why weapons?

[Icetuete]

i am interested in asian weapon arts but probably wont have the chance to practice one at the moment...

 

my question is why do u guys personally practice with weapons?

 

goal is to find out what i could get outa it

 

opinions and personal expiriences are appreciated.

 

thanks in advance!

[ninjanurse]

Weapons skills can be applied to unarmed combat as

 

weapons are an extension of your arms. In addition, with properly applied skills almost anything can become a weapon.

 

[Martial_Artist]

I train with weapons because the badguys are going to use weapons. I train with weapons because I "cheat" in a street fight. I train with weapons because at the end of a day I will go home to my wife and children. I train with weapons because it is smart to train with weapons.

[Tombstone]

For fun. It spices things up sometimes.

[aznkarateboi]

it works ur muscles a lot

[CodyydoC]

all of those reasons are very good. but i agree with martial arts. i would like to come home my family and friends

[Icetuete]

so u primarily train in weapons for self defense purpose? may i ask whether you do carry ur weapon with u when u go out or do u use whatever u can get when it comes to a dangerous situation? what weapon do u use for this purpose?

[CodyydoC]

signs that say "No Weapons Allowed" dont really make any sense

 

EVERYTHING CAN BE USED AS A WEAPON!!!.

 

of course not everything will be as a effective as otherthings

 

if ur in a restaurant and someone is pickin a fight and there's no way to avoid it theres probably gonna be a knife, a chair, a fork, a plate, possibly scalding coffee, bottles, etc. etc. etc.

 

in the mall; most jewelry, trash cans, cologne or perfume (spray it in their eyes),

 

in the hardware store;

 

these are a just a few examples

[Drunken Monkey]

part of it is because i want to learn everything in my martial art. i don't want to one of them kids who go to a class once a week and say they are masters.

 

part of it is because i feel like if i don't learn it and pass it on, some day it will be lost. every time i think of things like this it really saddens me.

 

i'm a chinese guy and my chinese is not brilliant. i can speak it fluently but i cannot read or write it. i'm going to guess that my kids will not be able to read or write it either (unless i force them to go and learn) and whether or not they speak it is also questionable. imagine what their kids will be like...

 

the same is true with a lot of things, especially martial arts. it is a skill, a thing that has developed over time and we are privilaged to learn them, so we are obliged to learn them well, which includes all of the aspects, be it weapons, meditaion, whatever.

 

we like to defend our arts in forums like this but what better way to defend it than by making sure we learn as much as we can and pass on the best that we can. we have to make sure that future generations are not learning inferior versions of this thing that we love.

 

this is why i hate some aspects of the chinese culture. the old "closed door" policies has caused a lot confusion and arguments within a great many styles and i am positive that this has created a lot of opportunites for bad teaching. bad teaching in turn leads to bad martial arts being passed on. how long until our arts turns into nothing more than a dance? how many of our arts are already victims of this?

 

so why do i learn/train in weapons?

 

because it is my duty.

[angel]

CAn i have a site name than emphasizes on martial arts weapons and how to use them please?

 

Angel

 

Turkey, Shotokan 6th Kyu