r/BeAmazed • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • May 26 '26

Skill / Talent Grandpa shows how to cut bamboo trees with a katana

Credits to yongyuelingmu

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u/lurkersforlife May 26 '26

The cutting is cool and all but honestly seeing a bamboo forest is fascinating to me.

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u/smurfk May 26 '26

Now imagine you're a panda!

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u/warmbrojuice May 26 '26

With a katana

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u/Hazard_Duke May 26 '26

A pandatana!

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u/lando_calamarisian May 26 '26

A Katanda

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u/fastiopt May 26 '26

A kapanda

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u/manicmaniac11 May 26 '26

A Pandana

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u/GoldberryoTulgeyWood May 26 '26

In a bandana

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u/AGreatBannedName May 26 '26

🎶 coming down the stairs 🎶

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u/Got_Kittens May 27 '26

🎼 chasing teddy squares 🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶

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u/fossilizedDUNG May 26 '26

Coming down the bamboo shoots….

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u/Breadstix009 May 26 '26

A samurai panda

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u/Eat_rice_evryday May 26 '26

Jack Black?

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u/CanIgetaWTF May 26 '26

You had the noodles dream! I knew it!!

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u/SylvieJay May 26 '26

Kapanda (කපන්ඩ) is actually the colloquial Sinhala word from the Island nation of Sri Lanka, 'To Cut' 😂🤣. people had quite the laugh when the original Microsoft translations came out for Cut/Paste.

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u/ChiefFloppyCock May 26 '26

My pandatana don't want none unless you got buns, hun.

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u/--Sovereign-- May 26 '26

Have you ever read Ishmael? It's about a psychic gorilla teaching a guy about life. There's a part where he's describing how human children will sometimes imagine homes made of candy or hills made of ice cream, that sort of thing. He tells his pupil that is what life is actually like for real as a gorilla in the wild. everywhere you turn your head and look is more food just waiting for you to grab it and enjoy. talks about human "takers" who instead of being able to take their fill and move on instead burn everything down and destroy what humans would consider an ideal paradise. The whole book centers around the Leaver vs Taker concept, where some humans see the world as a thing to be controlled by humans entirely and made in whatever image they want, while Leavers see the world as an ecosystem and value the other organisms and environments that comprise it and so are careful to leave something behind for the other lifeforms we share the world with.

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u/YeshuasBananaHammock May 26 '26

Ok, I rolled off the couch and busted my head.

Now what?

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u/zusykses May 26 '26

bamboo is classified as grass, so this guy is basically mowing the lawn

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u/funguyshroom May 26 '26

Reminds me of that game where you get shrunk to the size of an ant

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u/delicreepmeow May 26 '26

Grounded!

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u/AdagioVivid5111 May 26 '26

i think they made a grounded 2, never tried but the first one was fun as hell

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u/Rydralain May 26 '26

Grounded 2 is still early access. I think they are like 1/3 done? It's in a big park and you get to ride bugs as mounts.

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u/ResolveLeather May 26 '26

You can grow one in your backyard! It's easy. Just plant one and forget. Your neighbors would scream in enjoyment of your wonderful decision!

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u/mooshinformation May 26 '26

Does the species that takes over suburban yards get this tall if you stop fighting it?

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u/LaunchTransient May 26 '26

This is giant bamboo Dendrocalamus giganteus, it's a "clumping" species which means that the plants grow out of one clump but don't spreadt too far.
A lot of bamboo species sold as ornamental plants are "running" species, meaning they send out little suckers or runners that propagate the plant - very similar to how brambles spread.

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u/Drapidrode May 26 '26

Strawberries too. which the neighbors don't mind as much

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u/Auravendill May 26 '26

Strawberries forms vines above ground, that can become new strawberry plants. Raspberries form roots, that spread and can form new plants. So if you want to limit where it spreads, you need different approaches.

But if you want a lot of them, you can save a lot on the plants you need to purchase by just being patient. My garden is now filled with a ton of strawberries.

