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5 Reasons to Learn Martial Arts Weapons
1) Improved coordination
Training with weapons improves your coordination in ways that only controlling something that you don’t have nerve endings in the can.
2) Weapons of opportunity
It’s not just a stick. It’s also, potentially, a sword, or a baseball bat, or a lead pipe. By training with a stick, you’re also training with anything cylindrical of roughly the same length. You’ll have to make adjustments for weight/length/feel, but you’ll be better equipped to fight with a pool cue if you’ve trained with a bokken than if you haven’t.
The same principle applies, to some degree, to other weapons, though I can’t think of any readily available analogs for soft weapons like a chain whip or nunchaku.
3) Historical preservation
Whether or not this is important to you is another matter, but many people choose to practice with historical weapons, a category which many martial arts weapons fall into because they want to preserve, or in some cases, reconstruct historical weapons practices. This can be because the weapon belongs to a martial art they’ve already invested time into. It can also be because of cultural heritage.
5) “My Hand is my Sword”
That’s a karate saying, based on the idea that, since they didn’t have weapons, they would use their hands as their weapons. This reason actually relates, in a way, to reason II, in that a weapon can serve as an analog for an empty-handed technique. For example, in Kali, we structure our strikes by angles. Angle 1, for instance, is an inward-moving strike to the side of the head/neck. This can be expressed either with a stick or with the hand as an inward chop to the neck. Whether or not you do Kali/Escrima/FMA, you will learn angles by learning weapons. It can be easier to learn angles with weapons, because the angles will necessarily be larger, and therefore easier to see.
5) Defense Against Weapons
Even if you have no desire to learn weapons, because you believe you won’t use them, there still exists a possibility that someone will try to use a weapon against you. Learning how to use a weapon will give you a better understanding of the way that weapon moves, and therefore the best way to evade that weapon or disarm it.
Martial arts often conjures the image of weaponless hand-to-hand combat, but weapons have played a key role in the development of many different styles of martial arts.
Sometimes, they are even the central focus! This article will discuss some of the most popular and effective martial arts that use weapons.
1. Escrima/Arnis/Kali
Escrima, Arnis, and Kali are three different terms for the national fighting style of the Philippines. It is most commonly known as Arnis, and its focus is on knife-and-stick fighting.
The stick, or escrima, is 24 to 28 inches long and often made of rattan wood. The knife-and-stick combo allows for both a powerful offense and defense.
Practitioners focus on speed, precision, and high-impact blows.
The most common training to learn this technique is to repeatedly strike suspended rubber tires to build speed, agility, and power until the blows are devastating.
2. Kendo
Kendo is a modern Japanese martial art based upon ancient Japan’s sword fighting practice, Kenjutsu. Unlike fencing, Kendo is a two-handed, heavier fighting style.
The weapon of choice is the bamboo sword called a shinai. A stand in for the katana of Kenjutsu – also known as the traditional samurai sword – the shinai has limited combat use and is mostly a competition weapon.
Kendo, like many martial arts, focuses on its practice as a way to improve oneself. Self-discipline, precision, and awareness are the keys to achieving mastery of Kendo as well as the benefits of learning it.
3. Kobudo
Kobudo is the weapons system taught alongside Okinawan martial arts. The three main weapons utilized are the staff, nunchaku, and tonfa. Kobudo is unique in that, unlike the other martial art weapon styles on the list, it does not utilize swords. In fact, the three core weapons are variants on stick fighting. The few bladed weapons that are in use by Kobudo are farm tools repurposed for combat, like the kama.
Like open-handed Okinawan martial arts, or karate, kobudo focuses on the use of repetitive training drills called katas. These drills help build muscle memory in students so that they can react instinctively in competition or combat.
4. Fencing
In fencing, there are three types of blades: epee, saber, and foil. However, the blades are very similar in style and practice. All three are relatively light compared to other sword styles.
The use of such light weapons means that it is considered better practice to use them with one hand. This results in rapid matches and light contacts. The heavier the attack is, the more vulnerable the attacker becomes. As a result, fencers focus on light footwork as the core of their practice. Until good footwork is learned, a fencer will always be vulnerable to a more agile opponent.
The biggest difference between fencing and medieval and Japanese fighting styles is that fencing is done with one-handed swords, while Kendo and Medieval swords tend to be two-handed. For smaller athletes looking for ways to use their size to their advantage, the speed requirements of fencing may be a better choice than the strength requirements of martial arts that use heavier swords.
5. Medieval Martial Arts
European martial arts focused extensively on medieval and knight-wielded weapons like broadsword, bow and arrow, daggers, axes, flails, and halberds. Some historical associations and Renaissance fairs still teach these weapons.
Like Kendo, most weapons from medieval Europe were two-handed weapons, whether that be a broadsword or heavy axe. As a result, the stances and approaches are very similar. Instead of standing sideways facing your opponent like fencing, you fend to face your opponent directly. Attacks are much slower but tend to be more powerful and directed against opponents wearing armor.
Some groups even recreate the practice of jousting, a type of Medieval martial game on horseback!