What weapons bore you?

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Originally posted by FUZZYJ692000



If you look at alot of the weapons such as the chucks and sais they were actually used as farm tools at one point. The sais were used for things like picking up hay,

This is absolute false. The Sai was NEVER a farm tool.
The sai were used by Okinawan "law enforcement" in the same way as the Jutte was used by the Japanese. (Jutte is has only one prong where the Sai has 2)


Originally posted by FUZZYJ692000

the chucks were used to beat and break rice when they were still in the plant. They were hung and every once in a while the person would slice the bag or hit it wrong. They soon realized that they could be used as weapons. A little history 101 here I know, trying to keep it simple.

This is also a common misinterpretation of the Nunchaku.
They were used as part of an Okinawan bridal for horses as can plainly be seen by old versions that are in the Okinawan Karate Museum in Naha.
Also they are not merely a "whacking" instrument per say but were used for trapping and pinching limbs and weapons.
You can thank the "chop-socky" styles for the Bruce Lee-sque type movements.
If you look at the old Okinawa kata for Nunchaku they are really different than the "disco-flaming-chucks" kata you see these days.
 

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