Samuraischwert vs. Deutsches Langschwert - Welt der Wunder

The legendary samurai sword in a jacket must be sharp. A German idiot shows us how such things are made and whether you can really break steel with them. Now, in the world of wonders, Japan's elite samurai warriors have been leading. legendary sword for more than 1000 years weapon for battle the samurai sword the japanese call it qatar a weapon with a soul forged according to traditional traditions a blade sharper than any known material its power is distributed effortlessly to a person stefan roth one of The best players in Europe introduces us to the secrets of Japanese blacksmithing.

When this man makes a samurai sword, he does it with heart and soul. He attempted to forge the sword as if its owner's life depended on it, so to speak. Absolute precision. It takes a lot of experience and, above all, a lot of patience to make this miracle weapon. The Japanese sword has a legendary reputation throughout the world, but the truth is that the long swords of German knights are far inferior to knives. The sharp weapons of the samurai in hand-to-hand combat. Even the blacksmith Stefano does not rely too much on the sharpness of the katana, but always relies on the strength of the German swords in the fight for life and death.

Choose the German Long Sword In an experiment that has never been carried out before, a world of wonder arises as to whether the Japanese super sword is really better than the German long sword. The origins of samurai warriors date back to the 8th century. , their lives were characterized by a code of honor, bushido, the way of the warrior, sincerity, courage, respect and honor are important virtues of a samurai. In order to do them justice, a warrior must lead a life full of discipline. In times of peace, elite warriors train their martial arts constantly. The samurai begins his hard training as a child because he has to learn to defend himself and constantly with his father.

Training is always done outdoors, even in winter, to be able to do it. hardens the young samurai even more. At the age of five, the young warrior receives his first sword from him. The Hollywood film Campbell shows that using the Japanese samurai sword correctly you can win even a desperate fight. being so sharp that it can cut other blades effortlessly, but what makes the samurai sword supposedly the best sword in the world. We reveal the secret of Japanese blacksmithing Stefan Roth is a passionate blacksmith. He has worked for over 14 years using traditional blacksmithing. Japanese blacksmithing methods.

The katanas made by his hand are highly sought after weapons even in Japan. That's why he has very specific attitudes when playing the sword. I always assume that the life of one of its owners could, so to speak, depend on it. which of course is no longer absolutely necessary in today's real world and will probably never happen, but this basic attitude that the sword is not only a work of art but also functional. In any case, the device must be prepared so that he cannot. To hang it on the wall, Stefan Roth needs a piece of raw steel from Japan.

First the piece is heated in the embers of the oven. There must be a temperature. at about 1,000 degrees Celsius Stefan Roth only uses charcoal for his kiln, because his experience shows that only this type of charcoal allows for optimal production of swords. Forging a samurai sword is not only complicated but also exhausting until it is black. A blacksmith works. for about two weeks without interruption, once the raw material is available, the suggestions are to hammer it little by little, absolute precision is required, no blow should be missed, the blacksmith always puts the piece back into the fire to make it .

In the end, Hemmer threatens to flatten the disk with a special hammer. Stefan Rothen then breaks several raw steel plates. The fragments are stacked in a bundle. The blacksmith wraps the package with something soaked in water, highly resistant paper and sprinkles it with a yellow liquid made of clay, sand and water. This procedure is necessary so that oxygen does not form between the different steels. Then, when the plates are melted, the steel can be optimally welded. In the end, the red one covers the package with the so-called Reichsstraße and deposits it. The yellow liquid remains in the oven for about 30 minutes.

At around 1200 degrees Celsius, continuous hammering welds the individual metal shields. In this step, the men forge the bundle to twice its length and then threaten to return the steel and then drop it up to 15 times. to bring the steel of the samurai blade to twice its length and clamp it again, this creates several tens of thousands of layers thick, so that the steel before forging is practically the raw material, they still relatively agree that there are to do what is practical. Cleaning this steel occurs by simply squeezing out impurities. This can be compared to bread dough, which I have to knead until it is just right.

Now the blade rests for about four hours. This gives Stefan Roth his future length. The samurai sword must not only be extremely stable but also sharp at the same time. On the one hand, it requires a soft spine and, on the other, an extremely hard edge. The blacksmith must overcome this challenge by hardening the sword. It is the most difficult step in the process. First, a paste of clay and sand is spread on the leaf. A little falls on the edge of the blade so that you can then completely cut the edge in the fire. The back remains soft and flexible.