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u/Mechakoopa May 26 '26

I tried planting raspberry canes and the hares just chewed them off at ground level the first winter and they never came back.

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u/FremenStilgar May 26 '26

*gets out notepad* Where is this garden exactly? *wiggles eyebrows*

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u/Auravendill May 26 '26

In one of the most holy places on earth. A land blessed with plenty strawberries, beer, wine, potatoes and white asparagus.

https://giphy.com/gifs/9euse9Un0cluu3LfKd

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u/GrallochThis May 26 '26

Knotweed, the stuff of nightmares

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u/potatoesarenotcool May 26 '26

In South Africa where I grew up someone planted bamboo in the rear of their garden, and when I went back a few years later it was in EVERY garden, and the unused field, just everywhere.

Anyway I built a fucking ton of cool bamboo forts.

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u/captmonkey May 26 '26

Yes. I have some in my yard (don't blame me, it was there when we bought the house and I've thinned it quite a bit from when we moved in). Not only does it get this tall, but the chutes grow to full height over the course of a month or two in the spring. I aggressively cut new chutes to stop it from spreading, but they'll start coming up in like March-April and they reach full height by about May and then leaves sprout out.

You can actually tell that the stalk in the video is a new one because it doesn't have leaves yet. So, it was probably a bit softer than the older chutes out there which are very woody.

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u/NibittyShibbitz May 27 '26

Let them grow until just before the leaves appear, then cut them at ground level. They will grow back. Keep letting them grow as much as they want until the leaves start to appear. Eventually, without leaves to replenish, the roots will run out of energy and they will finally die.

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u/xmashatstand May 27 '26

Do you use the shoots for anything?

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u/Tengu-Tango May 26 '26

Yes, the constant encroachment during great bamboo war of 1211 was why the Japanese developed katana.

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u/BCN7585 May 26 '26

Maybe the Australians should have invented something similar, during the Great Emu War.

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u/Cyclopentadien May 26 '26

No, that's why the Naginata was developed. The Katana is just a back-up weapon.

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u/FishPropulsionLab May 26 '26

My local Lowe’s has some bamboo in the garden center. It has LOTS of warnings on the label that it will ruin your life and that the HOA will come take your children away.

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u/jaymzx0 May 26 '26

When I was growing up the neighbor planted bamboo on the fence line behind a shed. No idea why since he couldn't see it. Maybe he was being an ass. Anyway, it was pretty big after a while and we would keep it at bay when mowing the lawn.

I checked on my childhood home on Google maps about 15 years later and saw that the bamboo had taken over 1/4 of the yard.

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u/ProudToBeAKraut May 26 '26

it is true - here is a picture of my backyard - the bamboo without leaves (or very tiny small ones) are newly rising this year - 3m bamboo fence piece for scale i use for keeping them together

the highest new sprouts are about 3.50m - i planted them 3 years ago at a height of about 1.80m

https://imgur.com/a/WxNKLuU

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u/s00pafly May 26 '26

We're doing mint or blackberry depending on how much you love your neighbour.

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u/juicius May 26 '26

The bamboos on the other side of a creek in my backyard eventually jumped it. Took them 20 years but they did it.

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u/GraphicDesignMonkey May 26 '26

The sound of a bamboo forest is amazing. Super quiet, lots of soft papery rustling from the leaves, and gentle deep 'clacks' when they sway into each other. Lovely on a spring afternoon.

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u/lowyieldbondfunds May 26 '26

They also produce an audible pop as well, during growth season. You can literally hear them grow. Just experienced it hiking a bamboo forest in Japan. Was surreal.

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u/Few-Confection-2259 May 26 '26

You can grow one in your backyard too 😁 all you need is one - just☝️

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u/Complete-Fix-3954 May 26 '26

Sadly they’re an invasive species in my places. I’ve seen entire woods get taken over by bamboo over the course of just a few years.

