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These Wing Chun Butterfly Swords have a blade in the "Chopper" or "Bellied Chopper" style.
The Bellied Chopper is mainly used for hacking and slashing techniques.
It makes the chops very powerful and a real weapon can can cleave
through bone. Choppers sacrifice the ability to stab as effectively. Our
chopper resulted from our careful study of the best features of the
blades on Ip Man's actual swords and other famous Sifus, added to
world-class experience.
We will typically refer to the "Bellied Chopper" as simply the "Chopper"
style, although technically the 2 are different. Many swords you see
today have a fat rectangular blade with no belly. (The belly is the part
that widens out near the tip). We have not found any historical blades
that are made like this, and believe it is most likely a modern
invention used to make cheap swords. You typically see these swords
used in Southern Shaolin styles of KungFu; but we mention them here
because many Wing Chun people end up with these swords due to their
availability. Very few people actually prefer or request them, and for
this reason when we typically refer to the "Choppers" we are thinking of
only the Wing Chun version - the bellied chopper.
The Flagship Line is our full tang weapon-grade line of swords. The best
steels and the best construction methods are used. The balance, fit and
finish are extraordinary. They sport ergonomic and angled handles; a
hot-drop-forged D-Guards in ASAI 304 stainless steel; a quillon designed
for flipping and trapping. The blades have distal and profile tapers
(not a flat piece of steel) and sport either an true lenticular or wide
hollow grind. The swords have full handles, not half handles.
After the release of our Integral swords we spent 6 additional months
gathering feedback from top over 30 sifus and improving the design.
These swords are the result of that work. They are lighter, quicker,
stronger, feel better, and trap better than the Integral swords, which
were already the best swords on the market. The balance on these swords
is second-to-none. In addition the blade
shapes have been modified to better suit multiple lineages
requirements.
The "Tough-As-Hell" Edition is a hard-core training and combat sword and
is the 3rd series of our Flagship line of blades. The "Tough-As-Hell"
Edition uses a hand-hammered combat-ready carbon spring steel that is
both flexible (so the blades will not snap) and strong. When testing
edge-vs-edge striking on other steels our 9260 hammered combat steel
performed the best. That said: We NEVER recommend any sword for weapon
vs weapon training because ALL weapons fail at some point and can cause
massive injury. While these are capable blades, NEVER go steel on steel
with your swords. No matter what you are hitting - these swords are the
toughest of any other production butterfly sword we have found on the
open market, and the toughest we have produced to date (2013).
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