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Athena
Orange Belt
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
Posts: 125
Styles: Yoga, Tai chi, drunken fist
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I like the staff, I train myself in it alot...but there's a reason why i like it XD a staff can be found in alot of places..brooms,rakes,shovels, sticks(branches) fallen off of trees, bats,hockey sticks,golf clubs...et cetera (ect)
you just have to learn to to adjust quickly to different weight balances.
also knives and short swords (I actually carved a wooden sword abot the size of a *estimates* wakizashi?) are quite usefull *nods*
this one time there was a tree branch about as high as my shoulder that was fresh fallen (i mean the leaves were still green and not wilted ^.^) and I swung that around until all the leaves fell off XD it helped me alot i think. yes i know..i have weird ways of training myself -_-
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Tkd_MMA
Yellow Belt
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Posts: 37
Styles: TKD MMA karate
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| i agree staffs are the best for starting. Sias are also good for starting. thats what i started with |
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armanox
Orange Belt
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Posts: 173
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Styles: Shorin (Kobayashi) Ryu Karatedo, Aikikai Aikido
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| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Tkd_MMA wrote: |
| i agree staffs are the best for starting. Sias are also good for starting. thats what i started with |
I don't know.....I've hit myself a few times with sais...and gotten cut by them...I wouldn't recommend them for a starting weapon.
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PSBN Doug
KF VIP
Joined: 04 Nov 2001
Posts: 3754
Location: Houston, TX
Styles: Kuk Sool Won
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| TigerCrane wrote: |
| For a beginner, I would strongly recommend the staff. It's a good prerequisite for lots of other weapons. |
I agree. You can apply it to short staff, rope staff, spear, even sword.
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Montana
Orange Belt
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 182
Location: Formerly Montana, now Spokane, WA
Styles: Shorin Ryu Matsumura Kenpo & Kobudo
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| Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| armanox wrote: |
| I don't know.....I've hit myself a few times with sais...and gotten cut by them...I wouldn't recommend them for a starting weapon. |
 Um...how do you cut yourself with a sai? They don't have a "blade".
I've dropped the point of a sai on my foot before (sooooo embarassing!) and sliced the bottom of my foot really badly with a kama blade (don't ask....  ) and whacked various parts of my anatomy with nunchauku and even bruised a rib once with a bo.
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armanox
Orange Belt
Joined: 24 Apr 2006
Posts: 173
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Styles: Shorin (Kobayashi) Ryu Karatedo, Aikikai Aikido
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| Montana wrote: |
| armanox wrote: |
| I don't know.....I've hit myself a few times with sais...and gotten cut by them...I wouldn't recommend them for a starting weapon. |
Um...how do you cut yourself with a sai? They don't have a "blade".
I've dropped the point of a sai on my foot before (sooooo embarassing!) and sliced the bottom of my foot really badly with a kama blade (don't ask.... ) and whacked various parts of my anatomy with nunchauku and even bruised a rib once with a bo. |
Pulling the sai back into the chambered position incorrectly....took the prong into my ribs...nasty metal scratches bleed...
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Montana
Orange Belt
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 182
Location: Formerly Montana, now Spokane, WA
Styles: Shorin Ryu Matsumura Kenpo & Kobudo
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Ah...OK...a scratch. Yeah, I've done that before also.
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dete
Orange Belt
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
Posts: 138
Location: gotham city
Styles: full contact Karate and grappling
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the ones that are popular with self-training seems to be
Nunchaku & Butterfly knives.
next is I think something like throwing knives & escrima sticks.
add a bo/jo in there too 
for me the nunchaku is easier to learn than the butterfly knife, but
once I got the hang of the butterfly knife... I'm all about it now,
since you can do many of the nunchaku movements for the
butterfly knife anyway!
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Athena
Orange Belt
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
Posts: 125
Styles: Yoga, Tai chi, drunken fist
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I'm not too good at nunchaku XD I am a total beginner and still have to get the movements down pact. >.>;; I've tried a homemade ropedart..was fun for a while..then I hit myself and now i have a small scar on the bridge of my nose XD
...wonder if I still have that...
oh yea... DON'T START OUT WITH A ROPEDART!
they are hard >.< extremely hard O__O
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The BB of C
KF Sempai
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
Posts: 529
Location: New York
Styles: Cannon Style, Kuk Sool Won, Isshin-ryu
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| Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Which weapon to choose |
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| I'm 15 years old and im home alot. And i was thinking about learning to use a weapon. (staff, nunchucku, etc) And i was wondering what is a good begginer weapon to try |
First, may I ask why you want to learn weapons? I'm just asking because it can effect which one you should start out with.
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