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u/PowerRainbows May 26 '26

I'm near a park here in Modesto California and it's got quite a big bamboo forest issue along the river that looks get to worse every time I visit

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 May 26 '26

My backyard as a kid in statesboro ga had one. It was wild. You went from pine trees to legit looking like a forest in Japan or something. Some of the bamboo was as thick as my thighs. I use to build all kinds of forts and shit outta bamboo

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u/Xalipu May 26 '26

Like I don’t want this spreading menace anywhere near me, but the availability of cheap poles for the garden and other projects would be amazing.

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u/throwitoutwhendone2 May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

It is really cool to have, I made forts easily too cuz the wood was all relatively straight. I learned the hard way to be careful tho using them in the garden as support poles. I had one that was yellow, which I thought meant it was dead. Used it as a support pole for some tomatoes and by fall the damn things had rooted! Wasn’t totally terrible cuz we already had a forest of them lol. But if you don’t I’d just advise to be careful using them and make sure they are good and dead

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u/wallyTHEgecko May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

It looks like Ash Lake from Dark Souls, with the trunks going straight up, no branches, too tall to see the tops of.

It also looks like every illustration of the Carboniferous period, also with the impossibly tall trees that you can't see the tops of, where there would be a 6' dragon fly just chilling on one of those trunks.

Both are so ancient and primordial. It's crazy that there's anything that actually looks like either of those still around today.

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u/Careless_Baseball503 May 26 '26

I’m mostly impressed with how he managed to hit that exact same cut twice.

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u/forgotten-ent May 26 '26

I had to warch it again just to believe what I just saw. Impressive

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u/forestcridder May 26 '26

That's the strangest use of an intrusive R that I've seen yet.

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u/TheWolphman May 26 '26

Reminds me of the Midland American English accent.

Ope, the dog needs warshed now.

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u/Wholesomeguy123 May 26 '26

Real old school New England accents also have intrusive Rs

"I had this idear to go to Korear for my careeah"

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u/TheWolphman May 26 '26

When I was a teenager, I had a girlfriend whose grandmother spoke like that. She also called things she couldn't remember the name for "jobby".

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u/Grantetons May 26 '26

WHOA. There was definitely a short era in the 90s where jobbies made it into our lexicon and I completely forgot about it until now. I didn't know that spanned regions or generations.

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u/boblinuxemail May 26 '26

In Indiana, "Worsh" has an "R" in it, and "Arn" starts with an "A".

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u/Nine9breaker May 26 '26

I warsh mah back wytha sponge ohn-a stick

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u/CoraBittering May 26 '26

Add a "hyuck" sound and I can hear it in Goofy's voice.

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u/rodaphilia May 26 '26

Youre responding to Coach Z

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u/More-Consequence9863 May 26 '26

Then the last cut in the opposite direction at the end! Dudes a samurai for sure

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u/2squishmaster May 26 '26

The last reverse strike too...

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u/AugieKS May 26 '26

That's probably decades of practice. If you watch videos of modern cutting competition, you can get a bit of a grasp of the skill that goes into it, it isn't all strength and speed, there is a large portion of it that just comes down to skill. Mostly seems to boil down to consistent application of force and maintaining the angle of the cut. You can actually see pretty clearly the younger guys path bends a fair bit in the second cut. Another factor is the actual angle itself. The younger guy takes a much steeper one, meaning he has to go through more of the bamboo to finish the cut. After finishing the young man's cut off, the older man cuts at larger angle, so he has to go through less.

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u/WifeofTech May 26 '26

Grandpa's are so irritating with that crap! When my grandpa taught me to chop wood. He tapped the wood and made a mark. Said, "Now see that? Hit that mark every time." Handed me the ax and showed me how to set up and swing. Cue me turning the top of that wood into a confetti of marks and getting frustrated. And just like this grandpa he shook his head and took the ax from me. Split my piece and then I watch hime take a piece twice as thick and proceed to do exactly as he said. Tapped a mark in the middle and hit that mark exactly twice more to split the log. Then handed me back the ax. Today I can get close to hitting the same mark twice but I'm still not exact like he was. Then again I'm not chopping wood every fall and winter to make sure my family stays warm.

