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Shredder with lightsabers...

...AWESOME!

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Just from the thumbnail.... one of those weapons isn't working out as well as the others. Swordchucks, yo!

   
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Yeah... Mikey is loosing some fingers.


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Nunchucks always seemed like a silly weapon to me and lightsaber versions are just asking for even more trouble.
   
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There’s a formerly canonical character that has Lightsaber Tonfi(?) Sticks. Which seems incredibly inadvisable.

The question mark is because I’m not sure it’s what they’re called. Think Nightstick.

   
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 Grimskul wrote:
Nunchucks always seemed like a silly weapon to me and lightsaber versions are just asking for even more trouble.


Well they seem to be more of training weapon rather than serious weapon so no surprise

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Nunchucks are actually incredibly dangerous and deadly. The force generated by them easily shatters bones and cracks skulls and far exceeds the force generated by a sword or bo staff or other more traditional weaponry.

Just noting. Someone skilled with them is very effecient at disabling or killing opponents.


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But are Nunchucks deadlier than Nun Chucking?

   
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Depends how skilled the Nun is with a ruler.
   
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They also originated in a time when getting other weapons was not easy to do for legal and practical reasons IIRC.

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That’s also where a bunch of Highland Games originated from.

And that dance form I can’t remember the name of, but is basically a really cool martial art.

   
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Someone actually did a force meter check on the thought that nunchucks hit harder. Turns out, they actually hit with less force than a stick of equal length to a nunchuck, and have significantly more chance of bounce-back hitting the holder.
   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That’s also where a bunch of Highland Games originated from.

And that dance form I can’t remember the name of, but is basically a really cool martial art.


Capoeira. Which is also the name of the dancing alien from Bust a Groove for some reason.

   
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 cuda1179 wrote:
Someone actually did a force meter check on the thought that nunchucks hit harder. Turns out, they actually hit with less force than a stick of equal length to a nunchuck, and have significantly more chance of bounce-back hitting the holder.


This wouldn't surprise me. I mean, if they hurt that much, then how does catching the thing in your armpit like so often happens not hurt like hell?

For what's its worth, the idea that the nunchuck was a weapon is a modern myth. The 'weapon' is intended to help train hand coordination. If you ever watch someone use nunchucks, you might notice a lot of the movements mimic punches and blocks. The tool is supposed to help develop speed and precision. It's not originally a weapon and is far too impractical to be used as such. Point of fact, most famous ninja weapons are very impractical. Their history as weapons is more a product of Japanese theater and literature than practice.

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Back on topic of Jedi Mutant Turtles, a while back I was shown pics from a TMNT, Star Wars crossover comic that blended the characters. Michelangelo/Chewbacca, Splinter/Yoda, and a look that actually works Shredder/Vader. He looked like a feudal Japanese Darth Vader with Vader's face mask on Shredder's helmet.
   
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 LordofHats wrote:
 cuda1179 wrote:
Someone actually did a force meter check on the thought that nunchucks hit harder. Turns out, they actually hit with less force than a stick of equal length to a nunchuck, and have significantly more chance of bounce-back hitting the holder.


This wouldn't surprise me. I mean, if they hurt that much, then how does catching the thing in your armpit like so often happens not hurt like hell?

For what's its worth, the idea that the nunchuck was a weapon is a modern myth. The 'weapon' is intended to help train hand coordination. If you ever watch someone use nunchucks, you might notice a lot of the movements mimic punches and blocks. The tool is supposed to help develop speed and precision. It's not originally a weapon and is far too impractical to be used as such. Point of fact, most famous ninja weapons are very impractical. Their history as weapons is more a product of Japanese theater and literature than practice.


Actually the nunchuks were a tool for harvesting grain. And their use as weapons comes from the improvised nature of the weapons used by ninja. Swords and such were the weapons of upper class samurai. The lower class used scythes/sickles and things like the nun chucks both because its what they had and because it allowed them to blend in. Not really a "ninja" thing so much as a class divide thing created out of necessity.


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That's part of the issue. 'Ninja' as a thing are mostly a narrative invention. Historical shinobi have almost nothing in common with them. A historical shinobi is just someone who engages in irregular warfare (more or less) and covers a wide range of activities, but none of them as flashy as we'd associate with the term. Most of the time, it was just some low ranking fellow paid coins(rice) on the sly to keep someone else appraised of the comings and goings of a person or place. Pretty much everything we think we know about them is an invention of the Edo period by which point such groups and persons had ceased to exist (or more accurately, the realities of what these people did started giving way to the mythology and the word ceased to be used in common parlance as it became increasingly associated with the romanticized image) which only further ferments the mythology.

Most of these weapons and the styles associated with them don't even come from Japan proper. They come from Okinawa, where their origins as weapons don't make very much sense and their uses as weapons on the main islands is contradicted by contemporary historical records (famous example being the Ikko Ikki, who mostly used spears and guns, not any of the flashy weapons theater and folk stories began associating with them later).

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Most Shinobi weaponry was designed to be disguised as farmer/peasant tools. That's the kind of stealth that actually works in a feudal society.

The modern ninja is an invention of theater. The origins date back to plays in which a nobleman would be assassinated and to play up the mystery and surprise the audience, it would be done by one of the stage hands who wear black hooded clothes to avoid being seen on stage. A neat trick, copied to the point of cliche that came to define the "ninja" in popular culture.
   
 
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