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LARP Weapons
LARP maces, axes, staves, hammers, daggers and other weapons for LARP knights, paladins, warriors, rogues and wizards.

LARP Armor
LARP shields and armor for LARP battles.

LARP Swords
LARP swords for various classes. LARP versions of movie swords like Exalibur, swords from Assassins Creed or 300 movie.

What is it LARP
A live action role-playing game (LARP) is a form of role-playing game where the participants physically act out their characters’ actions. LARP weapons are created for safe combat or training.

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Russian Shashka is a special sabre, razor sharp, single-edged, single-handed, and guardless sword worn by Cossacks and Imperial army of Russia. In appearance, the shashka was midway between a full sabre and a straight sword. It had a slightly curved blade, and could be effective for both slashing and thrusting. The blade was either hollowed or fullered. There was no guard, but a large, curved pommel. The hilt was frequently highly decorated. It was carried in a wooden scabbard that enclosed part of the hilt. It was worn with the cutting edge to the rear, opposite to the sabre.

Russian Kuban cossacks armed by shashkas

Russian cossacks armed by shashka (Kuban cossack regiment, end of 19th century)

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History of Russian shashka
The shashka originated among the mountain tribes of the Caucasus in the 12th or 13th century. Later it was used by most of the Russian and Ukrainian Cossacks. So there are two styles of shashka: the Caucasian shashka and the Cossack shashka.

It was a typically Adyghean (Circassian) form of sabre, longer than the Cossack type, in fact the word shashka came from the Adyghe word Adyghe:  “Shashkwa” means “long knife”. It gradually replaced the sabre in all cavalry units except hussars during the 19th century. Russian troops, having encountered it during their conquest of the Caucasus, preferred it to their issue sabres. It was adopted first by the Russian Caucasian Corps in the 1830s. In 1882, when the cavalry was reorganized, the regular dragoons were armed with the shashka. Cossacks had received this type of sword earlier. Several forms of shashka were carried by Soviet cavalry into the Second World War.

Russian shashka

Russian Shashka features:

Missing guard-shashka is hidden in scabbard.
Shaska has a very sharp, double or triple fullered blade.
The blade of Shaska is wider than blade of a common European sabre.
Shashkas were often decorated by silver, gold or a precious gems.

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Wolfhound Russian fantasy movie

Latest fantasy movies are mostly 3D action pieces without any story. If you looking for something else, a little exotic fantasy movie this can be an answer for you.

Volkodav is a little different. You can get mix of well made fights, beautiful Russian nanture and exotic Slavic mythology not too common in fantsy movies.

Afterall the movie is a mixture of Conan and Lord of the Rings.

I really enjoyed the bat – companion of the Wolfhound.

Wolfhound story
A medieval village is destroyed by evil group of raiders. It seems the local blacksmith and his family were the target. A magical sword was the reason.
A young boy, son of blacksmith is the only survivor. He has to seek his revenge and he must prevent Morana goddess release into world of mortals. Of course we got a nice Russian babe in distress .

Wolfhound cast: Aleksandr Bukharov as Wolfhound, Oksana Akinshina as Princess
Director: Nikolai Lebedev

Volkodav trailer

Who is Morana?
Morana (Marzanna, Marzana, Mora, Morena)
Morana is a slavic goddess of death, evil and sorcery. She was beautiful but cold hearted babe.
Puppet of Morana is even these days thrown into rivers during spring as a symbol of end of winter.

Morana goddess

Here is more info about Slavic mythology and about Slavic pantheon

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Museum Replicas (Atlanta Cutlery) offers new Conan replicas from original movies.

Conan Atlantean sword

Conan Atlantean sword

Functional sword of Conan the Barbarian played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Conan Father’s sword

Conan fathers sword

Functional sword of Conan’s father played by William Smith.

Both Conan swords are authentic replicas from original movies with Arnie.

Functional sword of Valeria will be available soon.

All Conan swords and Conan movie replicas.

