odee
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Kyokushin 10 years - Brazilian Jujitsu 3 years - Muay Thai 2 years.
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Post by odee on Jul 6, 2012 2:24:40 GMT -5
One of man's longest serving weapons the spear has made it all the way into the automatic weapons era by becoming part of those weapons in bayonette form. I'm curious though, since the spear has so many elements of so many other weapons why has spaearcraft rarely survived? Is it because the spear lacks the romanticism of the sword? I mean when armour reached its height swords were adapted to work like spears rather than being ditched in favour of spears. Why does the spear recive so little respect?
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Post by kokoro on Jul 6, 2012 3:36:45 GMT -5
look up how many variations of the japanese spear there are. i started cataloging them at one point and gave up. and all the dam names they have for all the different types. the one thing about the japanese is they love to name there weapons
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Post by jwbulldogs on Jul 6, 2012 11:17:53 GMT -5
Do you have some pictures of those spears? If so post them. I'd like to see the catalog.
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Post by kokoro on Jul 6, 2012 12:02:44 GMT -5
yes i still do its in my notes, ill dig them out later for you
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Chef Samurai
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Post by Chef Samurai on Jul 6, 2012 14:40:34 GMT -5
I think swords are more versatile than spears that's why they were favoured. A good sword has all the uses of an axe & a spear without the weighted cut of an axe. You can take prisoners with a sword pretty easily too with the long blade against their neck. All the traditional sword styles I know of use both thrusts & cuts too while with a spear is limited in its cutting due to the length of the spear head and can become bo style clubbing blows while with a sowrd it's always cutting unless you hit with the wide of the blade or the backside but they are more back up moves to my understanding. And at swords peak they were still used the same there was always a cut & thrust tradition in europe and it wasn't until the advent of guns that thrusting became predominant from the italian dueling tradition not really for war. The armour was so thick even thrusting was pretty much useless unless you stabbed someone in their face with their visor down so they started using them like baseball bats... literally. and still swords & unarmed went side by side they were part and how many chinese & philipeno styles are of the same style like how all karate schools used to have weapons until japan decided to promote karate as tai chi on steroids. Spears are good and their were always different soldiers armed differently and usually a spear, dagger & sword was issued.
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Post by youxia on Jul 6, 2012 16:11:00 GMT -5
Aren't spears the favourite of Shaolin monks? I heard they call it "the king of weapons".
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