Tope Ten Kunfu Weapons of China 1/5

[ZerOwAffLeS]

the sword and sabre guys are those actual movements or just some super hyped movie joke? Im into this stuff but the internet keeps lying to me :P trying to learn <.< if you know then telling me would be greatly apprieciated

[makakamakaki]

Hey!Who was practicing kung-fu for more than ____ years?Little tiger?

[makakamakaki]

This and Conquest...My favorite weapon shows.

[knightj60]

why do the translators all have accents 0.o



[ShittyGarfunk]

@knightj60 Cause they are all chinese that know english?

[knightj60]

@ShittyGarfunk im chinese and i dont sound like that...... ._.

[ShittyGarfunk]

@knightj60 Pronounciation is usually different from person to person.

[n2488]

tope

[kilplixpwnslol]

@TheMartialartsJedi or give a 3 year old a gun , against a wudang sword master , kid wins , i hate the modern battlefield =/ old battlefields were more heroic in my opinion

[MaXingTien]

@kilplixpwnslol i agree with you...

[RussiaChina1]

i am chinese and i respect my countries history 

[Valen123456]

As i see it the most important aspect of a crossbow is not its range, firerate or penitrating power but its consistancy, a crossbow will fire the same range everytime its fired and is more immediatly accurate than a bow because its not the arm muscle holding it back, that means a novice crossbowman can fire at a target within range much more consistantly than a bowman of the same level ... nonetheless i would rank a bow (especially a longbow) over a crossbow

[agern11]

the general rule seems to be: the more spikes, the better ;)

[danpt2000]

In Ancient Rome, the infantry weaponry most talked about are the short bronze swords of the Legions, and the long spears of the Phalanx. By the time of Roman Empire, Han Empire had much longer straight swords, made of Bronze I believe. You don't hear much about curved blades used by European warriors, but you do see curved blades among Mid-Eastern and Far Eastern warriors.

[privatepinkbits]

roger federer is all technique thats why he kills all double handers

[diegomansi]

@TheMartialartsJedi using chinese sword with one hand is wrong from the beginning, and thats why katanna sword is superior. Using both hand (the japanese way) you control power and accuracy...

Today you can see that kind of grip in many diciplines baseball, golf, cricket, tennis ... etc.

Everywhere around the word you can see Samurais in diferent sports.

[TheXanian]

@diegomansi

Notice that double-handed swords do not only exist in Japan, in ancient China and ancient Europe, there were also double-handed swords.

Japanese double-handed swords were probably originated from the Chinese swords of Tang Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty (618AD-907AD), there were a lot of cultural exchanges between China and Japan. Japanese culture is strongly influenced by ancient Han Chinese culture.

[diegomansi]

@TheXanian if so, I think, its like the phrase between English and American´s " you invented it, we improve it"

[TheXanian]

@diegomansi

Tang dynasty Chinese double-handed swords were mostly straight swords. Japanese copied the Tang dynasty swords, but they improved it into a curved sword.

[Yora21]

This all doesn't seem very historicaly and scientificly accurate. At all.

[comidiyit]

awesome



[markdangerman]

0.06 seconds. is that what the klingons fight with on star trek , next generation ?

[AntiTheory]

Did National Geographic really just add in stock weapon swinging sounds? I'm watching the straight sword part right now and can't help but roll my eyes. I thought they only did this in bad Chinese kung fu movies :D

[plovakia]

@AntiTheory that's the sound of fake weapons... but I haven't heard the sound of real weapons yet. My centre only practices with fake ones and they sound like that. (Naturally the wooden weapons are, well, wooden)

[Luvyounot708]

those swords can hardy compare to the katana

[sauronchen]

@Luvyounot708 No offence. But, YES. It is! There are evidence shown that katana can hardy compare to katana. And if you are interested in weapon history, try to find some information about the prototype of katana, it actually came from Chinese Tang

dynasty's military broadsword.

[SuperKhanggg]

Uploadr

[SuperKhanggg]

remaining 

[icefanglord]

HOLY CRAP WHERE THOSE KIDS USING THE WEAPONS

[DeepestBlueJ]

@icefanglord kungfu school

[DeepestBlueJ]

@icefanglord kungfu school

there were for shows

[legendarybloodfang]

wtf is up with the crappy asian translation?

[ryan97303]

twin hook sword is bad ass

[crypter27]

They had shields,I thought easter countries didn't use them!

[senmafugu]

nothing better than a classical choreograph kung fu fight. . . cgi is no fun at all!

[MrSoulwat]

Holy SHit!!! LOVE THE GE!!!

