Short sword
In kumdo, the sodo (소도) is the short bamboo sword (jukdo) held together with the long sword (daedo) in the two-sword style (ssangdo). It measures up to 62 cm.
How to say it
- Korean
- 소도sodo
- Spanish
- Sable corto
- English
- Short sword
- Japanese
- 小太刀こだちkodachi
In kumdo, the sodo (소도, "short sword") is the short bamboo sword (jukdo, 죽도) used together with the long sword (daedo, 대도) in the two-sword style (ssangdo, 쌍도; also called ido, 이도).
According to the measurement table of the Korea Kumdo Association (대한검도회), for university students and adults, both men and women:
- Sodo: length of 62 cm or less.
- Daedo: length of 114 cm or less.
Other sources give the sodo a weight of 280–300 g for men and 250–280 g for women, and a seonhyeok (선혁, the leather tip) diameter of 24 mm or more. The daedo weighs 440 g or more for men and 400 g or more for women.
In the stance called jeongido (정이도), the daedo is held in the right hand and the sodo in the left. In yeogido (역이도), it is the other way round. According to an open wiki source, the rules also allow a hanpan (한판, full point) to be scored with a strike from the sodo, although this is very rare in real matches.
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