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fighting with blunted, real swords is called livesteel fighting on the Ren faire circuit, but while the swords are blunt, they will still cause severe injury or death if used without upmost care- so to start with you need some good instruction, and kendo swords or fencing swords to practice with, along with at least a minimum of safety gear- belive me when I say that you must know what you are doing to play with what are in essence metal clubs-
once you have training under your belt, Paul Chen makes the very best live steel blades I have seen- about $115.00 retail for the practical medieval sword- $135.00 for the practical hand and a half- as for japenese weapons, everyone I know uses boken or shinai to stage combat- same cautions apply to the Boken as to live steel blades, it is still an excelent bludgeoning weapon and requires skill and care.
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Mood the more as our might lessens
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