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It isn't perfectly clear it was a live blade but it sure sounds that way. Sheesh!
Well I'd have to think one would have to jab pretty dang hard with a bokken, so it'd have to be a real one.
Eh, you might be surprised what a metal "training" blade like an iaito can do. Blades that are "dull" all too often come to points that aren't.
So this is to say they were screwing around with a real katana and one of them got hurt? Darwinism at it's finest.
(emphasis mine)attendants found a man who had been accidentally stabbed while he and a friend were playing with the sword.
(emphasis mine)
A most important part of weapon training from the very first time a person picks up a practice weapon: Every Knife Is Sharp, Every Gun Is Loaded.
Wooden trainers? Sharp. Red rubber guns? Loaded.
But that's one of those basic training elements that is lost on those who want to advance quickly. You know - a useless exercise.![]()
You are correct. It is plausible.Quote:
attendants found a man who had been accidentally stabbed while he and a friend were playing with the sword.
To play the devil's advocate: While the writer of the article used the words "playing with the sword," there is a chance that the writer is injecting his/her bias (and they all do) with that wording. As many have already pointed out, even a practice sword can produce a puncture wound. It is conceivable that the two parties were legitamately training and an accident happended.
More info on the incident:
From Thestar.com
A misguided early-morning swing of a samurai sword sent a Toronto man to hospital with a punctured lung.
Toronto EMS was called to a martial arts dojo on Queen St. E., east of Woodbine Ave., around 1:45 a.m. yesterday after receiving reports of a man covered in blood, said Toronto police Staff Sgt. Paul Scudds at 55 Division. When crews arrived, they found a man who had been stabbed while he and his friend played with a samurai sword. The victim's lung was punctured during the swordplay
Man stabbed in chest during drunken martial arts sparring
A Toronto man has been charged with obstructing police after apparently stabbing a friend during a drunken sparring match at a martial arts studio early Sunday morning.
Toronto police received a 911 call just before 2 a.m. Sunday to a studio on Queen Street East. When they arrived, a man was suffering from a collapsed lung and a 43-year old male was uncooperative with police, according to Staff Sgt. David Lowe. "The two were sparring back and forth and one was accidentally stabbed in the chest," said Sgt. Lowe. "Alcohol was involved."
Canwest News Service
So this is to say they were screwing around with a real katana and one of them got hurt? Darwinism at it's finest.