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I'm sorry to hear that. Philippe had done business with me, and realizing now that he was younger than I am, I could not help to feel that that was an age too young. My prayers are with him, his...

Jonathan, you may not know Chinese martial arts. And I'm just going to add 1 thing here before I totally shut up, because I'm sick of people judging from such a closed mind that they don't know...

Originally, I didn't want to write something to defend myself or explain anything. I'm the kind of person to let the fact speaks for itself. I'm not someone who's heavy into putting up styles name...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mys5Z0EJD-s
A more clear version of the single handed leg cut, including following through action.

Second video, 03:04, is exactly how I deal with a missed cut when my opponent lunge back and missed my blade barely.

Thanks, Luke A. Indeed it is.

Here are a couple new videos of me practicing with students to prepare them for the upcoming tournament. In the videos, I employed mostly the "small moves" and "leg...

Hmm... that's why in the first post, I mentioned that this is a move I hit my opponent a lot in my sparring. In fact it hit so many times that I intended to test it with the sharp sword.

The solo...

I've wished to test cut on those ballistic gel dummies too to see how well I do compare to those "experts".... I've even emailed the props maker that made their dummies to get a possible price quote...

Thanks for everybody's kind words. :D

Every step can be adjusted in the direction, except the last move, which can be adjusted also but not 180 degree back. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrck8D17l38

Practicing solo wil drills in the padded sparring armor, showing that it does not hinder my movements any bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cEAPjesoOg
Single handed cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vTjaKdVoI

The leg cutting move I applied a lot during sparring was put to test with real sword.

It was typhoon when I tried this move out. May not look very different from my past cuts for most but the keenest observer. The difference lies in the inner mechanism on how the cut was launched,...

Those from Sung dynasty were quite broad.

It's a special-made Chinease Chang Dao (long single edged sword).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1w37RcCYxE
I test cut with Deva slayer, using left handed cuts, trying to do with minimal actions. Not all were successful but the successful one were shown here.
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These photos illustrated the damages of the 2 tatami-sharp swords (a katana and a wakizashi) after participating in cutting pork arms.

http://www.rsw.com.hk/pork-damage-1.jpg...

Sorry to Glen and Stephen, I was not very clear on the first post and caused such troubles. The post was made in a rush to share the videos and was not clear in disclosing the details. I apologize. ...

Just as a compare. The same sword that didn't do too good on tatami due to the relatively stout edge, turned 2 free hanging pork arms into 4 pieces with 1 cut done with the same technique I applied...

http://www.hksword.com

Their place is open for rental practice.

It's a Tinker made 5160H marquench sword with 58 to 60 HRC edge and 48 HRC spine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMuIpom_H9c&feature=share
My sword cut 2 pork arms with a single cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7i5JmLDZw8&feature=share
Taku test cut with his battle-sharp...

Not every martial arts style is the Japanese tatami-cutting style that emphasis on minimum power output. Style like Chinese Dadao are of totally another thing.

We don't stop our blade like those...

Here is the blade of Deva Slayer. Note the appleseed edge by the distortion of light reflection.
http://www.rsw.com.hk/realswords/deva-slayer/blade.jpg

And here is the blade of the miao dao....