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How many martial arts weapons do..
montanajoe
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..you own? Not replicas for display only,but those that could be put to use?
Are you proficient with them?
Are you proficient with them?
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these are nunchaku;
sai
tonfa
swords
staff full, 3/4, 1/2
3sectional staff
kama's
still waiting to meet bushmaster and see if i could learn something [:D]
if you have trained in all that, I doubt I have anything to show you that you don't already know. [^]
never know, i learned one move at a time from tricks of others, when vhs came along i would watch movies in slow mo to pick up moves and integrated them into a kata
i would start out with 1 pair, and have another tucked under my gi, after a few minutes pull out the other pair during a behind the back hand off, was always a crowd pleaser, and blind folded during demonstrations
I carry it in places that a pistol would send me to jail.
My skills really stink![:D]
Peace
Dan
these are NUNchucks;
these are nunchaku;
I had to zoom in on the NunChucks to get a good look. LOL! Awesome![:D]
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Staff.
I carry it in places that a pistol would send me to jail.
Gandalf?
I have a 6'6" St Croix fast action rod that will put a Mepps spinner in your eye at 30 yards.
Is that a preban rod !!!!!![;)]
Still have a set of wooden numbchucks, haven't played with them in years but I could still hurt someone with them [:D]
Even if you are proficient with all.
Ich! Ni! San! Yo! etc.
We did very little sparring but lots of kata. I didn't like kata I wanted to spar. I wanted to practice street fighting.
And we worked with weapons all the time.
We had the bo, or the long staff. We had the sai. We had nunchuks.
One more, can't remember what it was.
Most of the guys had bought all the weapons. Not me.
I hated weapons work and tried to avoid it.
One day I asked Sensei, "What is the deal with this little Okinawan rice hook, the sai? Am I supposed to carry it in my car and use it in a street fight?"
He said "No, Grasshopper. There is so much you do not understand."
I finally bailed out of that school because I just didn't want to work out with those damn weapons.
It was the only karate school in my little town.
quote:Originally posted by montanajoe
these are nunchaku;no, those are what they sell at cheap strip mall "martial arts"/yoga stores.
these are nunchaku.
you can tell they weren't just sitting in a drawer.
you gotta quit dropping them in the gravel,you're rubbing the paint off,,,[:0][;)]
I trained in a lot of the 'kans; Shotokan, Taekwondo, Hapkido and spent a year watching dirt being made into beautiful swords. Navy brats have lotsa time on their hands[:D]
Most "ninja" toys are for distraction or intimidation, Shuriken here are worthless; stab a steak with a fork, then a knife-which steak survived?
once you get a little proficient with the nunchucks, the only place you hit yourself is on the inside of the knee when passing thru the legs, or on the fingertips. when you drop them they fall straight down to the floor.
if you are hitting yourself on the head you really do not know what the hell you are doing.
next time you practice switching hands with 1 pair, try it in reverse [:D]
Now the only things on display are the spear and ax with my chain mail.
Too old to live...too young to die...
quote:Originally posted by Big Sky Redneck
Always called them NUMB chucks because after whacking yourself in the back of the head a few times your body starts to go numb [:D]
Still have a set of wooden numbchucks, haven't played with them in years but I could still hurt someone with them [:D]
HA!! I always called 'em DUMB-chuks because you could knock yourself stoopid with those damn things, and do all sorts of other stoopid stuff! I got a quality set of 'dumb'-chuks once. They were heavy ones too. Within the first 20 seconds I'd smashed the lamp off the ceiling, busted a hole in the closet door and crushed my left testicle! About a millisecond later I walloped myself upside the head so hard I heard an echo, which prompted me to let go of them whereupon they ricocheted off the ceiling with a giant crash and then my head again!
I was so pissed I jumped up, picked 'em up and, without any of the Bruce Lee S#, swung them overhand as hard as I could into the floor trying to bust 'em. Nope! Ricocheted off the floor and smacked me right in the forehead!! "ARRRRRRGGGHHHHH...DAMMIT!!!"...as I fell backwards, clutching my face, through the closet door! All I heard (aside from the ringing in my ear) was mom screaming "WHAT THE...F#...IS GOING ON IN THERE??? JEEZ-US KRIST!!" When she flung the door open I tried to act composed and respond (all Bruce Lee/ninja like), but only managed some unintelligible squeaking and wheezing from the fetal position on the closet floor.
I dunno what those dumb-chuks things are for, but a fella can do one hell of a fine job kicking his own * with 'em, that's for sure!
Good thing you didn't practice with a Butterfly knife![;)][:D]
Always called them NUMB chucks because after whacking yourself in the back of the head a few times your body starts to go numb [:D]
Still have a set of wooden numbchucks, haven't played with them in years but I could still hurt someone myself with them [:D]
There, I fixed it for you[:D]