Red Dragon Basket Hilt Sparring Sword PR9032

The Rawlings PR9032 Basket Hilt Sparring Sword, expertly crafted for historical fencing and stage combat, offers a durable and balanced training tool. This sword features a robust, blunted steel blade designed for safe sparring, coupled with an intricately designed basket hilt providing ample hand protection. The comfortable grip ensures secure handling, allowing practitioners to hone their skills and techniques with confidence. Perfect for serious students and performers alike, the PR9032 is a worthwhile addition to any swordsman's collection. 41" overall. 34" silver blade. Black guard and basket hilt pommel. Brown handle. Developed in conjunction with Dave Rawlings, founder of the London Longsword Academy and the HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) community. Crafted with special-purpose, reinforced high-impact polymer. A safe alternative for steel blade swords. The blades are designed to flex in the last one-third of their length towards the tip, allowing for much safer thrusting than with conventional wooden wasters or shinai. The blade/tang joint is reinforced by a high tensile steel rod running along the full length of the handle, removing the handle flex typically associated with plastic training swords. The grips are manufactured from a rubber-like thermoplastic elastomer, designed to absorb the impact of strikes and to provide a tight fit on the tangs. These swords are about two-thirds of the weight of a steel-bladed sword, heavier than most wooden wasters on the market but still having less impact than a steel sword, thus lowering the impact when sparring. A key feature of the swords is their ease of assembly and disassembly, making for easy transport. A brass nut is molded into the pommel, providing a tight metal on metal joint to the tang and compressing the slide-on grip against the guard. An excellent, safe option for theatrical use. NOTE: Specs may vary slightly from piece to piece.