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Whats your favorite Karate weapon?  

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  1. 1. Whats your favorite Karate weapon?

    • Nunchaku
      12
    • Yawara Sticks
      0
    • Sai
      10
    • Fighting Knife
      2
    • Tonfa
      2
    • Staff
      6
    • Bo
      18


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You missed out nunchkau which were used 4 beating rice. There is a book called 'Complete book of Karate weapons' by 'Theodore Gambordella' former US Karate champion and Weapons Champion and its states that the main okinwana weapons were those I listed. However the other weapons that people have mentioned may not have been mainsteam okinwana weapons but may have grown in popularity nowadays and so people may think they are.

 

Yeah --- I forgot the 'chucks. I'm going to try to get my hands on that book to see if it lines up with what I've learned.

 

Basically I was taught that all of the Okinawan weapons were some sort of farm tool

 

bo staff - used to carry buckets across shoulders

 

chucks - beating the rice

 

tonfa - also for rice beating

 

sai - I learned the long blade is for poking holes in the ground to plant seeds and the shorter prong was dragged along the ground to build irrigation trenches (problem is you'd have to grab the long blade to drag the short blade thru the ground --- doesn't make sense) --- I later learned the sai was built as a weapon and not a farm tool

 

Aku / Oar -- used to manuever the boats

 

kama - used to chop the fields (like a sickle)

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You seem to know what ur talking about, your probably in the right. It says this book in front of me (Nunchaku the complete training guide by Jiro Shiroma) that the sai was "A curved blade attached to a wood handle which cut grain stalks".

 

Does anyone know how to use the chucks cuz a bought this book to learn how to use them; I tell ya its is friggen hard, i've given up, it must take loads and loads of practice, some of the techniques in the book are so hard to perform. I like to use the Jodan Yoko Kamae figure of 8 (only one i can do!), good at building the forearm and wrist.

 

Its a good book though; if your've got the stomach for it, u can get it from https://www.blitzsport.com

"When my enemy contracts I expand and when he expands I contract" - Bruce Lee

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(Nunchaku the complete training guide by Jiro Shiroma) that the sai was "A curved blade attached to a wood handle which cut grain stalks".

 

It sounds like Shiroma is describing the kama. Perhaps it was an editing error?

 

A better book on nunchaku usage is in "Nunchaku and Sai" by Ryusho Sakagami.

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Actually ur probably right, how can i sai be curved?!

 

I suppose he could be talking about the wing blades on the outside and then the middle blade went into the wooden handle, cuz thats a pretty big printing error.

"When my enemy contracts I expand and when he expands I contract" - Bruce Lee

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I cant believe the Bo is beating the Nunchaku...interesting.

"When my enemy contracts I expand and when he expands I contract" - Bruce Lee

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yeah my sensei gives katanas and nun chuks out katanas going to the higher ranks of course and nun chuks to lower ranks . But personally i like kamas .

Frank Dux


Record Holder of The Kumite.

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In this one Tae Kwon Do organization I saw them use weapons and I was wondering, Isn't TKD a weaponless martial art?
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i have no idea what weapons these are :-? im only white belt but was brown in kyokushin but left it!! :roll:

Also is there any1 in leicester doing the same style as me???

e-mail me :idea:

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I've voted Nunchaku because its so cool! and Bruce Lee has made it ledgendary, I mean its two sticks and a ball bearing chain WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!

Exactly :)

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