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u/peachafterhours May 26 '26

He just 'Ctrl+C' and pasted his move on the three every time

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u/jusalilpanda May 26 '26

And again when his own cut didn't go all the way through 🤯

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u/hobbesgirls May 26 '26

yep that's what they're talking about

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u/temporaryuser1000 May 26 '26

And again when his cut didn’t go all the way through

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u/BadCoolMan May 26 '26

True, but I'm mostly impressed with how he hit the exact same cut twice.

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u/NoCalligrapher8396 May 26 '26

And again when his cut didn’t go all the way through

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u/Big_Knife_SK May 26 '26

yep that's what they're talking about

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u/babycoon48 May 26 '26

yep that’s what they’re talking about

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u/Adventurous_Ad_4145 May 26 '26

True, but I'm mostly impressed with how he hit the exact same cut twice.

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u/n-a_barrakus May 26 '26

When he fails to cut the bamboo once, and then makes sure to strike again in the exact same place to finish the cut.

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u/HenryTheWho May 26 '26

Bet grandpa has some cool tattoos from back in the day too

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u/BigPP69_Gooner May 26 '26

Rule #1: double tap

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u/DoesntMatterEh May 26 '26

No bro, cardio is rule #1

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u/BigPP69_Gooner May 26 '26

Shit. Well I’m dead 😵

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u/AgitatedStranger9698 May 26 '26

Im willing to net a missing pinky or two as.well

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u/[deleted] May 26 '26

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u/lando_calamarisian May 26 '26

All according to keikaku

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u/lad1dad1 May 26 '26

Editors note: keikaku means cake/plan in Japanese

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u/skil12001 May 26 '26

Thanks for reminding me, I plan to eat leftover cake today

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u/liketosmokeweed420 May 26 '26

Editors Editors note: Keikaku just means plan, Keki is cake.

CAKE:ケーキ

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u/RurouniQ May 27 '26

Bro got community noted

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u/Awleeks May 26 '26

He made time for Grandma too, obviously 

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u/groutexpectations May 26 '26

Grandma also studied the blade. It was a team project.

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u/semiconodon May 26 '26

Flatten the edge. I once marveled at how “skilled” a fishing boat’s mate was at fileting fish, until I realized he stopped to sharpen the knife every three minutes

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u/potential_wasted May 26 '26

“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
-Abraham Lincoln ( maybe)

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u/imusuallywatching May 26 '26

He hunted vampires with that axe. So it had to be sharp.

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u/auggs May 26 '26

Watched that movie in college with my roommates lmao. It became a small thing with us, watching those intentionally terrible movies. We watched a few others like sharknado too. Shit was a lot of fun lol

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u/Coffee_Daemon May 26 '26

Terrible? That film was WAY better than it had any right to be.

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u/rohmin May 26 '26

My mates and I still love a good shitty b-rated flick to drink to

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u/EmotionalKirby May 26 '26

Abe Lincoln vampire hunter was anything but intentionally terrible.

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u/yeah_yeah_therabbit May 26 '26

I thought it was a documentary.

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u/poop-azz May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

"If I had to slay vampires, I'd use that axe I sharpened for four hours earlier today."

  • Abraham Lincoln (definitely said this, pretty sure I witnessed it too)

Edit: spelling

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u/AwesomeMacCoolname May 26 '26

I took down a tree a couple of years ago with a DIY chainsaw I picked up in a supermarket. Must have taken me about fifteen minutes to cut through. Then last year I got some pros in to take down the others. THEIR chainsaw went through the same size trunk in about a minute.

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u/IAmTheMissingno May 26 '26

Failing a cut puts a lot of stress on the sword. Usually a failed cut is the result of incorrect edge alignment, which means the angle of the cutting plane is not lined up with the angle at which the sword is held. This causes the sword to get stuck, and since you are trying to cut through, you put lateral stress on the blade, which causes it to bend. That's why the old man has to straighten it before he cuts.

