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Old 09-03-2009, 11:49 AM   #4
Keith Larman
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Re: Which iaito would you choose?

None of those are any good as training tools for iai. To be quite blunt an appropriate training tool will likely cost significantly more as the issue is the quality of mounting, wrap, balance and dynamics. Those are cheap, poorly made swords that are not even good approximations of the real thing.

Sorry, that is the honest answer. Sometimes there is a baseline of quality required for something to be appropriate. The listed swords do not even approach that baseline in my experience.

FWIW

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