Cold Steel Training Dagger Polypropylene Handle with Blunt

As always, cold steel products are very reliable and polypropylene is indestructible unless you do something very stupid. I bought 2 of these bad boys to long sword fence with a friend. We are both reasonably in shape/strong 19 year old males, and we go full speed/strength. Polypropylene is honestly indestructible. It has been over a year and they are still in great shape. They are less wieldy than a live blade for sure, the point of balance makes them top heavy, but i feel this makes them very appropriate for beginners, as they are a little more clumsy in the hand, allowing more time for the opponent to react. I will note that when fencing with these blades, you should either wear protective gear, (old snowmobile helmets and hockey gloves) or avoid actually hitting your opponents, else you will both end up covered in welts. Fingers could definitely get broken. Polypropylene is quite dense and unforgiving. true swordsmanship is like a game of chess, the goal is to maneuver your opponent into checkmate (or exhaust them). For the price these are unmatched, the best European style practice blades for actual use. they would be very easy to modify with a belt sander if the point of balance is unacceptable. Personally I have come to enjoy their top heavy nature. On Guard!

I bought this in order to sword fight with my friend. He bought a different training sword from Amazon. I actually like his better, the hilt is more comfortable. But, that's because I hold this sword with two hands when it's meant to be held one-handed. It's a pretty heavy training sword, but that's just my opinion, I have never held any other training sword so I wouldn't know the difference. I consider myself to be a pretty strong 18 year old, and I use two hands, but I am still able to hold and swing it one-handed. I just only use two hands because I swing hard when I fight with my buddy, and I'd swing too slow and wobbly if I used only one hand. It is very durable, it just might get scratched up some. I ordered a sewcond one of this a week or so after I got the first one because the first one broke, But only because my friend swung it as hard as he could downward on a thick tree trunk that had fallen over (thick enough to walk on) to see if it could damage the tree. The sword broke in half! the sword is strong enough to cut branches off tress, just don't swing at the trunks. I love the feel of the plastic and the black color is cool. The design is pretty minimal, which is fine with me, but doesn't capture my attention. I;m glad I got this, lots of fun to play around with. It hurts when you're hit hard with it, so just because it says training, don't give to little kids. It's basically a bat.

Lot of people complaining of this not being sharp, or club like, I disagreff egg the balance is off by a bit but a bolt in the pommel should help with that, but for 31$ me and two friends had a blast with these and got great exercise. Totally worth owning. It is a bit heavy if you were small, but that usually true of longswords

I'm a multi-year practitioner of HEMA, and specifically the longsword. I dabbled in and after college, but it wasn't until this year that I began to get a bit more serious about it as an addition to my normal athletic regimen. I wanted something a bit more exciting/demanding, and invested, along with a friend and my wife, in new wooden waster swords (I have a longer, beautiful oak wooden sword, but these cost a pretty penny). After a few weeks, we'd battered the wooden wasters into splinters, and decided that it was enough fun that we ought to invest in something more durable...but not metal, yet, and not as expensive as synthetics. The Cold Steel Hand & A Half is really the only product in its price and quality range. It's a good product. I can say that unequivocally. The HAAF will get the job done, if you're into freeplay, sparring, or just training. It's a great tool, and there's an argument to be made that it's an excellent piece of athletic equipment for active weight training...but it's not a very good sword. It's far too bulky, the hilt is at least an inch too short, the pommel is poorly designed (and has no weight to it), and the entire sword's balance is off by at least four inches. These are all forgivable, if you consider that no matter how hard you batter these things against one another, they barely take a scratch. The heavy plastic material they're made of does it's job admirably. Wooden swords can be destroyed after a single, energetic session. A meta sword can be nicked, bent, cracked, or worse; Cold Steel's HAAF, however, is no worse for the wear. I'm a 6"3 male with a lifelong history of athletic endeavors, and I spar semi-regularly with another strong, athletic, 6"2 friend who spent six years in the US military. We're both fair swordsmen, he with a few years of Kendo and a few months with the longsword, me with three years' patient study of the longsword as well. We're confident enough that when we spar, we hit hard and don't pull punches. We're both what you might call "Buffalos," in that we often leverage strength over finesse. Even still, the swords stand up incredibly well to our bludgeoning. Is it the best way to spar? No. It's indelibly bad training. But at least we don't have to worry about the swords exploding, the way the wooden ones did. The HAAF has issues. Users can't deny that: the balance is off, the pommel is awful, the gasket-assembly comes loose too often at the cross guards. The blade and hilt are between three and six inches too short, if you ask me. But I still like this product, and I will continue to train with it, even after I've finally invested in a synthetic or metal blade down the line. You can't beat the reliability of that durable plastic, nor can you deny the value of a heavy waster to prepare and tone muscle for the rigor of steel. For newbies and swordsfolk on a budget, I'd recommend it readily.

I grew up on star wars and lord of the rings. I spent most of my childhood running around in my backyard swinging a stick around pretending I was holding a sword or lightsaber. Me and my siblings received and inflicted numerous light injuries on each in mock combat. As an adult, I bought a set of these to relive that childhood joy, and they do not disappoint! As a feature list for people who shared my wood combat experience (and I am comparing sticks, not professional wooden sparring swords): 1. Unlike wood, these things don't break. You don't have to hold back with these things for fear of shattering them. 2. Unlike wood, these things are HEAVY, and thats a good thing. Swinging and blocking with these things is enjoyable and actually good exercise. 3. Unlike the misshapen bits of branches we used to play with, these things look like actual swords. I cannot stop posing with it. 3. They still hurt when you get hit, making up for their slightly more flexible build with greater weight. If you are a pansy who doesn't want to get hurt, I cannot say that these will be to your taste. A great product overall, and I would definitely recommend them to anyone wanting some good old fashion sparring. I will be updating my review in a month or so to comment on overall durability.

