Customer Reviews

Long Weapon - Kwan Dao Combat Steel

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I was very impressed with this kwan dao. Ive held many others and this one has to be the best quality ive come across so far. I do recomend that if you are planning on using this for practice, that you should work very hard on developing your upper body strength because this sucker is heavy! It weighs about 14 lbs and unlike most kwan dao's out there, the shaft is made of solid metal! Originaly, these babies would have weighed somewhere between 50 - 100 lbs! But now people tend to shy away from that and prefer wushu steel. If you are looking for your first kwan dao, I would probably recommend that you buy either the dragon head kwan dao (8 lbs) or the wushu steel (4 lbs) from martial arts mart. But if youve got the brawn then I say go for it!

Enough weight to give you a workout. But let's face it, it's not a real weapon. You are not cutting anything with this. A couple of hose clamps will affix the shaft securely onto the passenger back rest of your motorcycle. That will make for an intimidating bike.

The Overall quality is ok. However the joint between the blade and the shaft(rod thing) of the kwan dao is not very solid. It uses a very small welding cord in the middle. The plate and the blade are not weld together which adds to the same problem. This causes the weapon's blade to tremble a little bit on mid swing and It doesn't provide me with much confidence (I am only a manufacturing engineer, this may be per design and completely acceptable for its intended use). That said, It has not broken yet and no cracks are visible, also it has perform very well in the couple of times where it was used for an exhibition.