Cutting 4 femur sized PPR pipes cored crazy target

Lancelot challenges a crazy target with 4 femur sized PPR cored with Simon Maru, after watching a mainland China swordsman did a similar thing, to figure out some unanswered questions in his mind.

How to make cutting stand and anatomically realistic targets

PPR pipe supplies , Umbrella stand

Comparing test cutting targets

Due to some people have the wrong idea that tatami is more difficult to cut than newspapers roll + PPR pipe core simulating limbs, I had to make this video to showcase the difference.

The person in the video was a remote student of mine, with 9 months experience at the time of recording, as reporting in his learning progress. He cut 7 rolls of mats fine, but struggled with thigh target. You can see for yourself.

Cutting Target for the Lancelot's seven cuts

Skallagrim cutting realistic targets I made

Dlatrex testing forearm targets with 6 swords on a more giving cutting stand

PPR pipe cuts vs human bone cuts, from Dlatrex's report

Hood Muillican tries out the upper arm target I made

Hood Mullican cut upper arm target with LK Crossbowmen Dao, damaged it in the process. Getting stuck in the bone would very likely to damage the blade.

Thus one has to make sure one can cut through the whole thing when cutting such targets, to ensure better survivability of the sword. Horizontal cuts and free standing target cuts are also more risky, due to the nature that the target will tumble and rotate in the air, with a portion of the edge stuck in the bone.

Hood Muillican tries out the forearm target I made 2

This time Hood Mullican used his Jkoo Katana on a forearm target I made.

Hood Muillican tries out the Upper Arm target I made

Hood Mullican who cut these targets reported: I'd give my cutting a 4 and the target a 9 (I deducted some because my stand was just too short for what I wanted to do, lol). I've never cut a hard target before, so this is very much feeling things out. When the cut goes wrong, it feels really bad. When it's a good cut, it almost doesn't feel like anything. It's interesting that even the "bad" cuts still went to the bone simulant - but had very different feedback from those that went clean through.

Hood Muillican cut forearm target with hanwei cutting jian

Part 1 of the 4 videos in the playing list. Shows you how big a difference there is between my design and some other swords.

Dlatrex experience different swords' wound on my kind of simulated limb target.

From Dlatrex himself about the simulated limb target:
"So, with a little more experience against his targets, and PPR in particular a few things to note.

1. The types of target he's working with absolutely require a very very keen edge. Many historical swords would not do well at this particular test, although some of course did have edges this fine and sharp, but by no means did all.

2. Speed is also crucial for this target, as momentum alone will not allow it to transit through all of the different types of ductile media. This is why even a 'sharp' falchion fails to make it through, as it is relatively short and slow (compared to a long jian or sabre blade).

3. Because of the sharpness required the geometry of each sword will factor into how risky this testing is: a lot of swords achieve such sharpness by being very very fine at the cutting edge, but of course this makes the edges fragile (remember the Shuang Niu Wei Dao), the right combination of 'meat' behind the tip and proper sharpening is what is going to allow folks to succeed if they want to use this type of target.

4. Compared to most other makers, LK Chen swords are particularly well suited for this. Of course there are many different types of swords, so some will cut better, and some will be more delicate, but in general the relative 'nimbleness' allowing LKChen swords to accelerate quickly, along with the very very sharp edges allow them to cut these targets nicely. Outside of Japanese style swords (which are at higher risk of damage) I think many people will struggle to find swords that will easily go through Lancelot style targets, until they get very expensive swords, or ones that are specialized for this type of task."

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I would like to add that I agree with Dlatrex's comment here. My kind of targets are very demanding and differentiate "good" swords from "normal" swords. Historically speaking, many swords were unable to cut through fabric protected limbs, saved the very good ones. So this is an accurate compare.

Also, Dlatrex's video of historical gunto usage record also noted that many gunto were damaged in cutting living bone, which echoed to his comment about my kind of target would pose higher risk of damage to Japanese style swords.

This is showing that Lancelot-Sharp and my designs are extremely good in historical scale. Also why I emphasize on "high speed zone" in my system.

Swordsage review of LK Long Quan jian, cutting my kind of targets

Skallagrim trying out a sword he designed on my target

Skallagrim trying out an anime sword on my target

Ibrahim of Mizongluohan school cutting water bottles, forearm and upper arm targets

with an assortment of LK Chen swords.

John Merrill's review of Supreme Cutter

He also talks about the cutting targets I sent him.

Sammy and Alan cutting day

LK Crossbowmen Dao, Niu Wei Dao, survival knife and Lancelot Sword Supreme Cutter Classic Lancelot-Sharp™ were used in the cutting against forearm, upper arm and thigh targets.

John Merrill comparing his tourney winning sword and German Battle Sword Lancelot-Sharp™

John Merrill, the second place winner of 2023 Combat Con cutting tournament, find the realistic upper arm targets the most resisting target he has ever cut.