Quote Originally Posted by snoopy13a View Post
Not for nothing, but is any type of swordfighting, realistic or not, useful in real life?
As Kelb said, it can reasonably translate to real life if you find an appropriately sized stick. Fencing doesn't have that as much as kendo, since in kendo you train with a bamboo sword, which is balanced very differently from fencing swords and much closer to a random stick (weight will differ still though). Might be why they teach jodo a lot at the same dojos as kendo around here.

Eskrima's prolly good as well, but that isn't sword-only.

What kind of swordfighting is most useful in real life, actually?


Where I'm from, I hear you're not allowed to carry even replica swords. You need to keep them in a box or some other form of casing.