How are swords still have a sharp edge after blocking so many direct slashes from a sharp tempered blade.
Imo sword should look like saws after even one session of blocking really anything made of metal.
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The kind of blade on blade blocking you see in films would be a desperation move in real life. Well executed parries guide the opponent’s weapon away without that kind of impact. And even as a desperate move it’s risky – your sword could break and then you’re fucked.
You don’t see that a whole bunch in surviving antiques because if they got all dinged and blunted they got rid of them 🤷
And if it helps make sense, I’ve worked in plays and movies where we used swords. In between takes/performances we’d have to file down the snags, even on the mostly blunted weapons we used in the actual fights. (For film closeups we’d have “hero” weapons, clean ones with the pristine edges) But it was always on our minds to avoid sword on bare skin in the choreography – you could get a snag during a sequence then draw a supposedly blunted edge along skin and cut the shit out of someone. As it was we would tear up costumes pretty regularly.
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