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Old 02-15-2005, 09:30 PM   #12
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Re: Purchasing a Bokken.

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Thomas Dixon wrote:
I have no idea what you're talking about. The one I got, cost $8.49, $9.00 total for the Tsuba with it. It's a decently heavy bokken, no warps, and is made out of nice Red Oak. This thing, I very much doubt, would snap like a toothpick. You can also get them from places like Century martial arts.
Every red oak bokken that has come into our dojo for sword work has been broken with the exception of 1. And most of them were by me. We've only had 1 white oak bokken break. Which was also done by me. (i broke them with my own white oak bokken.) Every red oak bokken i've owned has brokken (three total) within the first four months of work. In one instance, the body snapped into a really sharp point and flew off nearly hitting someone.

Our sword classes do some pretty intense parry / blocking drills. I don't really know what kind of aikiken stuff you do. Maybe your red oak is just fine. But i usually end up getting couple hundred pretty hard impacts on mine per week.

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