[stan_rogers]

Not if you're using a sword intended for cutting strokes and strike correctly. Distal to the "sweet spot", your hand will continue while the blade is rotated; proximal, and the distal end of the sword will tend to continue while your hand is levered backwards. Just as when using a tennis racket or a baseball bat, though, the moment is balanced around the point of contact when you strike correctly (the proximal part of the blade has more mass but less velocity; the distal has more velocity but less mass) and the blade, as a unit, stops (or is at least slowed by a uniform scale when the target can be cut through). Transitioning from a "chop" to a "slice" requires additional input from the swordsman.