Most Useless Martial Art Weapon

[Danman1]

How about just martial arts? Unless you can deflect bullets with our wrist and teeth.
My style is Glock.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I've never seen a group of people who don't know anything about this subject talk about it this long. I'm expecting someone to link his argument to a YouTube video of a Batman cartoon any minute to prove his point. We actually have people in this thread who believe in:
1. Bruce Lee
2. Nunchaku
3. Ninjas
and that
4. Swords are useless.
5. Knives are more useful when thrown than held.

I can't wait to see what comes up next.

You know what, since you're apparently impervious to tongue-in-cheek references, I think I'll do just that.

Spoiler

Clearly, the best martial arts weapon of all time is the blimp. That proves it.

 

[Break]

All of em with the possible exception of the Sai. Which are a nice little design, could be vastly improved but hey so can most weapons. It has a nice practical useage and although ineffective against western medieval weapons (8 lbs of steel breaks arms)was perfect against eastern blades.

Deadliest Warriors is pretty good and the blunt traumas been fine. The edged weapons tests particularly the Spatha v Ninjato (Spartan v Ninja) sword test was rigged. The ninja struck a shallow hanging pig at the hips at the weakest part of the spine. The Spartan took sloppy seconds at the shoulder height deweighted hanging pig carcass. Bearing in mind the first test showed the spatha punching through the targets front and BENDING on the steel support rod at the back of the spine. So the ninjato can cut you a bit, the spatha can break through your spine. Geuss which one won ... sigh.

They... What's the point of that test? Ninja's swords were... They were usually little more than a sharpened length of iron. Getting into a straight fight was not something a ninja would've wanted to do, and they would've been prepared to discard something as cumbersome as a short sword if the mission called for it. Carrying a high-quality weapon was simply not a particularly good idea. And a sword certainly wasn't a Spartan's primary weapon... What an odd comparison.

 

[Abedeus]

I'd say that a spear.

Yeah. It's cool, it's long up to 4-5 meters and they hurt like hell if they hit.

IF they hit. It's a medium-range close combat weapon, but anything closer (sword range or shorter) and they are just a big, heavy staff that is hard to balance and swing around.

The second someone blocks it or dodges, you are dead. Unless you have a second weapon, but then you might just have 2 weapons - a longbow and a normal sword.

 

[Cheesebob]

Shaolin Spade

 

[Private Custard]

Well I've never seen a three section staff used so it seems a pretty daft weapon to me.

On topic...oh I don't know. Let's say tri-section staff? Someone want to show me a video of it being used properly? Then I'll change my stance on that.

This guy knows what he's doing, and demonstrates nice and slowly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2uyHK-kXrA

I've seen the Shaolin Monks Wheel of Life show a few times and seeing the tri-section staff at full speed is pretty immense, very flexible too.

 

[Psepha]

Well I've never seen a three section staff used so it seems a pretty daft weapon to me.

On topic...oh I don't know. Let's say tri-section staff? Someone want to show me a video of it being used properly? Then I'll change my stance on that.

This guy knows what he's doing, and demonstrates nice and slowly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2uyHK-kXrA

I've seen the Shaolin Monks Wheel of Life show a few times and seeing the tri-section staff at full speed is pretty immense, very flexible too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61gz1uI2Fwk&feature=

Here's an actual sparring session between a three-section staff and a normal staff. From watching it I assume this particular sparring session is choreographed, but can you imagine actually going up against that guy?

 

[EdgeyX]

nunchucks cause u could punch some one and it proply have hurt more and u have got more chance of hitting you than the othere person

 

[Unstoppable Wall]

For killing purposes? shuriken easily. For any other purpose hmmm I'd have to go with the scythe, yes i know it will kill you, when it hits, but its design is about as practical as a gold-plated grenade

 

[dmase]

The fake abs... because not everybody can be as built as bruce lee or jackie chan.

 

[Unstoppable Wall]

Nunchuks when handled by anyone who isn't Bruce Lee.

At that point they become weapons of mass destruction.

Yeah but in all fairness you could give Bruce Lee a spork and a half eaten carton of Yogurt and he could kill 20 people within a minute using only them...

maybe, but he still got owned by a gun... no disrespect though, he is still a legend

Also, thats his son Brandon your thinking of comrade, Bruce slipped into a coma and died, suspected cause of death was poisoning

 

[Tirin]

I would personally go with the bō staff. Despite decent range and whatnot, it doesn't seem like it would be effective against a bladed weapon unless wielded by an absolute master. By comparison, masters of bladed weapons, such as the samurai, could cut people entirely in half. I doubt there would be any trouble there with a wooden staff. Metal or metal-plated might pose a problem, but in my opinion, it may not be too much of one.

 

[lotusflwr]

I think those fans that you see people using in various movies/anime are probably the most useless... I mean, hitting someone over the head with a fan? Is that a real martial discipline?

Maybe it's been poorly-depicted, but every time I see someone wielding a fan it just cracks me up.

 

[Nukey]

numchucks your more likely to hurt yourself then your target.

 

[Joshimodo]

Shuriken. The chances of getting a killing or incapacitating blow are next to none existant.

They're not designed to be killing weapons, more like disabling (aimed for neck, arms, lower abdomen and legs), and distraction.

Tri-Section staff.

 

[BlackJack47]

Tanfas

Did you mean tonfas? I find them just awesome, they are very effective, in fact Police forces around the world use them, but they are sometimes called nightsticks.

I would say the Jo, A jo is a 5-foot pole whilst the Bo, is 6-ft, whilst there are other pole weapons used in Kali that are like 2-foot...So why 5-foot? I just don't get it?

 

[Baonec]

If you've seen house of flying daggers SLEEVES, Most useless weapon's ever.

 

[Iron Mal]

I would have to say the whip, it is powerful in the hands of a heavily tained individual but it requires a lot of practice and precision to use due to it's uncontrolable and unwieldy nature.

You'll either completely miss your target or flay yourself trying.