#martial Arts Weapons

[theblindninja]

Nunchaku precision by @楚儿霸王🔥

[kungfuwushuworld]

Dao and Guandao by amazing Sifu Han Liang 🥰🔥

[mafubrah]

Sword and buckler vs Katana and wakizashi

I love everything this channel produces, but this is a fantastic display of swordsmanship.

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Modern day YouTube au where Xie Lian is infamous on the internet for his catastrophic cooking channel.

[buried-in-stardust]

OP is wearing a mamianqun (馬面裙) and using a dao (刀; one-edged blade)

[temeyes]

dad-daughter bonding ft. ghost and his bubba girl

[gettingcomfyinyourwalls]

DP x DC prompt #199

Danny gets stuck in the DC universe and decides to make a name for himself. But as Danny Fenton. Because sometimes his human side is just as dangerous as his ghost side.

[we-are-monk]

Simple weapons include clubs, spears, staves, daggers, and crossbows.

Martial weapons include most swords, fancy polearms, traditional bows, and axes.

Exotic weapons are usually things only found in a specific culture.

[elumish]

Some Things To Consider When Writing Weapons Training

Your character will hurt. Even if they don't get hit, it can be exhausting training, especially if they're just starting. It can be a weird set of muscles to use, and things like their shoulders will hurt if they do what a lot of people do and tense up while holding the weapon.

They will drop the weapon. There are a lot of reasons why people drop weapons--because the weapon is awkward to hold or the person isn't used to holding them, because it gets hit out of the person's hand, because their own hand gets hit, etc--but it happens.

People get hit by accident all the time--including the person holding the weapon. When I've done jō practice, I consider it a success if I don't hit myself with it while I'm practicing. And even when doing controlled sparring or paired katas, people still end up hitting each other, especially on places like the hand.

Practice weapons still hurt. Depending on what you're doing, they're usually made of either wood or rubber rather than metal, but just because they're not metal, it doesn't mean they don't hurt. Bruises are really standard, especially if you're practicing something like knife fighting where you're doing a lot of hand-to-hand blocking.

The goal of training is not to hurt your opponent. People who (intentionally or through carelessness) hurt their sparring partners are bad at training and will probably be kicked out of it or at least get a very strong talking to. Good training will also teach them how to train without getting hurt and strongly discourage doing things in a dangerous way.

What they wear will differ widely depending on the discipline. HEMA and fencing tend to have a fair amount of protective gear (helmet, etc.), as does kendo, while disciplines like aikidō, iaidō, and jūjutsu are more likely to have people wearing a gi or hakama. This will impact how they feel about hitting opponents--it's always riskier to hit someone in a place with no protective gear.

Some weapons' training is primarily defensive, and some is primarily offensive, and some is both. Some training (knife defense, gun defense) is primarily about disarming someone with one of those weapons, where the actual use of the weapon is just as a training tool. In those cases, the specifics of the attack are usually emphasized less than the specifics of the defense. HEMA and fencing are much more offense-focused, with the goal being more about landing a hit. In forms like that (or in a similar fictional form), you'll see the mentality that the best defense is a good offense, as opposed to the mentality that the best defense is a good defense (or the best defense is running away).

Knowing one form of weapons training is (often) helpful in learning another. Even while they differ a fair amount, different weapons styles can often use similar patterns in terms of strikes, blocks, and steps. Part of this is that there are only so many useful places to hit a person and only so many ways to step. There are other things that are fairly universal as well, like awareness of your blade and your opponent's blade, awareness of your body, and awareness of relative distance.

[tentacion3099]

The ancient battle of archetypes: Swordsman vs Clubber

[theblindninja]

quartaydenaya 🥰🔥🥰

[queenofthequillandink]

I think a massive facet of Tim's secret identity should be that everyone in Gotham knows that if Tim had Bat Skills, he would simply be a benevolent supervillain instead. A feral little gremlin who would take out the kneecaps of every boomer trying to embezzle charity funds. Like, this is the bitch that's constantly ready to fight God in a Denny's parking lot. He would be out there committing murder every time someone tried to rezone Gotham's voting districts again; he'd just show up in their dark living room with anime eyeshine like, "oh? And you thought you could get away with this? 🔪"

[ruibaozha]

How many of these Qiang ( 槍 ) moves can you recognize from Nezha Conquers the Dragon King(1979)? This type of spear is recognized as a “King of Weapons” for its reliability and versatility.

The shaft of the spear can vary between 6 feet to more than 15 feet in length depending on if it’s meant for individual use or a battle formation like the Qing era Green Standard Army ( 綠營 ).

Spears like this build the foundation of one specific form of Chinese martial arts called Xingyiquan ( 形意拳 ) that is then classified even further as martial arts that focus on the user’s spiritual or mental state; or Nei jia ( 內家 ). Xingyiquan is significant in how a majority of the associated actions are linear and explosive in power from short range.

Noticeably this post lacks citations, this is because I want to encourage everyone to look further into this type of martial arts themselves. Even a simple Google search presents many good resources on this.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

斩马刀zhanmadao in tang dynasty by 含亮老师

[buried-in-stardust]

A jian (劍; double-edged sword) demonstration

[eng by me]