Thread: What's your fav MA weapon and why?

A good filipino bolo knife with a sharpened puno, because it works well at all ranges of combat. A close second is my Mayawoto Musashi Katana, but carrying either around will get you into trouble, or at least,get you some weird looks.
Mahalo, Jeremy

To be generic, I would say knives. All sizes, weights and designs;( though I'm not a fan of little pocket-style or swiss-army-style knives).
I have two that I prefer to all others.
My bowie with a 14" blade, and my Anderson locking straight razor. Since I'm constantly doing field work during the summers, both of these weapons are multipurpose. The bowie knife works better than a machette, or ghurka and my locking straight razor can cut through just about anything the bowie knife can't. Both are easy to use, easy to carry, and mulitpurpose.

If I were attacked I would always have at least one of these knives on me. Either in my pocket or in my car. You just cant beat a good bowie knife.

my favorite martial arts weapons would most likely be a 1) cane (easily and legally portable as well as being multipurpose. 2) knives, could easily integrated into cane style (hook with the bend, pull in for stabbity death. 3) my mind, gotta have one the use the prior 2, and finally 4) the rest of my body, my nine basic weapons, always legal and I always got 'em with me.

Originally Posted by LoneWolf1

I have to say my favorite would definately be the daisho, two blades at once are crazy if u get good at them. But it is also very challenging to learn that is why they are my fav ma weapon

my favorite ma weapon is my Light Umbrella but there's a 2 stained long needles i attached to the tip of my umbrella, making it Legal to the Law

I feel most comfortable using the nunchaku for performing kata's and stuff, i can appreciate that its not the most defensive weapon and against other more dominating weapons like a pair of something, i would get killed. But its the most fun to learn and when at a good standard looks most impressive. Im trying to learn to use sai's at the moment, but due to me having clunky fingers its difficult to rotate them around my hands. I'll stick to the nunchaku i think.

Kusari fundos a favorite of mine: small, concealable, fast, and you can do many many things with it.

My favorite would have to be a staff. I have a knack for it, and there are so many things you can reach out and snatch up that you can use as a staff in a pinch.

Bruce Lee always made nunchakus look really cool in his movies.

Raphael the ninja turtle had clunky fingers, and he still managed to use sais.
Donatello was always my favorite though.

Well i don't even agree with owning a pistol "any bloody fool can pull a trigger", also even if Raphael did have clunky fingers he was a mutant turtle trained from birth. Thats 15 years trainning in the art of sai's and ninjitsu and stuff so i shall not be compared to him - clunky fingers or not give me another 10 years of solid trainning and i'll be as good. Donatello was quite cool but more of a geeky character i would have to say Raphael was the coolest by far.

Since when has a firearm been classified as a martial arts weapon? And SiWilliams logic may be due to the fact that he/she lives in England, and the right to carry hand guns doesn't apply there.