@DSN107 No, I'm twelve. But I have expirience with weapons because I a tanto, wakizashi, katana, battle axe, long bow, daggers, 44 Magnum, zanpukato, twin hook swords, a spear, and a broad sword. All real. ^^
@NinthNazgul XD LOL Yeah? Now that I read it... Does seem silly for a twelve year old girl to own that many "exotic" (yeah, no...) weapons. I was recently at a Gun And Knives show, and I searched the whole place for this weapon!! I DID get some other kick ass stuff though. Full tang! (derp >>)
what an awesome weapon :D... it was Tsukasa's weapon in Tokyo Crazy Paradise so i was a bit curious on how it's really used and what it looks like :D... so amazing~ :3
This weapon seems useful only if your enemy makes himself obvious, draws weapon, allows you to build momentum, and then walks slowly towards person with kuri. I mean this with zero sarcasm.
In a duel or standoff perhaps it would be more effective, but I think a thrown weapon before a charge would ruin a kuri users day.
Hmm.... Interesting. I'm been checking out vidsl ike this so I can get some ideas for Boffer Weapons. The Kusarigama looks like a really cool and effective weapon! If done right of course.
@macgeek1972 actually that is just anime. in real life that would prove terribly ineffective.The blade would bounce off and the chain would probably break.
and the coolest part is that there is NO lineage for the weapon, we dont have a chain of practitioners, so everything we are doing with it these days is modern recreation... think of how devastating it would be in a kobudo headmaster's hands.
and yes we know it was used, and we know its structure, but we do not have all the techniques.
@Arteanor well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques, what were missing is the traditional kata i believe is what u meant but i dont think there would be one, this was a guerilla weapon, its improvised some practiced/taught this weapon in secret because there was a ban on sword length it offered huge distance advantage and was still concealable the kama and manriki still survive today in all of budo and guess what weapon u get when theyre combined?
"well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques"
but we DON'T have this... at least as far as i was made aware...
did you have a source i could check?
you hold up a few small periods of arms restriction as if they were somehow the rule...
it restricted WHO could wear WHICH LENGTH of swords...
nobody is contending that the parts are still extant, but all schools are recreations of techniques, we can't know how close they are to real deal kobujuts
@Arteanor Well yeah i do have a source, every budo school that still teaches the kama or the manriki/suruchin weight chains, which is where you got the second chained portion of that weapons techniques, the kama portions are all there too in budo kata, that weapon was created as an improvised weapon out of two, likely wasnt ever a kata for it but rather the techniques come from the two weapons katas that were combined in order to make it, also wikipedia will tell which ryu specifically taught it
"Well yeah i do have a source, every budo school that still teaches the kama or the manriki/suruchin weight chains," uh when someone asks you to cite your source you need to provide the names, and locations where this can be verified...
"the kama portions are all there too in budo kata, that weapon was created as an improvised weapon out of two, likely wasnt ever a kata for it but rather techniques came from the 2..."
this is NOT an assumption you or wikipedia is qualified to make.
@Arteanor you really want me to start listing all of the budo schools that teach kama or chain weapons!? we would be here all night you can simply google search those in your area and other countries that include the kama and chain weapon in their schools, as far as you not recognizing wikipedia as a valid source when its globally accepted and referred to amongst universities also lists its own sources, i could say those are points you arent qualified to judge
"you really want me to start listing all of the budo schools that teach kama or chain weapons!? "
nope i just want you to list the ones you have heard the comments you have made from.... or were you ASSUMING they support the claims you are making?
uh, you haven't BEEN to a university class lately have you?? no schools from elementary to post secondary allow wikipedia for research... it is something they are trying to get over, but the quality is being degraded by ignorant 'experts'
@Arteanor meibukan goju ryu,kykushin karate(guardian dojo),okinawa te all of those clubs teach the kama and manriki chains, whats funny is i was actually at business class the other day, so you speaking of ignorant experts is quite fitting and rather amusing ill be sure to forward some of my findings when i complete my science degree, anyways here at UBC one of the best in canada, they allow it, ive used it for my thesis, i think its you whos never attended a university level class in your life
@Arteanor lookin at your home page on here now its full of peoples arguments, it seems you didnt even look into those clubs and that data theyre actually around my area and ive attended all of them so actually they DO support my claims you dont even i cited my sources you wrote them off as bullshit which you clearly do to everyone before even reading up on it, the people commenting on your page are proof alone youre like talking to a brick wall
"lookin at your home page on here now its full of peoples arguments," yes i'm a proponent of free speech, its fun to correct you
"it seems you didnt even look into those clubs and that data"
i don't care about your clubs, they are modern creations not the koryu bujutsu you claimed.
" theyre actually around my area and ive attended all of them so actually they DO support my claims you dont even i cited my sources you wrote them off as bullshit "
@Arteanor "i don't care about your clubs, they are modern creations not the koryu bujutsu you claimed."
cite the exact post in which i claimed "koryu bujutsu" because reading back youre actually the one to start talking of it first, that wasnt what i said
"well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques, what were missing is the traditional kata i believe is what u meant but i dont think there would be one,"
you said this... this is a claim to having the techniques of koryu bujutsu...
so you ASSERT that this weapon was without forms... weird, kawakami has forms for pot holders...
you claimed to have the same skills and techniques as the ryu now extinct, and were only lacking in kata.
@Arteanor That doesn't mention anything of koryu there you go again misunderstanding or misreading my statement you must be dyslexic or something you're somehow translating that into something it does not say and going your own direction with it, nowhere does it say i claimed to have the same skills i was referring to the budo community having the kama and chained weapons and yes i dont think there was one personally, i never said "i have the last knowledge of this weapon and i claim koryu"
since i was referring to koryu, your comment, which is a direct reply to me , should generally follow what was being talked about, or are you ADMITTING YOUR STRAWMAN???
i never said you did... but the discussion was established over 4 months ago as being about the lack of techniques...
and that this would not be the case if it were koryu,
@Arteanor No see I wasn't referring to koryu there's where you assumed and went off on this huge fictitious claim and i keep telling you this and you keep talking in circles, shifting from one debate on one video to another back to something you ASSUMED over 4 months ago and still cant understand, as for the different asian languages to english translations a few misplaced words still yields search results i was naming a few off the top of my head that had the kama and the chains
"as for the different asian languages to english translations a few misplaced words still yields search results i was naming a few off the top of my head that had the kama and the chains"
say what fool??
i asked you to fix the word that you typed...
kykushin is NOT an asian word... it is a MADE UP word to LOOK as if it were asian...
i ASKED for you to correct it...
since you are unable to do so.... we can only assume you don't have the ability to correct it.
@Arteanor furthermore which clubs have you heard directly arguing towards your claim? list them in order and your credentials, or are YOU just assuming they support the claims you are making? verification works both ways, this convo isnt one sided
Can someone explain to me WHY this weapon is considered so hard to use? I've practiced with one I made myself and I find it easy...well, maybe not like super easy, but simple nonetheless.
@xxgangbangerxx I'm not sure about it being the hardest, but it seems pretty hard since you are not dealing with a fix, "solid", weapon like a katana. Weapons like the kusari kama and lien tien kuan are really much more complicated to use than a, say, bo staff since you have full control over it. Those kind of weapons can turn, and be turned, against you in a matter of seconds.
Of course, in the end, what suits you best and is easier for you is a matter of taste.
How about you put at least a 3 pound of weight on one end and make sure the weight have spikes, and hard. On the other end, make sure you got a blade sharp enough rip flesh with.
Now spin that thing around, and hit target with it.
I'm terrified of the Kusarigama, they are incredibly dangerous to the user if he/she doesn't do everything perfectly. Centripetal Force is a bitch, especially when that bitch is swinging a blade at you.
@xxRukUSxx Fortunately contrary to what hollywood tells us the sickle part never leaves the hand. It is the part of the weapons that provides you with the control while the weight on the end is what is normally swinging to pull in, disarm or immobilize so you can move in and strike with the blade. Or the weight iself can be used to cause damage. It puts out a force strong enough to give a person a concussious if they were wearing a steel helmet. So bare headed would be quite deadly.
@Shadowcast577 all though you make your self sound smart you also wrong the kusari gama is to kill the person using it wiill do what it take to kill they would sometimes throw and pull there kill and take the head as a prize not trying to be disrespectful but its the truth
@xxRukUSxx not only that, dont believe the mvies a samurai kusarigama want some farm sickle, OOK no, the real dueling weapon had a badass straight blade and a stout point for punching into armour, you did NOT wanna mess with the kusarigama, nd it was hus that it was, for dueling and small encounters, the kusarigama was far superior to any other wmelee weapon of its time./
im even afraid to use nunchaku because my brother who can use them well hit himself in the funny bone at full speed and couldn't feel his pinkie for 4 days
@xxRukUSxx only one old ryu actually uses the blade as a thrown wepon, the rest of budo only uses the chain weight as the thrown weapon and never the sickle, it stays in the hand while the weight flies around....
