Katana sword.wav

should consider doing a few versions of this, with some form of liquid on the blade, would help make making some flicks of the katana to create, a bit of blood splattering, before the inevitable re-sheathing of the blade. Would probably go along way, in the free sounds community.

@superfreq

Year old thread and so on, but anyways:

Yes, Katanas are for instance swung that fast during Tamishigiri (cut test). Also, people will do awesome martial arts show moves with them. That said, Katanas are traditional Samurai battle swords used in real-life combat, which luckily only exists on television nowadays. I highly doubt anyone ever fences with a Katana, as it basically consists of a meter long razor blade. For sparring purposes, wooden Bokken are used. Unsharpened Katanas are called Iaitos, but even those would probably not be used for sparring, as the sharp tip might inflict lethal injuries.

awesome, thank you

I don’t know about fencing. Posting the sound on here was an afterthought, there was a lot of artifact noise. Thanks for the comments and will do better next time.

Holy shit, awesome! Thanks so much for sharing this!
You can only get so far with dowels, bamboo, and belts... :-)
Nice editing job on the first set, but the second set unfortunately had allot of artifacts, though like a third of the swings are still easily salvageable at least.
I can understand removing the air conditioner sound, but if you were trying to get rid of the handling noise, than I wouldn't, as they can be useful too, and sound far more natural as extra bits in the sound than compression artifacts do.

Just curious if you know, would you really swing the sword that fast or far while fencing?

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