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My friend Tom Biliter bought a camera capable of doing 300 fps and 600 fps and shot a test cutting video for me. The newspapers roll was 5" thick.

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Cutting a 6 inches diameter soaked newspapers roll horizontally with my sword Deva slayer.
I attempted 2 cuts and both were successful! You may notice that even a small portion of it had enough momentum to knock ...

My sparring today, the first time after 7 months of solo training.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luEPyBX2Ccg
Against Yip part 1 (normal mode)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhhARB_mlWs
Against Yip part 2 (normal mode)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxcWp9YhUZc
Against Lung (intensive mode where ...

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Solo drills and test cutting with successive cuts.

I know Jean-Luc is an airline pilot, but wow, the man really gets around. We've welcomed him here in Houston a few times but haven't seen him in a long time, nice to see he's still practicing. Nice consistent form.

Yes. He has visited us several times already and his practices progress really ...

very nice. Now I have a question. Did you find it awkward initially when you first started cutting that way? Mechanically it looks like it would take some getting used to.

It takes a lot of practice to rewrite my body-program.

My French friend Jean-Luc Ancelin visited Hong Kong today and after the sparring sessions, I prepared him 3 rolls of newspapers to test cut with. I lent him the Windlass 15th Century longsword and he worked through 1", 2" and 2.5" newspapers rolls beautifully.

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This is the video of my latest test cut on newspapers roll with Deva Slayer, including a roll with 4.5" diameter. Enjoy!

Record breaking 4.75" diameter newspapers roll cut! I did it at night so no video taken. I took photos afterwards.

It's hard to keep good edge alignment when you swing like that.

The magazine was of higher density roll, more difficult to cut than normal newspapers roll. And the broomstick.... well.. nevermind.

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My tries on horizontal cuts. The 3 cuts were successful but it was very challenging.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvtTdiU4tdo
I was trying some other methods to cut the newspapers rolls, and at the end try to cut a 3" diameter with wooden dowel. Not successful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBper8dAnzs
My student cut a 3" diameter roll with windlass 15th century longsword.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AfDaVPQLlg
Test cut on unfixed 2.75" diameter wet newspapers roll and PVC shafted 3" diameter newspapers roll.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWK20k8rfGQ
My student test cut with windlass 15th century longsword on unfixed 1.75" diameter newspapers roll.

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but by having the pipe in it simulates a human limb better. I guess it depends on what you're going for. Still cool though

It is easy to add the shaft for the next test cut. I still have some here. With the shaft on I can go for an even bigger roll.

interesting way of doing it, but it obviously worked better. One thing though. Looking at hose rolls it seems like there was no pipe in this batch. Is that correct? Just asking. A lot better though.

No shaft this time because I wanted it more challenging. The shaft fixed the roll in place and ...