Your Favorite "Martial Art" Weapon

[Shadow Law]

listen Pal, jusT take some time to sleep thiS anger off and go to beD.

For those of you who just read that line, What capital letters?

Heh. Cute. I'll give you that.

Talk to anyone who has deployed and show me someone without PTSD and I'll show you a liar.

I was never angry though. Annoyed perhaps, but for me that's a far lower rung on the ladder than actual anger. Believe me, anger involves a lot more swearing, then a lapse into a rather calm state where I feel particularly violent. I wasn't even close to that.


And for a more on topic note: fixed blade knives over folding any day.

that was probibly not the best humor for this subject but anyway I'm just giving you some grief, no hard feelings.

 

[ffxfriek]

katana

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Does a saber count?

Yes. The Sabre has an entire fencing style devoted to it, and it represented the last commonly used western sword. It's derived from the eastern Scimitar, though the weapon gradually became less curved and lighter as technology progressed. It's actually a weapon associated with Hungary, as many of the styles and conventions used with the weapon were developed by Hungarian fencing masters (Where most of the styles and conventions of the "Small Sword" as exlimpified by the Foil and Epee were developed by Italian or French fencing masters).

 

[Samurai Goomba]

The problem by saying "Martial Art" weapon is that the wording is... well, its crap. Martial Arts simply means the art of fighting, so any melee weapon applies. So the weapons for this thread could be any European weapon as well. That said, I'll break it down because I like many weapons.

West: Zweihander
East: Katana
Two-Handed: Naginata
Stealth: Shinobigatana

Was that the nicest way you could put that, I mean really. Anyway I couldn't of just said weapon because thats been done hundreds of times before and people would go straight to guns, I hate guns. Guns have no fair play with them. A man can defend himself from a sword with many different basic weapons such as the staff and it also takes honed skills to use.

There is no such thing as fair play in true combat, which is what martial arts train you for. I train in use of a rifle to save not only MY life but the lives of the people I deploy with from people who use bombs to attack us. You want to talk about fair? Tell that to the 31 people who didn't make it back from my last deployment because they were killed by roadside bombs. Tell them that using a firearm to protect yourself isn't fair.

That's what I thought.

I agree that people who think guns don't belong in combat are kind of ignoring the brutality of real-life combat, but come on. Martial arts don't all teach you to fight fair. I'm no Marine or anything, but there are a lot of things I learned from martial arts that aren't "fair" in the slightest. Like taking a pencil and stabbing it into the other guy's ear canal, or unleashing a "groin rip." In my experience, most of the martial arts I've done just teach you how to think and move. Some of them follow the concept of "fairness," but many do not.

Do you really think you'll have your full kit on you when 3 muggers try to jump you in an alley? Odds are that you'll end up using the very martial arts to defend yourself that you are slandering here.

Martial arts= Arts of Battle. Nothing else, or at least that's all they should be. Glock-Fu should definitely be a part of that, but I think it's important to prepare for the possibility that guns/weapons won't be available.

Oh, and to the poster above you (the guy you quoted): Guns take skill to use, and there ARE ways to defend against them. Namely, running away, keeping low and/or stabbing the gun user in the back or slitting his throat. Just my opinions.

 

[Baonec]

Kusanagi and shadow gauntlets.

 

[salbarragan]

Bo Staff. Hands down. It has to be the easiest weapon to improvise on the fly and just looks awesome as it's flying through the air up until it hits you in the face.

 

[Higurashi]

My fist.

Read the post, please.

Anyway.

The three-section staff is where it's AT, son! That weapon doesn't get nearly enough coverage, dammit.

This is true. I liked its representation in Huo Yuan Jia.
Since we are to have some experience before saying anything though, I will have go for the Bō or the Jō. Staves are "The Grandfather of all Weapons" after all. So I kind of like the shorter ones, but then, I haven't had the chance to train with the longer. Tried the bang, but not the gun or chang gun.
The dao is rather nice too. Swords are. I need to move out of here and find the dojos. ^_^

Edit: What the hell, people? Stick to the topic of the thread! Simple forum etiquette. Geez.

 

[Crocky]

1st choice: Chuck Norris

2nd Choice: Nunchaku

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

My hands, since I'm legally allowed to carry them anywhere and everywhere. It's a good deal if you think about it.

I've just read the part about you not using hands as a weapon. It doesn't have to be deadly to be a weapon. You can hurt somebody with it? It's a weapon. You can incapacitate easily? It's a weapon.

As for a non-hand weapon I'd have to go with a shinai since I'm planning on using it later.

 

[Beowulf DW]

The eku. If you can learn to use one, then you can kick ass with an oar. That is awesome.

Or a staff. Any kind of staff. Bo, gun (Chinese staff), Quarterstaff, Buck-and-a-Quarter quarterstaff...

 

[pffh]

A sabre or a rapier since I actually know how to use those and wouldn't just end up hurting myself trying to use an unfamiliar weapon.

 

[Shadow Law]

I should have added a poll because it seems that it has been narrowed down to the Bo (staff) and the sabre/rapier

 

[Valukar]

Bo staff. (I love how people are saying 'bow staff'.)

 

[GonzoGamer]

As a Jeet Kun Do student, I've come across many different weapons from many different styles and while Bruce Lee's answer would be whatever limb the opponent isn't expecting, I really dig the whip. Knife fighting is more fun to practice but if you really know how to use a whip, nobody can touch you.

 

[axia777]

My fist.

What they said.....

As a Jeet Kun Do student, I've come across many different weapons from many different styles and while Bruce Lee's answer would be whatever limb the opponent isn't expecting, I really dig the whip. Knife fighting is more fun to practice but if you really know how to use a whip, nobody can touch you.

Yah, unless they can take the pain. Then they can touch you a lot. With their fist.

Does a saber count?

Sure it does. Western sword fighting techniques are martial arts too.

 

[Noble Korhedron]

I'd say mine would be to dual wield a katana and a wakizashi together, as most martial arts use nothing resembling a shield, apart from handguards and those weird defensive sword thingys Michaelangelo uses in Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles...

 

[GruntOwner]

Whereas I'm usually against japanese blades, I just can't say no to a nagamaki.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

My fist.

Read the post, please.

Anyway.

The three-section staff is where it's AT, son! That weapon doesn't get nearly enough coverage, dammit.

Boxing is a western martial art.

And Chinese boxing is an eastern one, pre-dating the western version I believe? Not better in my opinion though...

I'll have to go for either Rapier,

Dao (big or small, but i'll show this one

or Nodachi

As if the 'tache wasn't epic enough, and you would love to say that he isn't fast with it, but i've seen the bastard in motion, very quick and very impressive.