mksmash here, aka @MRKilian1.
Searching for info on safe houses and got this. So I just racked up about a hundred procrastination points. Great stuff.

Just a comment on the Jack Reacher thing. Lee Child didn’t write the screenplay, but I saw where he said he liked the movie.

I liked it too, but Tom is not Jack. Reacher fans everywhere must have been amused at the car chase scenes. Reacher is a self described bad driver. He even explains it scientifically, sort of. Something to do with spatial awareness I think.

Mostly the hot woman he usually finds at the beginning of a book does the driving.

Awesome!

This is really helpful!

A friend who has a black belt in Karate and uses a sword for demos, maybe a katana, suggested http://www.thesamuraiworkshop.com/university/index.html

This is a second reply related to Kristen’s comments about the devils in the details: I once had some technical information I wanted to share with the reader, but it was rather dry. So I put it in a conversation between the male protagonist and the female protagonist just before they went to bed. One editor said it’s the most realistic dialogue in the book, and my worst critic, so far, said that was where the book started to get interesting. (Chapter 12 in “Launch”)

Thanks! Kill Bill was katana.

I have made inquires about katana swords, and I will let you know if I get anything. There is a Wikipedia article about katana swords, and Kill Bill had extended sword fights by people who were supposed to be experts using Japanese swords. They may have been katana.

What are some things that a beginner would think to do that are massively wrong? How would you correct those things? What are some unique problems to this type of sword? Is there anything that is easier about this than other types? How much time does it take to have a basic understanding? How much of this information do I actually need to use? Sorry, I have a lot of questions.

What do you want to know? It will depend on ur question. I’m better with hand-to-hand, staff and guns, but I had to study a lot of weapons over the years for martial arts.