/r/Backyard_Cutters
A place for amateur practitioners of tameshigiri and HEMA cutting techniques to share sword recommendations (strictly "battle ready") , target ideas, practical techniques, and videos of use of these three. no sales, trades, or review posts
This sub is for:
amateur practitioners of tamashegiri and HEMA cutting techniques,
sharing sword recommendations (strictly battle ready),
target ideas,
practical techniques,
and videos of all these in use.
no sales or trades posts
Please refer to this guide for information about what you're looking for in a sword before attempting anything you see here
Guides on Steel:
Guides on Tsuka/Handle Wraps:
Places to order targets:
In your submissions please specify
[sword] and a description of known info as far as materials and construction
[target] soft, med, or hard and a description of materials used
[technique] and possibly which line of martial arts it came from
[style] What style or art is in the post. Whether it's a specific school of martial arts or a general style (ex. Western style, HEMA, Iaido, Battodo, ZNKR, ZNIR, MJER, Katori Shinto Ryu, Tenshin Ryu Hyoho, etc.)
[video] which can include any of the three above and must include demo and some form of review
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Been a good while since I posted here. Or since anything was posted by the looks of things... So here's me now, having practiced for a few months. Ignore the text, my tiktoks are like diary entries.
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From a little while back but I feel like I've really gotten better at noto. It's been interesting working with this sword.
21:32 UTC
So I wanna get better at noto (sheathing) but I can't help but feel I'm probably doing a lot of other stuff wrong. Here's the first of what may be a few submissions.
10:18 UTC
Three cuts with two swords
03:28 UTC
Anyone experienced a Darksword Armory product? Just got this and I was curious how they really are.
03:21 UTC
05:18 UTC
Apologies for the bad editing on some of the slow mo, but here’s some hot weather Texas cutting fun.
14:03 UTC
Cutting with 4 of my swords Dec 23, 2017
18:49 UTC
cut what now??...... [target]
Everyone cuts bottles, a lot of people cut mats... I have also read about clay cutting, what other things have you used to do test cutting and how did they work overall?
22:58 UTC
Western Sword Tameshigiri
19:36 UTC
Backyard cutting with a Cavalry Saber
01:53 UTC
Custom Hanwei/Tinker Longsword cutting
22:40 UTC
How your body moves in Tameshigiri.
16:56 UTC
[Video] Cutting technique seminar with Jake Norwood
20:10 UTC
Amazing Skills
18:18 UTC
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