@Inurian59 That's usually how the kusari Gama is portrayed to be used though, swung by the chain with the sickle being swung, which would most likely just bounce off a target. So to anyone who didn't know about the weapon, from all the media it is in, they would assume you swing the blade.(which of course is wrong) but xxRukUSxx's comment still stands, Centripetal Force is a bitch, especially when it's swinging a weighted ball and chain at you.
The individual with the Kusarigama is Katsuse Yoshimitsu Kagehiro, serving as the 12th Headmaster of the Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu. He also serves as the 15th Generation Headmaster of the Suio Ryu Iai Kenpo.
It's sad how you put up a genuine budo vid like this and all the ninja trolls come out and crap all over it.
At the US nationals this past July in Vegas they had a similar demo of kusarigama/daito. Very interesting. Wouldnt ever catch me using a weapon on a chain though.
And BTW for all you ninjers out there, Yes the samurai used this too. No need to bring it up any more.
i think i read somewhere that Miyamoto Musashi actually did a duel with someone who wielded one. that would've been a very interesting duel to see if it actually happened eh?
nah i think ill leave it up to my imagination.... i wonder if i could talk to my sensei into performing a possible re-entactment of the duel.... we wouldnt know exactly how every strike went but it would be some cool improvisation to see no doubt.
Yeah he fought against a guy called Shishido Baiken, who was a kusarigama practioner, Shishido Baiken tried to jump him in his sleep, if i remember correctly, and Musashi ofcourse, defeated him. Around September in the year 1607.
The individual with the Kusarigama is Katsuse Yoshimitsu Kagehiro, serving as the 12th Headmaster of the Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu. He also serves as the 15th Generation Headmaster of the Suio Ryu Iai Kenpo.
Asshole you said the N-word, the word is blacks or african also negroe or negroi can also be used but not in US...Is this cartman? yeah you must be Cartman you just sound like him always complaining about the Yewds...you bastard!!!
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why the hell the japs had to do all these strange weapons while a common morning star or a longsword could rape anyone easily in the right hands. Also any decent western plate armor was enough againts katanas or these things... blunt is the way to go :P
Some people dont think before they write, any weapon in the hands of an expert is devastating. Also these weapons are made for combat suited for the time and place, just as the longsword and plate armour suit the time and place of thier own origin. The japanese had blunt weapons like the boken while used in practise it is a combat ready weapon that can split a skull or break bones and its faster and lighter than a morning star. Do your homework before showing your ignorence.
A Kusarigama can rape anything in the right hands you got to remember a ninja with this would be able to sneak up on anyone with plate armor slip it under a slit and tear open a large hole that would make the person bleed out or worst and one of my personal favorites sneak up behind some one throw the chain over the neck hold it then slice the back of the neck or throat wide open
Not actually that depends on the clan the original ninja came out of farmers looking to fight the oppression of shogun controlled goverments that popped up kind of like LRA in africa
in the end Ninja still at one time or another have engaged samurai and killed them with the Kurasigama and could probably engage a European Knight and kill them the same way I talked about
This guy is good at KusariGamajutsu. By the way, wikipedia said these were used by Samurai. This can't be true, is it? In Ninjutsu, I asked my sensei the same thing, and he said very rarely.
Yes the samurai used kusarigama on occasion, though not on the battlefield though. The chain needs lots of space and in a close-packed battlefield there is no room for it.
I was once told that one of the uses for the kusarigama was by temple guards.
That the kusarigama is a "ninja"-weapon only is pure myth.
Do a search for "Isshin-ryu kusarigama" and you'll find a kusarigama tradition that dates back to the 14th century. (Note: Isshin-ryu kusarigama has nothing to do with the modern 20th century karate-tradition, which is also called "Isshin-ryu").
Well, you may want to ask your teacher where HE learned Japanese then. Wakarimashita means I understand/understood. Wakarimaska means "do you understand?" They are not variables. One is asking another if they understand and one is saying that YOU understood.
