Tonfa

How the hell do you use these things? Too many karate katas showing flashy ways to swing this. The only way I can think of using this in a more practical way is just holding it in the other end and bonking people's heads or using the side handle to hook on legs.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It’s more defensive than offensive. Protects your forearms from strikes and gives your own strikes more weight. Spinning is a neat trick but not used except to give you more reach.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Like some sort of bludgeon that's also a shield? Also kind of impractical to use 2 at the same time. Better have a gun or at least a knife at the ready and have the empty hand available to use secondary or for grappling.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        why did you make this thread if you were just going to be stupid? you're being stupid on purpose.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          checked, he makes this same thread every week or so and it goes the same way each time. Most likely it's his autism's current hyper-fixation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Laid across your arm you punch with it or use the bit sticking past your elbow like you would your elbow. Like that you can also block blunt objects swung at you.

        Or you can hold it by the small end and use it like a regular club.
        Or you can hold it by the long end and use it like a hooked club.

        If you really want to be fancy you can swing it around from the peg real quick to whack someone in the face by surprise, but that's just like, one thing you can do with it.

        I honestly dont understand what's confusing about it. It's a stick with two handles, worst case scenario you can just use it like a stick with one handle.

        I want to see an actual fight of someone that's "mastered" tonfa against something else.
        Not choreographed demonstrations, Hollywood fight, or some amateur that picked them up and is clearly uncomfortable using them still while larping.

        Unfortunately despite how "popular" they are asian martial arts have effectively withered away to nothing. Everyone's doing these moves not even sure what they're for or if they're accurate to the original style, and on top of that no one's training to fight seriously.

        I'm not saying asian martial arts used to have the secrets of the universe or anything, but we cant even get a good picture of what they would be like at their "peak" because no one can even agree if some funky move is supposed to be a throw or a block or a strike, and worse they just guess and tell all their students their guess and it gets passed down until some moron tries to punch a boxer with a move that's like a ten-times-photocopied grapple and gets his face broken in, and we all sit around going "I guess Ching-Fung-Choi or whatever the frick was always useless".

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >and on top of that no one's training to fight seriously.
          this is what sucks so much. There are so many cool as shit weapons and fighting styles, but the only way we'll ever see them portrayed is as gay shit flashy demonstrations.
          I don't want to see someone twirling around their tonfa and doing summersaults and backflips and spin kicks and shit for no reason, I want to see what these would be used like (by someone that trained with them) if their life was actually on the line and they had to use them to the best of their ability.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            so order a pair, start training with a shihan-level kobudo practitioner, and start your own blood sport fighting championships

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I remember watching a guy doing Eagle style Kung Fu. He demonstrated a combination where the obvious intent was to grab someone, throw them over your leg, and kick them in the face, and he was just calling everything a strike and thought the combination was for fighting two people on either side of you.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >"I guess Ching-Fung-Choi or whatever the frick
          Fricking kek idk why this got me laughing

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        lol, why would you use a gun? it's better to have a tank. idiot.

        >this is you btw

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a stick, how do you think you use it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      put in butt...?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        but you poop from there

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's a stick
      Tie a rope in the end of it and use it for fishing?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tonfa blades

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Tonfachads, is it finally our time?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There are entire police manuals on these things, that the average knuckle-dragging alcoholic cop can use against.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Hold small handle, small stick end frontward - You now have a small pokey bit out front and a big stick flung back to cover your forearm. Poke people and hit them with your now wooden forearm.
    >Hold handle, long side forward - You now have a club you can use without bending your wrist. Club club club.
    >Hold short part of club - You now have a club with a handguard
    >Hold long side of club - You now have a blunt pick capable of focusing a strike on a smaller surface area

    That's the long and the short of it, it's a whacking stick with slightly more utility than a straight club. I could see it being useful to try and block other blunt attacks if you had it covering your forearm, but I would much rather have a knife or a much bigger stick/club. Given that it's St Patty's day, a shillelagh would be thematically appropriate and they are actually pretty handy, although they break easier than a baseball bat.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I want to see an actual fight of someone that's "mastered" tonfa against something else.
    Not choreographed demonstrations, hollywood fight, or some amateur that picked them up and is clearly uncomfortable using them still while larping.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They aren't great.
    I guess hold one in your lead hand, by the 90° handle as a shield of some sorts, and the other in your rear like a normal baton.
    Techniques beyond that are going to be bullshido

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It’s not spinning so much as loosening your grip when you swing your arm so that the wood part swing with it, this giving you extra reach as well as a wooden object to smack them with. Alternatively the short end can be thrust forward like a punch with a little extra hardness to it.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Sega taught me that the tonfa grip is the ideal way to wield a cutlass

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I had a pr24 or whatever when I was a teen, the most effective is holding the long end, striking with the handle like a hammer.
    I would strongly prefer a 26" section of hickory sledgehammer handle if we're talking about clubbin ppl.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >am i uninformed?
    >no, it is the karateka who are wrong.

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