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Hi guys

Check out my website on classical Chinese swords:

http://thomaschen.freewebspace.com/


My essay on Chinese swords vs Japanese swords...
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Dude, it's just a fancy decorative aesthetic feature...

Hi guys

I have just updated my Chinese swords website with new pics and info... Do check it out if you are interested..


Regards
Thomas Chen

Hi guys

Check out these 12 antique daos and jians that have been polished to reveal the beauty of their construction....

http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=41296


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To Steve Cottrell (aka MantisifuFW)

RE: I would encourage you to look into the Tanglang two handed Jian. There were even old texts that utilized both Japanese and Chinese techniques for this...

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I am glad that they caught this tyrant. Countless Iraqis have suffered under his rule and from the cruel behaviour of his 2 sons, especially Uday.

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Hi guys

There was this fellow, lets call him Q, who had posted some interesting comments on the current state of Chinese martial arts on another forum. He views CMA very negatively. As I am not...

Also check out this picture of an antique Qing Dynasty Chinese Imperial 2-handed saber with trimmings of gold on the intricate fittings. Wouldn't it be COOL to use this for Miao Dao practice ??......

Hi All

His name is Guo Ruixiang, and in my opinion, this man is the foremost Miao Dao expert in mainland China. Check out his moves:

http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?threadid=24935

Hi guys

Long time no post.

Do take the time to check out this exquisite Qing Dynasty Imperial Chinese jian on my website:


http://chineseswords.freewebspace.com/shopping_page.html

Hey guys

If you want Ma Huang as a training supplement, shop for bodybuilding supplement maker Twinlabs....They make a capsule form of ginseng/ma huang combo for sale....The product is known as...

Dear Ben Gash
I am most interested in the Miao Dao form of the Baji style. Could you provide me with some information or leads....Thanks!!


To Kaga:

For the ancestral prototype of the...

Hi guys

For those of you who have never come across my website on Chinese swords, I cordially invite all you guys out there to hop on to:


http://thomaschen.freewebspace.com


For all ye...

Crimson Phoenix

Wow !!! I am really impressed by your understanding of General Yue Fei of the Northern Song Dynasty and General Qi Jiguang of the Ming Dynasty, as I was just doing some research on...

Cipher

The best readable layman edition of Sun Tzu, in my personal opinion, is the Oxford University Press version. This translation is not perfect, but you could read it in conjunction with the...

Ford Perfect

To be honest and unbiased, I am not taking the Chinese swordsmith's word for it. As for Japanese swords during the Mongol invasions, there are a number of Japanese swords of that...

Ford Perfect
What I was saying in my article was that the one historical way which the Chinese blades and the Japanese blades had been tested against each other was through war, with massed armored...

Hi Crimson and the rest of the gang

This is just my humble opinion in reply to Crimson Phoenix's comments below, I would like to highlight that the Chinese civilisation's attributes of power and...

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An acquaintence of mine, Mr Chris Toepker (he is a hung gar exponent), had posted an English translation of a Chinese article titled as such on his website several months back. It is pretty well...

Hi guys
I have been away for a couple of months......Been busy with travelling and work.

I have just read the recent post on the Chinese swordsman versus the Japanese swordsman, which got into a...

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