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    Question Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story What is this weapon?

    I know this movie wasn't very acurate and stuff but I really liked it but anyway that's not what I came here to ask. I don't know how many of you have seen the movie, and I'm sorry, I've tried but I just can't find the scene onlin. But there's this scene in the beginning of the movie, while Bruce is still in Hong Kong, in some dancing club I think and these two, I think British, soldiers end up fighting with him. Anyway, he uses a weapon that I've never seen but found it really interesting, I suppose they're kind of like nunchaku but they are different, imagine a nunchaku with small metal sticks at the end instead of long ones and in between them is a very long chain, not a short one like the nunchaku. I don't know if my description is very good but hopefully someone here will know what I'm talking about and let me know about this weapon. I'm going crazy here lol, what is it?

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    It's called a chain whip. Very common Chinese weapon. You can find one in the Martial Arts Mart catalog. Search YouTube for examples of it being used.

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    http://www.martialartsmart.net/Exotic_Weapons.html
    If you scroll down towards the center of the page, there are two nine-section and two seven-section chain whips.
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    wasnt the one in the movie just regualar chain links tho? if i remember correctly.

    not like traditional chinese chain whips. more like small nunchaku links with a handle and a small weight at one end.

    i liked that weapon scene too...
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    it reminded me of a kama and chain but without the kama...
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    Quote Originally Posted by PangQuan View Post
    wasnt the one in the movie just regualar chain links tho? if i remember correctly.

    not like traditional chinese chain whips. more like small nunchaku links with a handle and a small weight at one end.

    i liked that weapon scene too...
    Yeah I guess it wasnŽt a traditional weapon after all. It did seem more like small nunchakus with a long chain, oh well I found it really interesting, the scene was great. I just thought that was an actual weapon. Like PanQuan said it reminded me of a kama and chain but without the kama. oh well. I guess IŽll never know.
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    i was really fond of that weapon when i saw it too...

    maybe i will make one. should be easy enough.
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    Just going from memory here, but wasn't the weapon he used basically what is known in Japan as a manriki gusari? That is my recollection ...

    Here is some info on Japanese chain weapons, including the kusari gama (aka kama with chain): http://www.yorkjitsu.org/jitsu/weapons/chain/

    Not going to promote other martial arts equiment dealers on this website, but this weapon can be purchased from many different places for less than $20.
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    I can't remember that scene

    There's only one thing that I really remember about Dragon. It was Lauren Holly in lingerie.

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    Gene you sly dog you

    This is pretty similar to what we are talking about

    http://www.extremely-sharp.com/es/images/20004a.jpg

    i also like the one at the bottom of this picture.
    http://www.ninjaa.com/minor.weapons.jpg

    EDIT: though if i'm not mistaken the one in the movie was a bit more "sleak" on the hand grip and weight. they seemed to be palm sized and of a rounded wood possibly.

    i need to go put that movie in the DVD player and find out......maybe later
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    Wasn't it the flushing handle and chain of a toilet? LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by Li Kao View Post
    Just going from memory here, but wasn't the weapon he used basically what is known in Japan as a manriki gusari? That is my recollection ...

    Here is some info on Japanese chain weapons, including the kusari gama (aka kama with chain): http://www.yorkjitsu.org/jitsu/weapons/chain/

    Not going to promote other martial arts equiment dealers on this website, but this weapon can be purchased from many different places for less than $20.

    You know what, I think you got it, I have never heard of this weapon but reading its description on the site you gave the link to I think it might be a manriki gusari.
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  14. [QUOTE=GeneChing;766658]There's only one thing that I really remember about Dragon. It was Lauren Holly in lingerie.

    I couldn't have said it better myself...
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    Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. What style did Bruces' opponent do?

    I was not sure if Bruce had already modified his Wing Chun by the time he fought Master Wong Jack Man(who I am told the fight is modeled after for the movie), or if he had added other arts by that time back in the day.

    Does anyone know the style that his opponent was using? Though it is obvious it is not Wing Chun, does anyone know what the other man is doing?(besides losing that is)

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