Butterfly sword?

[sonic]

can anyone tell me more abnout them please? (already looked at wikipedia)

[Feathers of Doom]

what do you want to know about them?

[AikiGuy]

Look here.

http://www.centuryfitness.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10051&storeId=10051&productId=65551&langId=-1&product_parentId=13528&crumb=13501&categoryId=13528&parent_category_rn=13524

[lordtariel]

http://home.vtmuseum.org/articles/meng/butterflyknives.php

Found this when poking around the interweb.

[bushido_man96]

http://home.vtmuseum.org/articles/meng/butterflyknives.php

Found this when poking around the interweb.

There are some interesting tidbits in there. Thanks for sharing, lordtariel.

[boyo1991]

i agree!

[ARADOX]

I always thought that the butterfly swords (or bulls ear sword whatever you wanna call them) were more of a Chinese variant of a Japanese weapon called a "Jitte" if you look it has the sword catching bar thing on the back, the only difference is that it's sharp, I wonder what kond of people actually used these, it looks too, sort of, proffesional if you like to be a street weapon, but it's not really big or heavy enough to be an effective military weapon, perhaps an assassins toy, oooooohh , nice stuff, if anyone uses these I'd like to know more about the actual techniques and see if they ARE assassin-like.

[lordtariel]

I believe they were carried by the shaolin monks as backup weapons to be used in a pinch.

[lordtariel]

I always thought that the butterfly swords (or bulls ear sword whatever you wanna call them) were more of a Chinese variant of a Japanese weapon called a "Jitte" if you look it has the sword catching bar thing on the back, the only difference is that it's sharp, I wonder what kond of people actually used these, it looks too, sort of, proffesional if you like to be a street weapon, but it's not really big or heavy enough to be an effective military weapon, perhaps an assassins toy, oooooohh , nice stuff, if anyone uses these I'd like to know more about the actual techniques and see if they ARE assassin-like.

http://www.trocadero.com/noamin/items/630284/en1.html

I believe Jitte were a blunt with a pointed tip for thrusting. The prong that ran up was used for catching a sword and twisting it out of somebody's hands, or in the hands of a skilled practitioner, even break them.

http://www.wle.com//products/w104c.html

Butterfly knives were are essentially heavy, single-edged knives that were for the most part chisel sharp. I believe the prong on a butterfly knife can be used the same way as the jitte. They are much heavier than a jitte so techniques would be completely different. Butterfly knives are also used for strength training.

[mantis.style]

they are slicing weapons and their origins are another of the unknowns in CMAs.