poor shinai

[Dr. Hellsing]

http://www.scholasaintgeorge.org/shinai.html

i let out a discusted grunt when i saw this.

[Ignatz]

The guys woodworking skills are nonexistent. How could he burn the wood that bad making those cuts?

[Mr. Donigan]

The packing tape adds a nice asthetic quality.

[Dr. Hellsing]

all they have to do now is spary paint it in silver XDD

[tantadi]

Putting foam into the tip, and then taping the now too short tip, doesn't look exactly safe to me. Suddenly they will have the pointy tips of the slats in their face.

[Mr. Donigan]

I admit, I played with home made swords, and dressed up like knights. However, I was a kid and eventually found kendo. I put the toys away and took it more seriously. It's the taking the toy (home made) swords so seriously that weirds me out about these guys.

[Dr. Hellsing]

and they laugh at us for wearing "dresses"

[MiChuhSuh]

I admit, I played with home made swords, and dressed up like knights. However, I was a kid and eventually found kendo. I put the toys away and took it more seriously. It's the taking the toy (home made) swords so seriously that weirds me out about these guys.

Hey if they have fun with it and that's their thing, I don't see a problem (minus the respect for the shinai). Some people would laugh at us for "dressing up like samurai" and in fact I'm sure they do.

I know some historian-actors who take their art (Medieval European styles) as seriously as we take our JSA, I have respect for them just as we should get respect from them.

The only thing is, this guy's work pretty much sucked. I don't see him morally in the wrong but he's really not good enough to try to teach people about woodwroking, as earlier stated, and there are issues of safety. But I think his target audence was people who don't want to spend more than half a day or $50 on this and will leave their piece sitting in the garage by the next week.

[ne0r]

Hmm.. I find it a quite good idea. I mean, using wooden swords like in middle ages wouldn't be a good idea.. So it's quite good, cheap, and fast to produce. It's only an experiment, I see, so they will improve (I hope). Hmm.. but the thing with the tip.. does it make any sense? IMO that's not perfectly safe.. But, ok, I don't know how they use the sword-thingies.. Looks quite funny in the end!

@MiChuSuh: Exactly my opinion!

[Mr. Donigan]

Hey if they have fun with it and that's their thing, I don't see a problem (minus the respect for the shinai). Some people would laugh at us for "dressing up like samurai" and in fact I'm sure they do.

I know some historian-actors who take their art (Medieval European styles) as seriously as we take our JSA, I have respect for them just as we should get respect from them.

The only thing is, this guy's work pretty much sucked. I don't see him morally in the wrong but he's really not good enough to try to teach people about woodwroking, as earlier stated, and there are issues of safety. But I think his target audence was people who don't want to spend more than half a day or $50 on this and will leave their piece sitting in the garage by the next week.

I guess I was a bit quick to judge. I suppose I'm a little warry due to some of the SCA people I've met arround town. As far as people making fun of us, I've never noticed. I think Kendo being the national sport of Japan helps some when we get to explain what we're doing.

[yohed55]

Didn't he have the red shipping/packing strings still on that shinai? Come on; I knew I was supposed to take those off the first time I even looked at a shinai.

[MiChuhSuh]

^ I think he wants to leave them there to keep it a solid "one-piece" as much as possible.