[PakistaniisPower]

The Ge is more deadly. This docu is stupid

[Excalibur01]

masha Allah. As in praising something right?

[zhihao1]

LMAO!!! 4:15.......the swastika pose....and love the accent

[Excalibur01]

I dont really see it.

[zhihao1]

lol, a fan blade....gotta get me one of those!

[Sravakayana]

都是殺人的工具...

[Hpyrr328]

its called WEAPONS you dumbass...

[Sravakayana]

你是白癡嗎?

[Hpyrr328]

are you stupid? Don't watch this video, its called ancient chinese WEAPONS, weapons are used to KILL. Don't post a comment were you don't know what your talking about.

[Sravakayana]

白癡果真是白癡, 無可救藥啊, 我看, 你還是去撞牆好了~

[RacoonBurglar]

never use google translator, u fucking moron. hes saying its an instrument for killing

[Hpyrr328]

YES AND WHAT IS WEAPONS?

[Hpyrr328]

妈的。。。谁说我用了google translator, 这些工具不是杀人的还是干什么的？帮我爸洗脚啊？=.=

[grantourismo0109]

make love not make war

[purbanegoro]

Hehehehe

[segregator236]

Nothing compared to the weapons used by the Song and Ming dynasties...

[rednas3636]

such as?

[kingdomofharts]

can u please send me links to images of wepons from the song and ming dynasties i never hurd of them and i luff weapons of war

[lllonewolf]

#3

Through those periods of time (of peasants or common folks fighting off bandits); many legends were born (do remember that Wu-shu or Kung-fu or Martial-arts, were in a significant way a mandatory knowledge for all school kids); legends of heroes saving hundreds of villagers, and also legends of heroes being gutted by barbaric bandits.

[lllonewolf]

The legendary weapons we see in the museums are witnesses of human glory AND GORE.

Interestingly, many ancient weapons evolved and are in service to this day for many of our military armed forces. In a way, the stories of greed and bloodshed, continue, as we speak.

[purbanegoro]

Note the key word: LEGEND

[darkpladian]

at old times japan seperated to clans samurai was one of the clans so it shows that sword is not the only the other clans had it own wep and fight styles ...

[Spartiatai300]

Great show! I'm wondering though, is there something similar on Japanese weapons? And medieval European weapons?

[triggersots4686]

japanese only have samurai swords

[Spartiatai300]

Not really, I know that they have quite some weapons to. And that the samurai's main weapon was actually spear. A Yari I believe.

[wondeboy12]

Yup so thats why karate uses the farmer wepons? Bo,Tonfa,Sai ect ect?

[JQ0103]

I think reason so many weapons originate or resemble farmer tools is because there were restrictions on carrying arms for peasants. I might be wrong though, im not too sure

[lllonewolf]

#1

Back those days, the authority was not concerned with what the peasants could carry (arms); because while the peasants carry sickles, picks and machetes, and also bo (Japanese term for a staff, or a long shaft of hard wood, rattan or bamboo), sharpened on one end, sometimes both ends. The military carry spears; broadswords; hooks; long bows; crossbows and catapults(long range weapons). And one handed broadswords, multi-layered rattan shields, battle axes and hammers, heavy-duty daggers....

[lllonewolf]

#2

.....body armors, down to an armored helmet with a jutted point for butts, and armored jutted points on their elbows and knees (close quarters combat).

With the invention of gun powder, cannons and hand-held portable cannons were devastating weapons; as well as, grenades with powdered fuses.

The "traditional weapons" that resemble farming tools were passed down by the stories of how they (the peasants) fought off bandits who were always working on robbing and raping them.

[Tareltonlives]

And staffs, flails, bows, naginata, Okinawan weapons, spears, not to mention the unique implement-based weapons used by the peasants and made famous by the ninja

[Ammaculate44]

Dumbass ftw. Yay.

[rednas3636]

no:p)

[gk1713]

@Spartiatai300

just watch this

japanese weapon comes from china~

they use the weapon which are out of style in china

so the "japanese weapon" looks like unique...

[DRAGONIOUS7]

VIVA LA KWAN DAO!!!!!!!! :P

[MulletMan1313]

yo puedo oir ese !! (i hear that)

[DottorNish]

Mmmmm.... the sword, the queen af all weapons at the 10 place......

[cqc75]

this is great nice range of weapons.

[joshuadoc1721]

Definately goin to my favorites. THANK YOU

[blackangel501]

fucking awesome n its not crap quality!!!:)

[NemosRabia]

sweet :) thanks for uploading

[fromkhadija]

You're welcome :D

[randomikey5678]

thanx for the help for my research on weapons.

[fromkhadija]

Glad to be of help!