Related to UnorthodoxReload and UnorthodoxHolstering, you have CoolButInefficient ways of sheathing and unsheathing your swords.

Can sometimes overlap with WeaponTwirling.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] SheatheYourSword, despite the name.
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!!Examples:
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* ''RurouniKenshin'': Cho performs a Reverse Mid-Air Unsheathing and Sheathing technique. With a '''[[WouldHurtAChild baby]]''' hanging on the sheath of the sword.
* ''OnePiece'': Zoro has been known to resheath his swords by throwing them into the air and then catching them with the sheaths. And, of course, he does it with three at the same time.
* ''{{Inuyasha}}'' cheats; Tessaiga's sheath can summon the sword to it, up to some distance. He's used this twice.
* ''DragonBall Z'': Trunks has sheathed his sword at least once by catching it out of midair with its sheath. At least once, [[TalkingIsAFreeAction he lets out a good sentence before the thing fall down]]. Partially justified in that Trunks is strong enough to throw his sword [[SuperStrength into orbit]]. Another time he does this ''without'' taking the sheath off his back, simply leaning to the side as the blade slides in.
* ''MysteriousGirlfriendX'': Panty scissors.
* Toboso Yana seems to like this trope. In ''Manga/BlackButler'''s anime season two, [[spoiler: Hannah keeps a demon sword in her esophagus.]] In ''RustBlaster'', [[spoiler: Kai literally is the sheath.]]

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[[folder: Film ]]

* ''CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon'' has the characters unsheath their swords by launching the sheath across the battlefield like a missile. ''Every. Single. Time.''
* While not having an actual sheath, Qui-Gon Jinn in ''[[Film/ThePhantomMenace Star Wars: The Phantom Menace]]'' ignites his Lightsaber before it's fully left his belt, making it look like he's 'drawing' the energy blade. He does the same thing when 'sheathing' it.
** Yoda clearly believes that physically reaching over to your sheathed weapon is for chumps who don't have {{Telekinesis}}.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade'': after finishing a battle, Kisuke throws his sheath in the air and catches it with his sword.
* Haohmaru of ''SamuraiShodown'' throws his sword in the air and catches it with his sheath.
* Yuri Lowell in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' will swing his sword's sheath off the blade.
** Yuri has been known to toss his sheaths off of '''mountain ledges''', amongst other places where it should be easily lost. How the hell he keeps getting them back is a mystery.
* One of [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Lloyd Irving's]] {{Victory Pose}}s is to ''throw his blades spinning up into the air'' which both land perfectly into their sheaths without him even moving them. It's somewhat justified, however, by the fact that Lloyd Irving is empowered by an [[MacGuffin Exsphere]], which gives him superhuman strength and reflexes... and, by virtue of being the protagonist, he has the most powerful one among his allies.
* Link has one of these in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. Mostly it just involves lots of random spinning until he gets around to putting it back in. He always does it in cutscenes, but he'll also do it if the player manually resheathes immediately after clearing an area of enemies. It also appears as one of Link's taunts in ''SuperSmashBros Brawl''.
* Vergil and Dante of ''DevilMayCry'' sheathe the Yamato in odd ways after performing its aerial attack. After performing his aerial rave move, Vergil moves the sword and its sheath behind him at hip level, sheathing the sword behind his back horizontally, the same form was used by Dante in homage to his brother once acquiring Yamato. [[HalfHumanHybrid Naturally]], they're able to do this with flawless precision in less than half a second.
** Vergil, the weapon's original owner, also has variants of his sheathing technique in holding the sheathe behind him, moves the sword over his head and drops it directly down into the sheath after decimating a Hell Abyss ambush. He also sheathes Yamato in the same way as he does with his aerial rave technique - behind him at hip-level - after confronting Beowulf.
** Vergil does the same behind-the-back sheathing in his ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' victory animation.
* [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Jin]] has a behind-the-back katana-sheathing after his ''CT'' [[FinishingMove Astral Heat]] which is practically identical to Vergil's, as described above.
* Keiji Maeda from ''SengokuBasara'', whose {{BFS}} sheath descends from the heavens and lands perfectly over the blade after the end of each battle (with the implications that he threw it away at the beginning and can summon it back at will).

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* For reasons too complicated to explain that make no sense out of context, some characters in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' keep swords impaled in their midsections when not in use.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Piandao, Sokka's sword instructor, has his butler throw the sheath to him and he catches it by holding the blade out and letting the sheath slide on--while he was blinded by sand thrown in his eyes, no less.
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'''s tiny cat assassin [[KillerRabbit Me-mow]] draws her sword by vomiting it out her mouth.
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