"The exercising of weapons putteth away aches, griefs, and diseases, it increaseth strength and sharpeneth the wits, it giveth a perfect judgment, it expelleth melancholy, choleric, and evil conceits, it keepeth a man in breath, in perfect healthe, and long life." – George Silver (1599)

My fav youtube comment – “hdizzal3-this? look like 2 chinese men bitch slapping each other”

Ha! Mockery!

This is good though. Lesson – Jump kicks are passe.

battle nuns sword discordia
thx telarus


This is not very good swordfighting but whatever. Apparently when you show up to a fight in heels, everybody agrees to take them off before fighting. Fortunately their cocktail dresses aren’t very constricting. Oh wait, maybe it would be better if they were so they’d shed them too.

kojiro fail

Oh me or my (& re last post)… why couldn’t somebody just man up and do this?

From 2002

Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi Ramadan made the following remarks without giving any outward sign he was joking, although reporters who were present detected a note of irony in his voice.

“Bush wants to attack the whole (of) Iraq, the army and the infrastructure,” Ramadan said.

“The American president should specify a group, and we will specify a group and choose neutral ground, with Kofi Annan as referee, and use one weapon, with a president against a president, a vice president against a vice president, and a minister against a minister in a duel. In this way we are saving the American and the Iraqi people.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/dueling.html
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/10/03/iraq.bush.duel/

Back in the day, kings led charges and Alexander the Great was the first over the wall. Our modern commanders’ only sword is their pen and the only blood they risk is strangers’.