How fast?

[ThaiMonkey]

In arts like Kobudo, and Eskrima, which focus almost entirely on weapons, how fast are you able to take on new eapons-what do you learn for each belt period, or amt. of time before and after black belt?

[Tobias_Reece]

In Internation Okinawan Kobudo Association UK (kobudo) the following order of weapons in used (up to black belt):

 

Rokushaku bo (6ft staff)

 

Nunchaku

 

Sai (3 pronged metal truncheons)

 

Tonfa/tunkua (pr24)

 

kama (sickles)

 

Iyeku (boat oar)

 

Rokushaku bo training starts at novice

 

Nunchaku at 10th Kyu

 

Sai at 8th Kyu

 

Tonfa at 6th Kyu

 

Kama at 4th Kyu

 

Iyeku at 3rd Kyu

 

Helps? Hope it does

 

Kama starts at 4th Kyu

[Pacificshore]

In my system of kempo we start with the:

 

Bo@8th kyu(purple belt), and then again at 6th kyu(blue belt)

 

Sai@5th kyu(adv blue belt)

 

Nunchuck@2nd kyu(brown belt)

 

Back to Sai@1st kyu(adv brown belt)

 

Then for 2nd dan we learn all weapons, nunchuck, sai, and balisong

[Tobias_Reece]

Just an addition to the above post.........

 

We still train in all the weapons no matter how high the rank. For example, I just passed my 3rd kyu, in which I had to use the kama for the first time, but I also had to demonstrate the bunkai from a kata for both the bo (Cho-un-no-kon) and tunkua (tsun-kuwa-kata-ichi).

[LeaF]

Well, this is how it is done at my school....

 

5 kyu -bo and escrima stick

 

4 kyu -no new weapons are taught although 2 new bo katas are learnt

 

3 kyu -1 Tongfa and 1 Jo Kata are taught

 

2 kyu -1 new bo kata is taught and 1 sai kata is taught

 

1 kyu -1 new bo and sai kata is taught we begin bokken (wooden sword) work

 

1 dan - we use a katana and many new katas using the existing weapons are taught

 

2 dan - same as above, no new weapons but many new katas are taught

 

3 dan - here we learn the final weapon which will be taught, the kama

 

As you can see from just our three posts, it really seems to depend on your school, and where you live, nunchukus are illegal here