Now the sword is born, which means that now we have made it more difficult. That's why it has to be dark so that he can accurately recognize the danger of 820 degrees. I have to use the light from our camera. Tell when the correct temperature has been reached just by the color of the bright star. I have to interrupt if it is to help our film camera reach its technical limits when we are still too bright. I don't know anything at all, yeah, that's good. the temperature in the forge is now like a sauna in these minutes nothing can distract Stefan Roo's concentration one mistake and the blade would be destroyed the time has come the blade is exactly at 800 20 degrees hot in the water bath it cools in a Instantly this creates its characteristic curvature is perfect, a samurai sword is born.

Stefan Roth works the rough shape of the white and then sleeps it for up to eight days until the sword. His sharpness is feared around the world and the extremely hard cutter stays sharp longer than any other star. A samurai sword costs between 10,000 and 15,000 euros. Collectors pay up to 300,000 euros for old sheets. The finished sword is not a toy but a deadly weapon; We ask Stefan Roth: the European knights of the Middle Ages would have had a chance against the Japanese. Swordsmen, his response surprises us. If the European and Japanese gentlemen had met, it is pure speculation, then the Japanese would have had a very bad hand.

So the Europeans or the Germans would have had the Japanese at that time with their cannons, their long bows and. Of course, also with their superior weapon technology, they shot and hit the ground and defeated them later. We want to try them later, but in addition to their technology, the knights' swords also surpass the Japanese samurai swords. on how to use a katana Fighting Stefan Roth can show us why he is not only an experienced idiot but also a very good swordsman. He has been training for over 37 years. To get you in the mood, Roth and his partner show us. how to fight a japanese sword fight wooden sword fight is often used in training instead of a jack the roto allows realistic practice of samurai martial arts without seriously injuring yourself or the other person this technique is a technique which means to block and the cut is on a man with this technique he would cut the opponent's forehead and then it would open due to the pressure and the blood would rush into his eyes and he would simply not be able to see anything anymore.

The focus of Japanese fencing. For Stefan it's not about strength and endurance, but also about speed and precision. For Roth, it is important to master martial arts. A good idiot should also be able to wield a sword to some extent. This would be comparable to how he drives a car. The designer can't drive a car at all like us, who build sensible, closed cars, of course, it's exactly the same. Fighting with the katana can often end in the blink of an eye. Some of this technique is economical, so he draws his sword quickly, which he does. now shown in this technique now I practically block with the back of the sword, cut in the armpit and twist to get it.

The samurai sword is an absolutely deadly weapon, and Tarantino Scabal also impressively demonstrates this time and time again. The enemy can be defeated in seconds, but swordsman Roth also studies European weapons and fighting techniques. He obviously relies on a German sword in the fight for life and even death, he would always choose the German long sword, unlike the Japanese katana. , the German long sword is a little longer and has two sides of sharp blade, so with the long sword it is possible to perform heavy techniques. This is not possible with a samurai sword that Stephan Roth and his fighting partner Colin Rich show us.

With this technique we enter the narrow scale and I put my hand in the blade, which can be done very well with European gravel because it is not very sharp in this area and I put a TV Jahn and something for the opponent, the German. The long sword also has a cross bar above the handle, the so-called stop bar. It can be used in various ways in combat. It can hit the face on a narrow scale, it can squeeze the larynx, and it can tear. , as I said, you can use it as a hammer head during that samurai sword that is admired around the world for its capabilities, German and many other European Hilton swords are precise, crude and heavy.

Stefan Roth is convinced that the art of the European game is underrated; Archaeological finds show that European swords were of excellent quality from very early on. So there are first century Roman finds of bloody gladius swords, which was the normal short sword of the legionary and these swords were made in hundreds of thousands and there are some examples that are of very good quality even though they are produced in mass and the Japanese just started in the Middle Ages, basically producing good steel. Now we want to know how the German sword actually compares to the first Japanese katana.