Isabel series 2011

Isabel cast
Michelle Jenner as Isabella
Rodolfo Sancho as Ferdinand II of Aragon
Pablo Derqui as King Henry IV of Castile
Other cast:
Daniel Albaladejo
Ernesto Arias
Sergio Peris-Mencheta
William Miller
Bárbara Lennie
Pedro Casablanc

Directed by: Jordi Frades

Isabella I of Castile

Catholic Kings
Isabella I of Castile and Leon and Ferdinand II of Aragon were rulers of Spain who completed unification of Spanish kingdom.
Isabella made great reforms in her kingdom of Castile and did many of them without the assistance of her husband.
She and King Ferdinand are widely renowned for having financed Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage that led to the opening of the “New World”.
Famous Charles V (Holy ROman Emperor) was grand son of Isabelle and Ferdinand and he completed the tasks of his famous grandmother. Catherine, first wife of Henry VIII of England (Tudors). was an another famous grand daughter of the catholic kings.

Sword of Catholic Kings

Sword of catholic kings

Sword of Columbus

Sword of Columbus

Sword of Charles V

Sword of Charles V

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He who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
German proverb

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Terry Pratchett

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry Vaughan

Give me a sword fight any day.
Joseph Fiennes

One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Charles de Gaulle

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Julia Ward Howe

Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight.
Tim Roth

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
Confucius

A good sword is the one left in its scabbard.
Japanese proverb

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
John Oldham

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. Michael Straczynski

I’ve done movies with a sword before. But I haven’t really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
Orlando Bloom

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country’s cause.
Homer

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Aeschylus

Never give a sword to a fool or power to an unjust man.
Greek Proverb

In America it’s live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
Vince McMahon

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander Hamilton

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
Takeshi Kitano

The sword – the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.
John Lothrop Motley

To this wonderful page in our country’s history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.
Giuseppe Garibaldi

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Lucy Liu

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you
Julius Caesar

When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.
English Proverb

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Richard Steele

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
Tolkien

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels
George Bush

Our swords shall play the orators for us.
Christopher Marlowe

By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
Bible

They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
Bible

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
John Webster

All books are either dreams or swords.
Amy Lowell

The sword keeps the peace of the land.
Danish Proverb

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War Horse story
War Horse, is an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man’s Land.

The First World War is experienced through the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionate friendship and high adventure. War Horse is one of the great stories of friendship and war— a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successful international theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It now comes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in film history.

The movie is directed by Steven Spielberg.

War Horse Release date: December 28, 2011.

War Horse trailer

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The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Georges Clemenceau

I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto Von Bismark

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William Tecumseh Sherman

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Holly Near

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
George Soros

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy

A great war leaves the country with three armies – an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
German Proverb

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end.
George S. Patton

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
Ferdinand Foch

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
George Santayana

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
Hideki Tojo

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.
Louis Simpson

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men.  The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.
David Lloyd George

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters.
Edward Gibbon

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire, War

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Vaclav Havel

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
Dan Lipinski

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
Bruce Jackson

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don’t want to see any more of that.
F. Murray Abraham

The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.
Barbara Amiel

We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
John Perkins

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War.  He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.  He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out… and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel…. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for “the universal brotherhood of man” – with his mouth.
Mark Twain

War.  The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred.  Completely uncontrollable.
Daniel Ha

I would like it if men had to partake in the same hormonal cycles to which we’re subjected monthly.  Maybe that’s why men declare war – because they have a need to bleed on a regular basis.
Brett Butler

War is not an adventure.  It is a disease.  It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you shoot one person you are a murderer.  If you kill a couple persons you are a gangster.  If you are a crazy statesman and send millions to their deaths you are a hero.
Unknown

A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil.
William Hooke

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1911 movie

1911, also known as Xinhai Revolution and The 1911 Revolution, is a 2011 Chinese historical drama film.

The film is a tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution. It is also Jackie Chan’s 100th film in his career.

Besides starring in it, Chan is also the executive producer and director of the film. Co-stars include Chan’s son Jaycee Chan, Li Bingbing, Winston Chao, Joan Chen.

1911 Movie Trailer

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