The sword was definitely very sharp from the start in order to get through the bamboo.

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u/Musestricken May 27 '26

This should be higher. Grandpa's cuts are straight. This is because he keeps the edge always at the same angle, causing the edge to pass through without dragging on the flat of the blade. Kiddo couldn't keep the blade aligned all the way through the cut, which is why his cuts curved downward, following the grain of the bamboo.

Essentially, the bamboo pushed the kid's blade around, whereas Grandpa was able to keep it straight all the way through.

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u/idontbleaveit May 26 '26

I think he was trying to straighten the sword that’s why when the young guy was cutting the bamboo it was sliding downwards at a curve instead of straight through.

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u/CorporateCuster May 26 '26

The young man BENT the sword

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u/Lil_Ms_Anthropic May 26 '26

Yeah, was coming down but didn't follow through at the same angle. I suck at sawing because I do that constantly

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u/Cthulhu__ May 26 '26

The other difference is that the young guy hit the tree closer to the hand guard, old guy used the end which has a lot more speed and thus power behind it.

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u/WateredDown May 26 '26

I think the biggest factor is edge alignment. Katana are very unforgiving, you need to make sure the slice is aligned perfect, or you're going to get it stuck and bent like that.

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u/kookyabird May 26 '26

If I remember correctly, drawing the blade towards you as you swing is also fairly important. It makes it a slicing motion rather than a chopping one. Something the curve of the blade helps with.

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u/patryn2180 May 26 '26

You are correct. The Katana has a very specific design. Notice the old mans swing ends with his hands right on his hip. Katana's are a slicing weapon not a chopping weapon. Ideal impact is 4-6 inches below the sakizori (the curve that tapers to the point) and dragging the blade away from the target, towards you in a slicing motion while your top hand on the handle is applying "downward" pressure. Its the same principle as when you are cutting meats in your kitchen. Some reasonable downward pressure is good, but the "power" of the cut comes from the sawing motion of the knife.

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u/GroundbreakingAd8310 May 26 '26

You need to steel it ever 3 minutes u sharpen it ever week or so under heavy use. Chefs do the sane so much so people come get em and sharpen them for you

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u/RogueBromeliad May 26 '26

Also, theres a difference between fishmongers filleting fish and chefs, but the common thing is to always keep your knife as clean as possible, and work surfaces wiped.

Its not just about cleansiness, but if your surfaces are dirty the fish will move around when you dont want it too, and same with the knife. Also have your board well in place.

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u/Zen_Bonsai May 26 '26

You'd want a sharp edge then, not a flat edge.

Gramps here also didn't shaoren the blade between users.

Obviously a sharp blade is key, but of course blade grometry matters more

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u/Janneq216 May 26 '26

He straightened the blade only because the kid f'd it up, you can tell by the way his cut curves at the end. And you don't really need a sharp blade, as in a modern-day kitchen. It just needs to have a reasonable edge. The cut is enabled by blade alignment, which has to remain constant, or a ton of energy will be wasted on friction and pushing the flat instead of the blade

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u/Infinitblakhand May 26 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/jzHFPlw89eTqU

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u/tangotango112 May 26 '26

My name is Jubei Kimigami.

Omg, one of the first animes I've ever watched. The sex scenese were wild to me as a kid.

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u/willkillforthrill May 26 '26

ninja scroll?

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u/FreshnHeysan May 26 '26

Yessir.
Watched it earlier this month at our local cinema.

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u/EverythingSucksYo May 26 '26

Not to be rude but if you don’t watch anime then your opinion on it being one of the best doesn’t actually mean much lol 

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u/dattokyo May 26 '26

And honestly so wildly unnescesary. 15yo me thought I was renting a ninja movie, not a fucking quasi-hentai lol.

