what if martial arts stayed white

Anything about the swords knights used, or similar?
Plenty of pictures of them and descriptions of each sword
shown, as I recall.
It was a book about swords, not using them, and I can't recall
anything more said about actual swordplay than that almost
offhand remark...
Now that I think about it, it might have mentioned the renaissance
or later as the time the artistry and skill developed, but that is
probably my biases about their biases.
 
It said nothing about the variety of swords (which is something Europe is
not alone in having)
European swords are extremly diverse critically in the Late Middle Ages - Early Modern Europe, probably more than Arabo-Islamic swords by exemple (and relativly better on quality for North Africa, even if it's not at all a given regarding Middle-East) at this time.

By exemple, in the XV-XVI, depending where you was, the most used sword could be a longsword, a semi-longsword, a rapeer, a sabre, a scimitar, a claymore, a spandona, a braquemard, an espada etc. t

It's not just names that are different, but use of the blade, size of the blade, against who, use mounted or dismounted or even both. Quickly, you have different codifiations as you have de facto two different weapons with their own distinctive cultural background.

On the other hand, Arabic swords were distinct from Morocco to Persia but used same bases from one edge to another, and if these distinctions are enough important to know where it comes from, their distinct evolution are not marked enough to call for a codification by variant.
 
I know it's an irrelevant sidetrack and realise that you do in fact know
this, but it's the other way around.
Just like Theodore Roosevelt wasn't named after a toy bear designed by
Morris Michtom.

Perhaps it would have been better to word it as "Why does this supposed Indian Martial artist share his name with a Japanese success Doll?"
It was Midnight when I wrote that.
 
Perhaps it would have been better to word it as "Why does this supposed Indian Martial artist share his name with a Japanese success Doll?"
What I was trying to say in a roundabout way is that the Japanese success doll is named after and represents the supposed Indian martial
artist (in his role as founder of Zen Buddhism, I've been lead to believe).
 
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