10 Deadly Weapons For Hand Combat
You should see these mostly historical weapons.
Published 9 years ago in Ftw
Batman loves his hand-to-hand combat and if you do too, you should see these mostly historical weapons.
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Pata or patta, is a glove-sword mix. Basically it's a sword with a gauntlet integrated as a handguard. The moves you could do with these were said to be much more complex than using a sword, plus you couldn't be disarmed easily. On the bad side you couldn't drop the sword to do something requiring use of two hands.11
Tekko. It's some kind of a brass knuckle, but they are interesting for another reason. This Japanese weapon was not used by warriors but by... farmers from Okinawa (Mistah Miyagi anyone?), these farmers were often attacked by sword-wielding Samurai and had to use martial arts to defend themselves. Farmers were forbidden to use swords so they used Tekko to parry swords, and actually with some success.