Okay, I can see that you're watching my videos, so probably you want to know how to start 20 with weapons. And the answer for this question is quite simple. Get a weapon, find a friend, and fight. Okay, so let's get serious. In the perfect world you could just join a chema or fencing school in your hometown. But the reality is that in not all cities you have a this kind of school, so in this situation you can stick to the plan what I show you in the beginning of the video. Get some weapon, find a friend, and train with him. After these three steps you can study books or our days you can find a lot of videos and tutorials how to use the weapons or you can figure out by yourself because you know every weapon have a some limited way how to use it. So I'm pretty sure that you can figure out by yourself. Basically you have to cut through the sharp part and step with the pointy part. Only what you need is a sparring partner if we can train and in the fight you're going to see which techniques works or which not. So you can select the fantasy ones from the real ones. But let's talk about the weapons. So at the beginning I recommend you to make your own weapons. You can use the stick or something like this like self-made katana. And I make this from PVC pipe and foam and I add the wood inside so it's heavier. So you can hit and you can feel it and have some weight. So it's a good starter because you can go almost full contact with your partner and now I will get serious injury. So I recommend you to get your homemade weapons for the beginning because you don't know yet if you want to do it until you try it. So why you should use out of money for the beginning and after maybe you will not use this anymore. And I would not like to you. This hobby is not the cheapest hobby. So self-made weapons for the beginning is a good idea. If you are too lazy to make your own homemade weapon you can go for the cheaper option and this is going to be a larking sword. They look cool but I do not recommend them because they are really light and really soft and you can go full contact with them but they will not hurt you. And you know in this hobby getting hit is a part of the game and as somebody said before pain is the best teacher. So if you get hit once and you will feel it then next time you're going to try to avoid it. So you're going to dodge, you're going to parry, you're going to block basically you're going to try to avoid it. So they look cool and you can choose a lot of different options but I would not recommend you them. From other hand you have this foam heavy sparring weapon. I really like them. I highly recommend them. Those are from GoNow, P.L but I can see that a lot of companies making this kind of weapon. They are really nice because they have some weight. They are still with foam so you don't need a lot of protections but I still recommend you to have some headgear or gloves for them but about a slater. So I highly recommend you those because they have some weight. They are still safe and you can go full contact with your partner and no one will get serious hurt. Maybe. Next step probably is going to be a synthetic weapon and those are pretty cool because they have a weight and they already looks like we are one and when you train it's quite safe because they bound wooden weapons will not bound so this is a better option if you're looking for safety and yeah right now I'm training mostly with these synthetic weapons and they are cool but because I don't use so much protections you have to go at least a bit lighter and more technical but I really like to come back for this one because you can go full contact and you can do crazy stuff. So this is cool and this is cool. And after this one's probably next step is going to be a steel weapon which I don't have it yet but maybe in the future. But let's talk about the protections. At the beginning you can use the normal basic MMA gloves. It depends what kind of weapon you're going to use but if you use some weapon with the guard then you can just use MMA gloves because your fingers are inside so you will not get hurt but it's still protected from outside but if you're going to use weapons without guard then your fingers are exposed so you can get hit here and it's not a good idea to have this kind of gloves. If you don't want to use money for gloves you can make your own and I make those from the normal working gloves and I just cut the foam and glue to them and they work pretty well. You can hold the sword pretty well and you are protected from outside. Personally I am using a candle gloves. They are pretty good and they are good enough for me for my training but you cannot use them for all weapons you cannot use them for rapier example because you cannot use your fingers. I don't know the prices for them because I get them used from my old friend but yeah they are pretty good for me and I using them a lot as you can see. So let's go for the headgear. If you don't want to use so much money for equipment then you can get one of those kickboxing headgears with face mask. This is pretty good for those weapons because you are protected from almost all sides and you cannot get hit to the face so it's safe for this but I make few times mistake that I use this headgear for sparring with the aesthetic weapons and the synthetic weapons can go through this so I will stop it with my face. So I don't not recommend you this one for fighting with the synthetic weapons. Right now because I start training with synthetic weapons I get this fancy mask but this is really old fancy mask. It's not that fancy like this Hima mask with the sparring inside so it's simple and we old I get this on free market with each heap and it's still working so I'm using. So maybe in the future I'm going to get a better one and those you know more fancy what Hima practitioners are using but we'll see. So I think I have nothing more to say about the topic so I hope that I helped you a little bit and you get some useful information from me and thank you for watching. See you next time.