The individual with the Kusarigama is Katsuse Yoshimitsu Kagehiro, serving as the 12th Headmaster of the Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu. He also serves as the 15th Generation Headmaster of the Suio Ryu Iai Kenpo.
Pause at 0:42 wtf with the man in the audience face
SilentNinjaMan 2 days ago
This was a pretty slow demo. Though, I love the Kusarigama. I think it's a sick weapon:)
tmntlover08 4 weeks ago
I only found out about this weapon from Soul Eater(anime). Now I'm going to practice with a non-deadly one so I can use a real one!!
TheNinjagrl101 1 month ago
@TheNinjagrl101 i hope you're 13
DSN107 1 month ago
@DSN107 No, I'm twelve. But I have expirience with weapons because I a tanto, wakizashi, katana, battle axe, long bow, daggers, 44 Magnum, zanpukato, twin hook swords, a spear, and a broad sword. All real. ^^
TheNinjagrl101 1 month ago
@TheNinjagrl101 I laughed hard when i got to "Zanpakuto"
NinthNazgul 1 month ago
@NinthNazgul XD LOL Yeah? Now that I read it... Does seem silly for a twelve year old girl to own that many "exotic" (yeah, no...) weapons. I was recently at a Gun And Knives show, and I searched the whole place for this weapon!! I DID get some other kick ass stuff though. Full tang! (derp >>)
TheNinjagrl101 1 month ago
It looked like the guy with the kusarigama beat the guy with the katana.
OmegaWolf747 2 months ago
Even the great musashi was almost defeated by a kusarigama user.
ronin0726 2 months ago
what an awesome weapon :D... it was Tsukasa's weapon in Tokyo Crazy Paradise so i was a bit curious on how it's really used and what it looks like :D... so amazing~ :3
frianejade824 3 months ago
I mean no disrespect by shortening the name of the tool to kuri, it is the kusarigama. I am writing from my iphone and my thumbs are lazy.
exodus22482 4 months ago
This weapon seems useful only if your enemy makes himself obvious, draws weapon, allows you to build momentum, and then walks slowly towards person with kuri. I mean this with zero sarcasm.
In a duel or standoff perhaps it would be more effective, but I think a thrown weapon before a charge would ruin a kuri users day.
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I am also a kusari-gama master, check out my new video "The Kopro-Gama", there I will show you my techniques.
XSirApocalypseX 9 months ago
kusarigama is a type of soft weapon because it imbibes a chain.such weapons are very difficult to master but very dangerous too.
karatekaization 1 year ago
kusarigama is a type of soft weapon because it imbibes a chain.such weapons are very difficult to master but very dangerous too.
karatekaization 1 year ago
This demo could have been a lot better.
adolescent900 1 year ago
The kusarigama has got to be the most metal instrument of death I have ever seen.
8BitTehGameMasta 1 year ago
Hmm.... Interesting. I'm been checking out vidsl ike this so I can get some ideas for Boffer Weapons. The Kusarigama looks like a really cool and effective weapon! If done right of course.
jakey926 1 year ago
which is the best one to wrap around the leg wit the chain to get the enemy off balance? is it kusari gama or KYOKETSU-SHOGE????
k2evans118 1 year ago
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kreugerpranka 1 year ago
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@k2evans118 Both are good for that, I guess whichever you are more skilled with.
kreugerpranka 1 year ago
cmon, lets see some blade-swinging action like kohaku does in inuyasha!
macgeek1972 1 year ago
@macgeek1972 actually that is just anime. in real life that would prove terribly ineffective.The blade would bounce off and the chain would probably break.
MrGamerguyify 1 year ago
@MrGamerguyify Erm yah considering this weapon is documented historically in fights yah lol.
ralphyboy1 1 year ago
@ralphyboy1
and the coolest part is that there is NO lineage for the weapon, we dont have a chain of practitioners, so everything we are doing with it these days is modern recreation... think of how devastating it would be in a kobudo headmaster's hands.
and yes we know it was used, and we know its structure, but we do not have all the techniques.
