Strange weapon ._.

[HmorenoM]

Hello everyone! Well, i was around YT and i found this...

My first thought was that it was a MMORPG epic weapon but... I had to post it because my ignorance can't be forever. So, the question

Can someone tell me the name (and some history) of this weapon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2tja...ZPN74A&index=2

[David Jamieson]

Yep...that's a weird one alright.
Not sure what it is called. thanks for sharing.

[Bernard]

My guess is its a precursor to this:

[JamesC]

My guess is its a precursor to this:

If memory serves, subitai( or O) once created a form for the star trek weapon

[MightyB]

My guess is its a precursor to this:

this made me snort a little. If I would've been drinking something, I'm sure I would have laughed it out my nose.

[taai gihk yahn]

looks like this on steroids:



I learned this from Chan Tai San, he called it a sim cha; later on, another sifu of mine referred to it as a "sun moon blade"

[David Jamieson]

It reminds me of a hack saw or buck saw without the serrated teeth.

[GeneChing]

If memory serves, subitai( or O) once created a form for the star trek weapon

It wasn't Subitai. It was one of our mutual KF brothers. We've discussed it here.

[HmorenoM]

So that weapon is not traditional... it's not even modern... it's futurist.

so we had traditional and modern martial arts, but now we have futuristic and alien martial arts... great...

[GeneChing]

It's all about futuristic weapons.

[David Jamieson]

futurist?

[SevenStar]

what in the Sam hell is that thing? you can compete with made up weapons?

[Kellen Bassette]

It's all about futuristic weapons.

In the future the monk spade will reign supreme.

[HmorenoM]

... can you compete with made up weapons?

Same question here....

[GeneChing]

what in the Sam hell is that thing? you can compete with made up weapons?

A lot of the weapons used in TCMA are actually fairly recent inventions, and I'm not just talking about the wushu ones. But in regards to the wushu ones, you'll have to read my last cover story, The Southern Sword of Wushu, in our MAR+APR 2013.

In the future the monk spade will reign supreme.

Haaaaa. Thanks for that Kellen. Don't forget the link. Although, as I allude to in my MAY+JUNE 2012 cover story, The Spade, the Whip and the Mountain Gate, the monk spade maybe be made up too.

As for the weapon that started this thread, I'd love to hear the story behind it. There are a lot of crazy folk weapons in CMA so I wouldn't go so far to discount it completely yet. It really looks absurd, however, so who knows? Folk weapons are a huge untapped field of research.