Kobudo Competition... what scores higher

[lordtariel]

Not sure if this should be in the weapons forum or here...

Sometimes when I've been to tournaments, I've noticed that different weapons have scored higher, seemingly on the fact that it's a specific weapon. Anyone experience this bias in their own circuits?

[cathal]

The tournaments I've seen, daggers seem to be preferred. Otherwise swords, and then the nunchucku

[bushido_man96]

I think swords tend to be the most popular.

[Rick_72]

Bo is king of the tournament. I think mostly because its still pretty practical, and its not hard to make look very powerful. Most of the other weapons really take some skill to make them look like you could actually hurt your oponent with them (obviously their all very dangerous, but take different skill levels to actually wield correctly).

[bushido_man96]

I would like to see something in the form of double stick or stick and knife, or stick and short sword.

[aefibird]

At a lot of the smaller tournaments I've been to sword forms seem to score the highest, even if competitors with other weapons have done better forms. Sword forms tend to score the most, then nunchaku, then kama.

Obviously it depends on individual practitioner skill as well as the complexity of the form being performed, but generally that "pattern" is the norm. Seems judges at certain tournaments think swords are the be-all and end-all. :-/

[bushido_man96]

Seems judges at certain tournaments think swords are the be-all and end-all. :-/

This is the general feeling that I get as well.