Very solid training sword. There's certainly something to be said for training with weighted clothing/weapons-- it develops speed. And that seems to be what they had in mind when designing this. Yeah, it's slightly heavier towards the blade than a real sword should be. The idea of a TRAINING sword is not to 100% simulate a live blade. It's to be a tool to develop the skills necessary for using a blade effectively. It's the right dimensions as far as length/width, and only slightly off as far as weight, so very much a valid sparring weapon. Much more durable than competitors' synthetics as well. Practicing with this sort of trainer to the point of proficiency means that when you eventually do move to a live blade, you are instantly much more effective, as your blade is no longer working against you. I'm using it for studying I.33, but it's much easier to wield as a longsword proxy (two-handed), which does seem to be much more popular now than (one-handed)sword and buckler... I would recommend this training sword to anyone looking to get into HEMA. Just make sure to wear padded gloves if/when free sparring, broken fingers are a real possibility.

Overall I would rate it a four and a half. (I am saying this because it only goes by full stars) I have had this for about three weeks now as of now January 3rd 2016. It was a good price for it And is great for sparring. True it does not flex like a real steel sword, but ( maybe I am an optimist ) I see it being able to learn how to take more resistance from force than you would from a real sword. Yes the balance is off by about 2-3 inches. But this will make the muscles you use for swordplay stronger then they need to be which should make real sword play a piece of cake. It is virtually indistructable. So it won't break with heavy sparring like wooden swords do, so that is a nice touch to it. It weighs around the same weight of a real sword ( a tad heavy for it ). It is comfortable in hand and is easy for me to get used to. But the point can be painful but that can be fixed if you round out the point a bit. Overall it was wonderful for the price and highly recommend this product especially for begginers. Sincerely, Jordan Andrus.

Wow ! Let me start by saying that this practice sword is bigger than I thought it would be and heftier too. Definitely not a one handed weapon but hand and a half Swords aren't usually meant to be. It is very solid and lives up to the Cold Steel rep in my opinion. Immediately out of the box my son and I tested it and it easily shattered a large beef leg bone with incredible ease. If you truly intend to train with this, please be mindful of your training partners safety. And if you want to blow off some steam and break some stuff with a unique tool then this is the ticket. I purchased this to practice cuts and footwork and it is worth every penny. I would also like to recommend the Cold Steel Brooklyn Smasher, Crusher and Shorty polypropylene baseball bats. Those too are very fun and handy to have around. Have fun and be safe out there.

Premessa: in italia se vuoi praticare Scherma medievale e vuoi acquistare spade da allenamento bisogna per forza affidarsi a negozi esteri, quindi già il prodotto di per sé costa, aggiungi tasse e spedizione e dovrai spendere non poco. Prodotto: per quello che costa a me piace molto, non flette come dovrebbe e forse potresti abbattere qualche muro con questa mazza a a forma di spada però ne vale la pena. Buon prodotto.

Eine hervorragende Alternative zu den doch recht anfälligen Holzübungsschwertern, Schwerttechniken, weitgehend ohne Verletzungen, zu lernen. Trotzdem sollte man sich Gedanken über eine entsprechende Schutzausrüstung machen oder aber entsprechend vorsichtig und mit Verantwortung seinem Trainingspartner gegenüber agieren. Der Polypropylen Trainings - Anderthalbhänder wiegt zwar nicht genau soviel wie ein Original Anderthalbfacher, kommt dem aber doch wesentlich näher als ein solches Holzübungsschwert, ist dabei sehr gut ausbalanciert und federt gegnerische Schläge sehr gut ab. Er ist sehrviel robuster als es Holzübungsschwerter sind. Natürlich bleibt es nicht aus, das kleine Macken, Kratzer und Spuren durch das Üben entstehen, diese entstehen bei den Holzschwertern erheblich viel stärker, die Holzschwerter gehen oftgenung durch Splittern oder sogar durch Brechen kaputt. Aber wer will mit einem Übungsschwert schon einen Schönheitswettbewerb gewinnen. Es ist kein Schaukampfschwert und auch keine Larbwaffe sondern ein extrem robustes Übungsschwert. Wer das Gewicht in Richtung des Griffes verlagern möchte, kann den Knauf aufbohren, ein Gewinde in die Bohrung schneiden und eine entsprechende Gewindestange aus Metall ein drehen. Dies bringt außerdem das Gesamtgewicht, dem des Originals ein weiteres Stück näher. Meiner Meinung nach gibt es nichts Besseres, bevor man sich an das Training mit Metallschwertern macht. *****

Espada para entrenamiento de esgrima. Tamaño perfecto, calidad de los materiales. Dura, ligeramente pesada, pero es la mejor para entrenamiento de esgrima. Mi hijo está encantado y su profe de esgrima quedó impresionado con la espada. Le gustó muchísimo. Entrena con ella todos los días y es una espada robusta y duradera. Quizá para niños un poco pesada, pero para adolescentes y adulto está muy bien.

Tardo un poco más en llegar pero todo bien, fueron muy amables los encargados de la tienda en aclararme la situación

思ったより重くていい感じです。重心は剣の真ん中らへんにあるようです。私の身長は172cmで手のサイズも平均的だと思いますが、柄が短いとか手が痛いとかはないです。天井がそんなに高くないので、素振りをしようとすると天井を叩かないかいつも心配してます。