I've been working on teaching myself Fiore longsword techniques from Guy Windsor's books, and this sword is an excellent, rugged training weapon. The balance point is perfect, and the grip is comfortable and non-slipping both in bare hands and with gloves. I've compared this against the similar Cold Steel Synthetic bastard sword and the Xtreme Synthetic Sparring Longsword is miles above its competitor -- Cold Steel's sword has a very fat, rigid blade, an ugly cross guard, poor blade balance and sharp ridges (that I had to sand down) around the pommel. The Xtreme Synthetic sparring sword has none of these, and is completely modular, so if you do somehow break something, you can just get a replacement piece.
From:
Andrew
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Date:
2/19/2015 9:49 PM
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