Crossada Sword

[Sumbrada77]

Hello everyone! I am trying get some information on a fillipino sword called a crossada. It's a very curved blade, sharpened on the inside, used in pairs and drawn cross hip. Thanks!

 

[Federico]

Personally I have never heard of these swords. Then again with the variety of different sharp and pointy things in PI I guess I cant claim that they dont exist. On one hand the discription kinda sounds like a panabas, but those were wielded one at a time as more of an axe type tool. The name suggests that it originates from the Northern or central islands so that opens up a whole realm of possibilities since smiths from those areas have made numerous hybrids of weaponry that often include multitudes of combinations of different cultural aspects. Where did you hear about this weapon? If you saw it on one of them weapons plaques then there are good possibilities that though the weapon may have existed it did not by that discription. Do you have any pictures of what youre talking about? Perhaps someone at either the Filipino combat arts forum has heard of these or you could try the ethnographic sword forum at www.vikingsword.com/ethsword/index.html Sorry I couldnt be of much more help.

 

[Sumbrada77]

Guro Inosanto had 2 at a seminar and talked
very briefly about them.