![]() This, of course, allows you to draw it without pulling the blade through the full scabbard. The scabbard borrows a bit from the 'claymore' back scabbards in that only the tip is fully encapsulated. With that in mind, I found it interesting that in the Shadow of Mordor video game, they had a different take on it: It has been firmly established as the 'cool' way to carry a sword (and the only way to carry a really big sword). Probably the most practical movie-vision of back scabbards I've seen, if I'm remembering it right.Īnyway, regardless of this, the back scabbard isn't going anywhere. ![]() If I recall right, Conan actually had his sword on a back-scabbard that he would drop to his waist before drawing. In King Arthur (the one with Clive Owens) one character has two relatively short swords on his back but you only ever see him doing some flourishy thing as they are removed. In Skyrim, the two-handers are back-carried and the character simply grabs it and pulls it round, with seemingly nothing holding it in place. While they are a common feature of movies and video games, they never seem to address the biomechanical problem - that many swords are too long to effectively draw from the back. They have a lot of disadvantages, let's face it - you can't really draw and cut or block, they're generally a pain to retrieve your sword and their historicity is thin at absolute best. ![]() First, the disclaimer: I don't like back scabbards. ![]()
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