Knife aficianados should enjoy this--competitive blade sports competition. Sorta like a lumberjack competition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvyIBymV ... r_embedded
The above is the US championships, the world championship is at the link, but here it is as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYf56up ... re=related
ETA: The second vid gives a closer look at the knives used--they look more like a cross between cleavers and machetes. Cutting a golf ball in two with a single stroke can't be easy.
Blade Sports
- Darrell
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Re: Blade Sports
Okay, I can't let this go--Cautionary Tales of Swords:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RpbaUU ... r_embedded
Shamelessly stolen from arfcom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RpbaUU ... r_embedded
Shamelessly stolen from arfcom.
Eppur si muove--Galileo
- 308Mike
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Re: Blade Sports
Try this one. OUCH!!!
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad