{"id":34366,"date":"2025-09-21T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34366"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T02:27:17","slug":"theyre-as-good-with-swords-as-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/21\/theyre-as-good-with-swords-as-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re As Good With Swords As Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/homeowner-samurai-sword-fight-off-armed-robber-pennsylvania\/story?id=125670165\" target=\"_new\">Pennsylvania man stabbed with samurai sword during home invasion attempt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stabbed?  With a katana?  That&#8217;s not how they work!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Pennsylvania robbery suspect was hospitalized after being stabbed with a samurai sword during a home invasion Tuesday morning, authorities said in press release.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The roommate defended himself. He had the samurai sword and took a swipe at the suspect,&#8221; Det. Josh Samuels told WPVI, referring to the male victim. &#8220;It was a pretty chaotic scene this morning, I would say for sure.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Slashing is not stabbing, guys.  Someone with a katana is most likely to take a swing, using strikes one through six.  Although seven is a poke, it is not emphasized in samurai sword fighting which is designed to slash through samurai armor.<\/p>\n<p>Stabbing is more rapier-style fencing.  Which, as I have mentioned, I&#8217;m better at since I&#8217;ve trained in fencing more than sword fighting.  And I won&#8217;t go on about how it lends itself to spearing, although strikes one through seven also apply to fighting with sticks.  And, jeez, I have not trained with the staff in a long time.  Oh!  But I haven&#8217;t been to a martial arts class in weeks.  I better rectify that soon.  Because one day it will be the last time I do, and I&#8217;m not ready for that yet.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/416480.php\" target=\"_new\">Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Thread<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania man stabbed with samurai sword during home invasion attempt Stabbed? With a katana? That&#8217;s not how they work! A Pennsylvania robbery suspect was hospitalized after being stabbed with a samurai sword during a home invasion Tuesday morning, authorities said in press release. * * * * &#8220;The roommate defended himself. He had the samurai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34367,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34366\/revisions\/34367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}