Can sai trap swords? With the use of the other two prongs? Just curious

actuall i believe thats what it was originally intended for...the old shinobi used a sai to trap and wear down swords. great tool if u ask me.

Can sai trap swords? With the use of the other two prongs? Just curious

 

Our sai form "Odo Matayoshi" includes a sword trap. The action is a overhead strike from the sword which is caught by an X block with the sai. You then slide the two sai together catching the blade in the prongs and pull them both down and to the side.

We do a similar move in Tsukenshitahaku no sai.

Sai's can trap swords, just not well. Sais were originally designed to trap staffs. This is why the curve of their prongs is so wide. The thin blade of a sword is harder to to trap with a sai. The Jitte was actually developed for trapping and snapping swords. It is usually made with only one prong, with a much narrower curve.

yea- but only if youre reeeeally good.

They were made to trap weapons (thus if you hold in like in Daredevil your fingers get hurt or cut off). It was always a police/guard weapon in my opinion, most likely imported from China. Metal was too expensive for it to be a common farming tool...

Actually, it makes sense for sais to be made of metal. Usually carts had some kind of piece that bound a front and backcart piece together, which had to be stronger than the cart, which was wood.

 

a good sai technique? open it to parry a thrust and then jab it into their arm.

I wasn't saying that it didn't make sense for them to be made out of iron, I'm just saying that if they were too expensive to be common everyday implements.

I don't think that is an issue, I mean, jsut b/c it was metal does mean it was expensive. They had metal, they weren't in the stone age.