I want to buy some shuriken and am wondering what a good site to get them from is. I Google it and a bunch of McDojo looking sites pop up selling Naruto cosplay type gimmick sets. I don't want to go all crazy with the shuriken folded over 1,000 times by an ancient Japanese blacksmith, but still something nice that I can display. I'm in Oregon so it's legal here, and I'd prefer if it shipped from the US just for cost savings, but if it's good quality Japanese authentic shuriken I'd import.
Try Hot Topic or Spencer's gifts at the mall, ninja
Cold steel.
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if you decide you just want bo-shuriken like a purist, make your own with a rat tail file and some long steel nails
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i actually taught a shuriken class today and used hira shuriken i bought from there. Good quality. had no problems
What the frick do you even teach in a shuriken class? Is this a troll?
Not him but when I still went to bar trivia l the parking lot had a small open patch of grass next to it. There was always a medieval swordsmanship class there. The attendees were whom you'd expect.
Can anybody help me find a Manji Shaken for silly purposes?
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>but still something nice that I can display.
That's pathetic.
I'm not going to throw it at a squirrel just to miss and have it lost up in a tree. These are expensive.
throw it at the squirrels on the ground you moron
Does anyone have contact information for Originalcontentguy?
He had a smith who made some boss frickin' swords that triggered the frick out of the weebs here.
Take a modern circular saw blade. It's perfectly balanced. With pratice you can throw them with extreme precision.
Good traditional shuriken are blunt and heavy. They rely on their weight, spin and momentum to penetrate their target
Oh come on.
That's just the Latvian Air Force roundel, nothing to see there
Pinwheel of aggressive friendship
lol it looks like a Cactuar
Does that means it goes pitbull if it detects the Olsen twins or paraphenalia of them?
>I'm in Oregon so it's legal here
Too bad high cap mags are legal there. Hehe.
shurikens are a meme weapon right? used by meme ninjas to troll the enemy
They're less effective caltrops that you huck at surprised guards as you throw a sparker/smokebomb in your other hand and loudly announce "cheese it!"
>caltrops
Have these ever been useful for anything besides popping tires? Like, maybe on a large group of barefoot people in a dark alley it will work, but a single person is more likely to miss them than step on them by chance, and that's if they don't see them first.
If you do enough big ones horses get pretty upset. It is a delaying mechanism not denial. Even modern minefields are a delaying obstacle and not a primary wounding weapon.
Of course you use them in the dark, that's where true ninjas lurk. And you get big enough ones and they'll puncture shoes for sure. Or if you're being pursued by dogs, throw some down and that'll stop them.
Why would they need to be barefoot? Do you think you cant push a nail through a boot with your body weight, especially wearing thin, pre modern shoes?
Shurikens are probably the least effective weapon ever. You'll never really throw one hard enough to kill someone, they're not heavy enough to break someone's skull and they'd probably more likely cause harm to the user.
Ninjas only really used throwing items as distractions, usually coins or something.
Shuriken come in multiple forms the star kind and the nail kind and neither are intended to kill someone but just to be a distraction.
It's a catch all to describe cheap, easily made, easily concealed knives that you throw at someone by surprise. The idea being either they panic or try to block or avoid it, giving you some kind of opening or chance to escape, or they get hit, and they're distracted and bleeding during your fight/escape.
It is what it is, I'm sure a practiced man could throw them quite hard and put them to reasonable use in the situation they were made for.
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FRICK, is THAT what it's for? I've been using mine wrong
I don't really see what's to even care about except getting a known steel vs an unknown pot metal. You're buying a toy and the best thing you can do is buy a toy that can hold an edge enough to toss at plywood more than once.
Throwing knives have always been a gimmick of a performance art.
It's the kind of weapon that you throw at someone to harass, weaken or even incapacitate with bleeding or blinding before you get in close to finish them off, I'm sure. Kinda like archery when you think about it.
An arrow to the chest or head will fricking kill you or leave you grovelling on the ground. What the frick do you mean?
Maybe I'm giving him too much credit but I think he's referring to archery at range against armored infantry, comparing that to throwing knives against unarmored individuals.
Even the mightiest bows weren't really mass casualty producers, but would weaken, hinder, or disrupt formations of armored men (they did kill just much less frequently than is commonly believed).
The effect was only magnified for weaker bows in history.
Yes, and no. Its performance art for sure because for the same effort you can use other things for practicality. But because good art has no worth of its own except being art, you are trying to compare apples and oranges.
>wanting to display a consooomer item with no practical value
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Throw that two pound railroad spike cold steel makes.
shuriken are fricking gay
get a throwing axe instead