Yesterday I did one small crazy thing I put aside for a long time. I bought straight Chinese sword (training of course), middle size, just to have that experience how to operate it and what could be an unexpectable usage. 3 months ago I received another example from that family - a pare of Korean dancing knives. So it`s a good time to make summary about all collectibles.

First of all, I am not a collectioner and usually avoid expensive things just because of two reasons: first - I dont`like to feel enslaved by expensive things and prefer to be light and independant from it a part of my Buddhists practice. Second reason is the really perfect swords deserve masters to be an owner. I am just a student know this and that, investigating what new horizonts things keeps. So i require rom mine swords just to be authentic, beautiful and functional. Korean Dancing knifes ( a pare of short on the upper part of the picture below) have flexible holding to the handle with 3 metal disks, and 7 metal petals holds along the blade. This decoration make a cembalo sound which is good to make movement in rhitm (but a little bit noisy to my test so I ordered one more without petals). I hold 2 red clusters on the handles in order to have fine movement control, also it is beautiful. I like that knives and use it for dancing meditative practice.

My new Chinese sword is really light weight, actually too light weight (I suppose it is for TaiChi practice to a child). The blade is so thin so trembling on the top. But it is beautiful, have authentic view and at least useful to have new experience in movement. Tha point is it`s red clasters is too much long and heavy. I suppose it designed especially to student who have no care about his\her nose, so I need a time to think how to deal with it. May be I`ll cut it off! 8-)

I compare those swords with my old two. Wood training katana is about 90 cv long and pleasant to handle it, I use it to have a training with music. Although it is not weight (about 1 kg) it long enough to keep diafragma and feets strong and feel the energy while train it. Also the wood made it less interesting to witnesses and so suitable to use in our park (which keeps my crystal luster safe after I broke several things by bamboo stave).

The black sword is about 1 kg too, not so long but I like it because the metal is not too bad as usually and it have delighting fine curved blade.

So now i have everything to investigation or to simple exercises, it`s the time to stop with new ones and don`t be lazy to practise. Oh, this is the really hardest part of everything!

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