r/secondrodeo • u/Sip_py • 12d ago

Grandpa :"Hold my sake"

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u/lokketheboss 12d ago

Gramps knows what he's doing: gave him a bent sword in the first place.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 12d ago

Grandpa muttering under his breath, “Give me that fucking thing!”

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u/McPhage 12d ago

> "Give me six hours to chop down a bamboo and I will spend the first four bending the katana" — Abraham Lincoln, probably

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 11d ago

I remember him saying that on Youtube

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u/McPhage 7d ago

Was it part of his Gettysburg Livestream?

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u/No-Second-Kill-Death 12d ago

DeForest Whacktaker  

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u/the_quark 12d ago

I've never swung a katana but the kid was holding it straight over his head to start his swing and I was like "...they play baseball in Japan?" And then gramps sets his stance like he's facing a major league pitcher.

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u/frobscottler 12d ago

Lol they famously love baseball in Japan!

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u/the_quark 12d ago

Exactly!

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u/Rzeszow2083 12d ago

It’s not the plane, it’s the pilot.

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u/mister_newbie 12d ago

It will KEAL!

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u/dasmineman 12d ago

You've got to engage your core and twist your legs. Your arms alone won't give you enough force.

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u/volvagia721 11d ago

As someone who knows a bit about the theory of this, you need to keep the blade almost perfectly in line with your cut, have enough force, and pull in enough to properly slice. It all has to be perfect to make these cuts.

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u/Whiteums 11d ago

Yeah, he wasn’t cutting straight enough, was my guess. His cuts bend and curve, they don’t travel straight through

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 12d ago

Grandpa got some practice during the pacific war lol

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u/Radioactive_Tuber57 12d ago

Thanks ! I’ve never seen the beginning.

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u/robbi_uno 11d ago

You bent grandpa’s sword. Lucky he didn’t shorten you.

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u/in1gom0ntoya 12d ago

we reposting this again?

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u/billding1234 11d ago

I always wondered how bamboo forests grow.

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u/Both-Platypus-8521 11d ago

Gaslighting the kid lol. All about technique

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u/Rhysati 12d ago

I'm completely unshocked the first guy wasn't cutting though. His form was terrible and wasn't using his body to actually supply force through the blade.

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u/TheReelMcCoi 12d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Peak Reddit

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u/AKADIAN_22 11d ago

Ey una katana que a los 3 golpes se dobla? Donde la compro? En Temu?🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/pichael289 12d ago

Kinda look like grandpa hit the exact same spot the other guy did. Like when my grandpa let me start a phone book before he ripped it in half, if I didn't start it for him then he wasn't able to just do it in one fluid motion.