karate weapons

[Guitar_lover]

Right about karate weapon cos i am intrested. As my style does not focus on them intill your propley very high i am guessing. Which karate styes teach you them. Also just wondering from what someone told me. Where all karate weapon, were like farming inplements? if thats spelt right. Please give me some info. Thank you.

 

peace

[Shotokan_Fighter]

what do you mean weapons?? like bo staff ect??

[Guitar_lover]

yeah basicly, bo stuff, nuncaucka. If they are karate weapons or have they been intoduced to karate or sterotyed into karate weapon?

[Shotokan_Fighter]

if so i havnt ever trained with weapons in shotokan karate, and i dont think they do either

[Guitar_lover]

Yeah i knew shotokan did not train with weapons, well ones that i know of here in england. Wondering if any other styles did. Or if karate ever did have weapons at one stage

[Shotokan_Fighter]

sorry man, i couldnt tell ya

[Radok]

Mine teaches Bo, nunchucu, coma, tonfa, and sai.

[AndrewGreen]

Most Okinawan styles do weapons of some sort

 

Some Shotokan branches teach weapons, Funakoshi did

[iolair]

Where all karate weapon, were like farming inplements? if thats spelt right. Please give me some info. Thank you.

 

peace

Nunchaku was a rice flail.

 

Tonfa was a handle of something agricultural, but I can't remember what...

 

Sai someone told me was a tool for making holes in the ground to put seeds in, though I'm not too convinced.

 

Bo and Jo are just staves - they could have been used for walking, been the handles of farming tools (spade, rake, hoe) or come from assorted other sources I guess.

[major_motoko]

hiya Guitar_lover.. fellow Brit!

 

I think it's an England thing.. very few dojos here seem to teach weapons, whereas in US it seems like everywhere does!

 

I am learning Bo and Sai off my own back, with the help of my Sempai, but my Wado club does not study weapons AT ALL

 

I went to a specific Iaido club to learn the samurai sword. My instructor was ex European Iaido champion which was amazing and very humbling experiance! Some of those guys trained with live blades (I have a blunt Iaito much safer )

 

Yes most of the Okinawan weapons were previously farming implements.

 

Kama, sickles to cut crops.

 

nunchuku - rice flailers.

 

Tonfa - handles of rice grinding stones.

 

Sai - This is a disputed one, anything from rice seed planters to Budhist symbols. Certainly a good weapon against other weapons such as Bo and Sword.

 

I guess the Bo and Jo are pretty universal, many cultures have used sticks for fighting.

 

Then there is also the Eku (oar) and many others.

 

Check out this site for info:

 

http://www.karate.org.yu/okinawa_kobudo.htm

 

And if you are interested in doing some weapons in the UK, check out this site for Kendo, Iaido and Jodo.

 

British Kendo Association http://www.kendo.org.uk/

 

motoko