Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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#sword #longsword #cutting

In this four-part video series, I put my four best competition cutting longswords against each other, to see which I should use at the upcoming Combat Con open cutting tournament.

Part two consists of semaphores, aka reactive cutting.

The swords featured in this series are:
Sterling Armory XVIIIc
ATrim XIIa.19
ATrim XVIIIb.19
Albion Principe

Part One - youtu.be/aeExF4Clsno

Sword measurements photo gallery: photos.app.goo.gl/8EDa3rQFLjwsjUre7

00:00 Intro
03:26 ATrim XVIIIb.19
04:19 Sterling Armory XVIIIc
04:48 Albion Principe
05:38 ATrim XIIa.19
06:19 Initial thoughts
08:24 Final thoughts

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