In the test, the sharpness of swords, how well do life-threatening weapons cut in combat? The test subject is bamboo mats as thick as human thighs. The cutting test begins with the samurai sword. The original of this weapon comes from the. XV century. The weight of the sword is 1100 grams. Its length is 105 cm. It is held with both hands. Its blade is sharp, so it only has one sharp side for such a cutting test. The sword wielder has to master his weapon. You can perfectly see Stefan Roth's concentration. If it fails, it can cause life-threatening cuts. The cut shows that the samurai's sword is very sharp.

The katana slides like butter. sword How sharp can the original 15th century German long sword be? It weighs 300 grams more and is 15 centimeters longer than the katana. However, its blade is double-edged. Roth concentrates on the test the long sword the result also the long sword cuts bamboo with ease has an edge as deadly as the qatar as we know it today European swords were perfectly forged weapons from very early due to constant wars and exchange of peoples but there has always been the prejudice that European knights with their swords and their fighting techniques were inferior to the Japanese, so in Japan martial arts and sword forging have survived the centuries and in Europe This tradition has simply been lost and this has given rise to this cliché: the European swords and of course the knights were very crude and therefore very imprecise and could not handle them properly, but you can see in these old fencing books that are still available in many libraries and that in Europe there was a highly developed art of fencing.

It was only lost due to the fact that there was a weapons revolution here, which means that weapons technology continued to develop and Japan only in the 19th century. At Cindy's entry into the industrial era, the German long sword should not be at all inferior to the Japanese blade. That's why now we want to check the accuracy of both weapons. The samurai sword is not only characterized by its special edge, but also by its sharpness. At the same time, you must make extremely precise and fast cuts. To make such rapid movements of the sword visible, we used in this test a high-speed camera that records 2,000 images per second, 80 times more than a normal Stefan Roth television camera.

In this test he is supposed to cut a tomato in half. The blade is small, smooth and light. Therefore, there is hardly any resistance, the katana here also lives up to its reputation. These images speak for themselves. Scalpel-like sharpness and blade precision. AsWill this test with the German long sword work? The surprising result is that the German long sword also has surgically precise cuts. However, there is one extreme area in which the samurai sword is considered. unique, its excellent card edge, can even distribute steel. We showed Stefan Roth an excerpt from a Japanese TV show in which a swordsman cuts a metal pipe with a samurai sword.

The blacksmith is not very impressed with what he has shown. so no need to rush with random objects that you also use in everyday life. I can do the same with us. Vehicles Stefan Roth finds a metal pipe in his workshop that has the same diameter as the one in the video. You don't necessarily need a samurai sword to cut this pipe, so there is no great magic or anything else behind this, so you can do it with any object, just like you can do it with a blade, which must meet certain criteria . More easily there would be cutting angles and a certain degree of hardness, but what about the myth that is repeatedly confirmed internally in the test of skill that a samurai sword can separate a blade as hard as steel?

Is it really possible that we want to take the test? The Japanese Qatar has a According to legend, cutting the blade of the sword is easy, but the experiment is extremely dangerous. Pieces of metal could fly from the blades and injure Stefan Roth. Therefore, during this test he wears special protective clothing. Sparks fly, but the held sword remains intact. It only has one defect, the samurai sword, on the other hand, is extremely bent and shows a notch on the blade. Apparently no one has picked it up before. is saying. How does the German longsword perform in this test?

Can this blade break a sword? The German long sword splits the other blade and it turns out that the real Stefan Roth super sword feels confirmed: the long sword only shows a small notch. I wasn't expecting anything different, so that's exactly what you didn't think about. If you can see the sword very well now, you could continue fighting immediately. Of course, it was no longer possible to use the Japanese sword. Obviously he is a legend. that the samurai sword can cut a narrow area. In contrast, the soft-bladed back of the samurai sword allows it to bend quickly in fight and its hard edge also shows nicks after dueling.

In this historical representation, Schwertdt expert Stefan Roth. He knows other reasons why Japanese blacksmiths were not necessarily better than European ones. In Europe, about 1000 years ago, people began playing swords of better quality than in Japan and there are indications that the Japanese were definitely of the European quality that was known. At the end of the 16th century the Japanese also used European steel and they did so preferentially because the quality was simply better, they had their own. Even today, the Japanese and Europeans are silent about their swords according to ancient traditions, the Japanese samurai. The sword is certainly a masterpiece, but not necessarily better than a German sword.

Both cultures have honed their blacksmithing skills over the centuries to create a very special weapon. To this day we can only admire the craftsmanship of the old masters.