabbing weapons, and if the guy stabbed with it then clearly he was either poorly trained, or had no training at all.

Unlike the movies, samurai fighting styles are NOT based around parry, riposte, tippy tappy stuff, it's all about who beats the other guy to the deathblow first. Even withdrawing the sword from the scabbard is a strike. Most true samurai sword fights were over in a matter of seconds - think Wild West Gunfight. Both guys charged and whoever swung first won.

If this guy wasn't such a dork, he probably would have killed his target.

PTCJacket said:
He graduated from Virginia Tech, according to his facebook profile. 'Nuff said.
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Is this true?


Also, for the record, I carried a scottish claymore past a cop at the front door of the SAE house one Halloween. It was part of my Braveheart costume. The cop asked to see it, I handed it to him, he hefted it / etc and handed it back to me. It was a replica, and wasn't sharp, but I easily could have killed someone with it if I swung hard enough and hit them in the head. I was happy the cop gave it back to me.
 
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beej67 said:
Katanas are one-hit-one-kill slashing weapons, designed to sever limbs with a single swing, or to make a clean cut from the neck, through the rib cage, to the heart, with an overhead downward slash. They are not stabbing weapons, and if the guy stabbed with it then clearly he was either poorly trained, or had no training at all.

Unlike the movies, samurai fighting styles are NOT based around parry, riposte, tippy tappy stuff, it's all about who beats the other guy to the deathblow first. Even withdrawing the sword from the scabbard is a strike. Most true samurai sword fights were over in a matter of seconds - think Wild West Gunfight. Both guys charged and whoever swung first won.

If this guy wasn't such a dork, he probably would have killed his target.


Is this true?


Also, for the record, I carried a scottish claymore past a cop at the front door of the SAE house one Halloween. It was part of my Braveheart costume. The cop asked to see it, I handed it to him, he hefted it / etc and handed it back to me. It was a replica, and wasn't sharp, but I easily could have killed someone with it if I swung hard enough and hit them in the head. I was happy the cop gave it back to me.
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Beej, sounds like you fit right in. Did you know these dudes?
 
Employer: VPI
Position: Post Doctoral Associate
Time Period: April 2009 - June 2009

Okay, so I read it wrong and thought he graduated from there. But he still drank the water in Blacksburg, VA.
 
GTFanJeff said:
The Katana is a fairly long sword (the Wakizashi is the Samurai short sword). It is also pretty heavy.

Go swing one and you will see what I mean.

Also, the Samurai use Bokken to train for the slashing style of fighting. Bokken hurt really bad when getting hit by them. I have fought my friends with them before.
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You people are really debating whether or not the guy used the proper weaponry given his situation? Wow. And people think I'm a nerd...
 
gtphd said:
You people are really debating whether or not the guy used the proper weaponry given his situation? Wow. And people think I'm a nerd...
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Well, we are all nerds. When the mutt fans chant "nerds" at our game, it is the same thing as pointing at the sky and chanting "blue," or pointing back at them and chanting "inbred." For our fans that aren't alumni, you are now guilty by association, if not guilty in reality.

The nerd thing isn't a stereotype. It is true. And there is nothing wrong with it, so long as you don't get carried away. Using a sword, well, that is taking it too far---same with going to one of those silly comic conventions.
 
TechSBP said:
Well, we are all nerds. When the mutt fans chant "nerds" at our game, it is the same thing as pointing at the sky and chanting "blue," or pointing back at them and chanting "inbred." For our fans that aren't alumni, you are now guilty by association, if not guilty in reality.

The nerd thing isn't a stereotype. It is true. And there is nothing wrong with it, so long as you don't get carried away. Using a sword, well, that is taking it too far---same with going to one of those silly comic conventions.
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In '08, the U[sic]GA band chanted "NERDS! NERDS! NERDS!" at our players when they came out onto the field. In no other situation will you ever see a hundred dorky, scrawny/fat, loser white kids calling a group of 100 ripped athletes "nerds." I quite appreciated the irony.
 
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