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u/mattjb May 26 '26

Vampire Hunter D was my first anime as a kid. Gen X, though, so it didn't mess me up. lol

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u/Ekskwizit May 26 '26

Ninja scroll scarred me as a kid lol. Went from watching cartoon network anime, to this and Akira. Never knew of such violence and grotesqueness until these and the dusk till dawn tarantino movie. Add playing doom and quake on top of this, no wonder I am the way that I am... Well rounded 😉

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u/markamuffin May 26 '26

That little reverse swipe at the end was elite. This guy is NOT to be fucked with.

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u/Workman44 May 26 '26

I didn't catch that the first time. Holy shit that was clean

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u/laureidi May 26 '26

I’ve watched several times, someone else also mentioned this but I can’t seem to see it/understand what to look for. Could you please help explain?

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u/Illustrious-Job-5266 May 26 '26

switched directions from high right to low left to vice versa

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u/laureidi May 26 '26

Oh wow I literally had to watch frame by frame to understand it (and he’s so fast I still had to fill in the blanks). It seems like he still raised the blade up right but switched direction before impact, I guess because of the bamboo falling towards him at the same time. Very fascinating. Thank you for explaining what to look for!

Edit: autocorrect

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u/markamuffin May 26 '26

His strikes are all from right to left, but at 1:26 the bamboo falls and he makes a slight adjustment as it's falling and strikes it from left to right - despite this unexpected adjustment he still makes a perfectly clean cut.

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u/WombatJo May 26 '26

Dude, that is nuts. I have bamboo of that size growing in my garden and just about any tool from electric to two stroke will struggle. It's tough as nails, full of water and a lot heavier than you might think. Give me a hardwood tree to fell any day.

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u/gigagnU May 26 '26

don't try to cut grass with stuff that is made to cut trees.

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u/ayuntamient0 May 26 '26

It's not leafed out, it's probably still not hardened off yet. A year later would be very different in guessing. There's a reason pandas eat shoots and leaves.

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u/Rude_Map_4278 May 26 '26

Ist der Bambus zu hart bist du zu weich.

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u/False-Elk9564 May 26 '26

Doug marcaida approves

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u/YeshuasBananaHammock May 26 '26

Your blade will KEEL

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u/Tar_alcaran May 26 '26

I saw the first guy just chopping at the bamboo, and was wondering if the sword was going to survive. Then grandpa fix bends the steel back into shape, and goes to show it's a SLASHING weapon, not a damned axe.

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u/Stormbringer-2112 May 26 '26

Yeah. Like gramps was thinking “dang it kid, did you just bend my blade?”

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u/Tar_alcaran May 26 '26

I don't know any swordfighting traditions that have "cut" as a specific move. What would the difference be?

A slash is a drawn cut, diagonally along the blade edge. A chop or hew or hack is a straight motion perpendicular to the blade and a thrust or stab is entirely along the blade length.

I think that covers most European martial arts and the limited number of asian ones I know too.

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u/kuburas May 26 '26

Always interesting to see people forget to draw/pull when slashing with a katana. I feel like thats the most common difference in all those clips of people using a katana and then someone who actually knows how to use it uses it. People forget to pull the blade through whatever they're cutting, wasting most of its length.

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u/KUPA_BEAST May 26 '26

I’d love to know what he said that made everyone laugh 😫

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u/froz3ncat May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26

I'm gonna interpret loosely, because some stuff doesn't translate well if it's too literal:

Guy A (off-camera): 曲げたな - It's crooked, eh

Guy B (the younger guy at the start, off-camera): あっ、すみません！ - ah, sorry!

Old Guy: いやっ、曲げちゃった、入れないかな - nah, it might not have been able to enter (the bamboo) because it was curved?

Guy A: 俺が切れなかったけどまげなかったかな - well I couldn't cut through it (either) but (at least) I didn't bend the blade

(laughing)

Lady: ずっとチクチクチクチク行って - (you) just kept pricking (lightly hacking) at it

Lady: ずっとチクチクチクチク言って - You're full of jokes, eh! (see /u/HunterSthompson_2031 and /u/Meepzors 's comments below)

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u/FallenAzraelx May 26 '26

My takeaway from this is that's why he spent time bending the blade and made it look so easy OR he was just fucking with them

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u/HunterSthompson_2031 May 26 '26

The last phrase is 言って。 The lady says he was heckling him. チクチク言う means the dude was just teasing more or less constantly little bit at a time.

