Great review!

Glad to see you give a review and to see what the sword can do in capable hands.

Great video and excellent cutting! I have ordered one of these and plan to make a video about some of the history behind these weapons upon arrival. You comparing the blades to medieval falchions and messers confirms a hunch that I have had about these swords myself. Although, very heavy lamellar was used during the Liao, Song, and Jin dynasties, not all troops would be armored, and the depictions of this blade in period art frequently show it as a sidearm for a heavily armored soldier which does not necessarily mean that it is meant to be used against armor.

Great review. My interest in Chinese swords is slowly growing watching these LK Chen reviews.

Awesome review, respectful recommendations, and great technique in cutting as always !! Well done Phillip 👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏼

Something very charming about that sword.

Ohh the Chinese on the box for those who care: China, Long Quan. Official Chinese non-historical valued item (Aka, not an antique or an item from ancient times) artifact. A very official and long winded term for an item that’s a reproduction of a historical item.

Wow. What a beast of a chopper! Very cool dude. Thanks for sharing.

They have updated the Song Hand Dao and introduced a two-handed variant the Song-era Zhanmadao. Curious to see how that stacks up against the recently-introduced LK Twin Peaks Liao Dao & Modern Dadao

Been seeing these swords on every sword review channel I know of. Some are pretty nice!

Nice cutting. Especially the double cut. That is a seriously scary weapon.

awesome sword and great cutting

That's a brutal chopper.

Very cool, thank u

That is just phenomenal. I wonder what the blunt edge could do against a watermelon wearing a helmet? Perhaps as an alternative use mode for armored opponents like half swording was in Europe.

Wow, the packaging is basically night and day from the shrink and bubble wrapped affair seen on Swordsage's older unboxings.

This sword looks brutish but cuts clean!

I assume the spine was left soft to make the sword flex and prevent it from breaking on strikes against harder materials.

Another guess on why the hand guard comes down on a point (point pointing down towards the edge). Simply, if an enemy gets too close and you can’t get a swing down, you certainly can turn that point down and thwack an enemy on the helmet or the neck, or turn the blade horizon and try to jam it into an eye or nose! Pretty useful in a pinch.

What do you do with all the cut up tatami?

can it thrust?

Did you sharpen the blade at all before cutting?

this sword evokes a kampilan in a handful of ways :O

Phwoah! Nasty!

If I have to venture a guess, the black extender barb on the edge just in front of the hand guard could be used to intercept and block an incoming attack from the enemy. Unlike movies or anime, you do NOT want to block an attack with your weapon, especially on the edge, not unless you wanna suffer severe edge damage. The extender is solid steel. So can take the punishment. The reason why it’s close to the hand is that it allows the hands to absorb the impact easier and not get the Dao slapped out of your hands too, which, if the impact happens further away, will do. Hence why this Dao has such large hand guard. For that and also, after blocked your enemy’s weapon on that riser, you can use the hand guard to try and trap and push or even twist you enemy’s weapon out of the way or slap it off of him. Same reason why some weapons, the bottom quarter or third are not sharp, to block incoming attacks.

Looks like a triad meat cleaver made 5 times longer

have you studied Chinese at school?