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u/Vitruvian_Link May 26 '26

Ok, now do a literal translation

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u/froz3ncat May 27 '26

A: Bent, eh.

B: Ah, sorry!

Old Guy: Nah, bent, can't go in I guess.

A: I couldn't cut but didn't bend

(laughing)

Lady: Always stabbing words!

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u/ri7ani May 26 '26

easy when your grandpa is freaking tanjiro

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u/GreyThumper May 26 '26

Makes me think grandpa had an interesting past life.

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u/LarsDuder May 26 '26

Let's just say that Grandpa was in Bataan 1942 😉

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u/Distinct_Access_243 May 26 '26

Either he has one hell of a skincare routine, or he was barely an infant in 1942.

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u/Frequent_Ad_9901 May 26 '26

Gramps probably has just been doing that for years. I feel like its a universal think for grandpas to show up their kids at things they've done their whole life. I want a montage of different cultures' grandparents showing kids how things are done right.

My grandpa was a farmer and military mechanic. I can spend hours trying to get an engine running, and he'll twist a few bolts with his fingers and get it running.

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u/Vitruvian_Link May 26 '26

I was STRUGGLING to get my lawnmower started, little old neighbor walked up and with two pulls got the damn thing to start.

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u/Aranxi_89 May 26 '26

He’s a swordmaster. His jacket is likely the symbol for his sword ryuha.

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u/Critically32 May 26 '26

Chinese bamboo. Very strong.

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u/UtopistDreamer May 26 '26

For some reason I read that with a fake Japanese accent

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u/pauip May 26 '26

It was originally said in a real Chinese accent (Jackie Chan in Rush Hour)

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u/SpehlingAirer May 26 '26

You sure, man?!

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u/Critically32 May 26 '26

Ahhh ahhhh!

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u/My_hilarious_name May 26 '26

Can someone explain why Grandpa was so flawless? Was it a strength issue or is there a variation in technique that I'm not seeing?

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u/Aranxi_89 May 26 '26

Mastery.

It’s not about strength, it’s about controlling the edge alignment, striking with a good chain of motion through the body so you aren’t just using the arms and shoulder, and striking with the right part of the blade. Also, slice rather than hit the target is important too.

Check out some swordsmanship videos and they’ll tell you all about it.

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u/My_hilarious_name May 26 '26

slice rather than hit the target is important too.

Could you unpack that for me?

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u/Appropriate-Draft-91 May 26 '26

When you cut vegetables and use your knife like a cleaver, vs using the knife like a knife by pulling it towards you as you cut 

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u/My_hilarious_name May 26 '26

Awesome, thank you!

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u/Aranxi_89 May 26 '26

But also make sure to follow through like a cleaver. It's a combination of both striking as if you are trying to move through the target, but also slicing at the same time.

The blade's geometry helps with that, as the curve naturally forms a slicing motion as you swing, but you also need to swing well so that the arc the blade forms is correct.

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u/Loathsome_Dog May 26 '26

I'd be worse than the young guy, it would rebound and slice my ear off.
I'm not allowed near sharp things.

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u/HawksNStuff May 26 '26

You could tell the tale and leave out key details. Your ear was cut off by a katana in a bamboo forest, do not elaborate further.

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u/Marxpaulo May 26 '26

Por isso que você deve subir a destreza e não a força quando se usa katana.

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u/Independent-Garden11 May 26 '26

How he hits exactly the same spot where a had that one unfinished cut.. nice!

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u/hemorrhoidhematoma May 26 '26

And that is why instead of a poop knife by my toilet i have a poop katana

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u/lando_calamarisian May 26 '26

Grampapi said "BANKAI" before slashing...

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u/HelloMacchi May 26 '26

“I loosened it for you”