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor Is it true it was more of a bandit weapon than a noblemans/shoguns weapon or w/e.
ralphyboy1 1 year ago
@ralphyboy1
its made out of a FARM IMPLEMENT, nothing noble about it at all...
kusari are a scythe... the low grade hedge clippers... a tool improvised into a weapon...
and a good one at that. but i wouldn't think it would be a popular upper caste weapon
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques, what were missing is the traditional kata i believe is what u meant but i dont think there would be one, this was a guerilla weapon, its improvised some practiced/taught this weapon in secret because there was a ban on sword length it offered huge distance advantage and was still concealable the kama and manriki still survive today in all of budo and guess what weapon u get when theyre combined?
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques"
but we DON'T have this... at least as far as i was made aware...
did you have a source i could check?
you hold up a few small periods of arms restriction as if they were somehow the rule...
it restricted WHO could wear WHICH LENGTH of swords...
nobody is contending that the parts are still extant, but all schools are recreations of techniques, we can't know how close they are to real deal kobujuts
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor Well yeah i do have a source, every budo school that still teaches the kama or the manriki/suruchin weight chains, which is where you got the second chained portion of that weapons techniques, the kama portions are all there too in budo kata, that weapon was created as an improvised weapon out of two, likely wasnt ever a kata for it but rather the techniques come from the two weapons katas that were combined in order to make it, also wikipedia will tell which ryu specifically taught it
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"Well yeah i do have a source, every budo school that still teaches the kama or the manriki/suruchin weight chains," uh when someone asks you to cite your source you need to provide the names, and locations where this can be verified...
"the kama portions are all there too in budo kata, that weapon was created as an improvised weapon out of two, likely wasnt ever a kata for it but rather techniques came from the 2..."
this is NOT an assumption you or wikipedia is qualified to make.
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor you really want me to start listing all of the budo schools that teach kama or chain weapons!? we would be here all night you can simply google search those in your area and other countries that include the kama and chain weapon in their schools, as far as you not recognizing wikipedia as a valid source when its globally accepted and referred to amongst universities also lists its own sources, i could say those are points you arent qualified to judge
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"you really want me to start listing all of the budo schools that teach kama or chain weapons!? "
nope i just want you to list the ones you have heard the comments you have made from.... or were you ASSUMING they support the claims you are making?
uh, you haven't BEEN to a university class lately have you?? no schools from elementary to post secondary allow wikipedia for research... it is something they are trying to get over, but the quality is being degraded by ignorant 'experts'
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor meibukan goju ryu,kykushin karate(guardian dojo),okinawa te all of those clubs teach the kama and manriki chains, whats funny is i was actually at business class the other day, so you speaking of ignorant experts is quite fitting and rather amusing ill be sure to forward some of my findings when i complete my science degree, anyways here at UBC one of the best in canada, they allow it, ive used it for my thesis, i think its you whos never attended a university level class in your life
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"meibukan goju ryu,"
your gendai budo is unsupportive to your claims... we are talking about koryu bujutsu here....
STICK to the period we are talking about....
"kykushin karate(guardian dojo)"
you are going to need to be more specific... lets break this one down.
ky ku shin
this isn't even a japanese word... PICK ONE to be ignorant of...
kukishin? or kyokushin?
one isn't karate... and the other isn't koryu.... so grats on TWO fraudulent citations... still think ur an expert?
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor lookin at your home page on here now its full of peoples arguments, it seems you didnt even look into those clubs and that data theyre actually around my area and ive attended all of them so actually they DO support my claims you dont even i cited my sources you wrote them off as bullshit which you clearly do to everyone before even reading up on it, the people commenting on your page are proof alone youre like talking to a brick wall
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"lookin at your home page on here now its full of peoples arguments," yes i'm a proponent of free speech, its fun to correct you
"it seems you didnt even look into those clubs and that data"
i don't care about your clubs, they are modern creations not the koryu bujutsu you claimed.
" theyre actually around my area and ive attended all of them so actually they DO support my claims you dont even i cited my sources you wrote them off as bullshit "
because they are too young, neither is koryu
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor "i don't care about your clubs, they are modern creations not the koryu bujutsu you claimed."
cite the exact post in which i claimed "koryu bujutsu" because reading back youre actually the one to start talking of it first, that wasnt what i said
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques, what were missing is the traditional kata i believe is what u meant but i dont think there would be one,"
you said this... this is a claim to having the techniques of koryu bujutsu...
so you ASSERT that this weapon was without forms... weird, kawakami has forms for pot holders...
you claimed to have the same skills and techniques as the ryu now extinct, and were only lacking in kata.
DEAL.
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor That doesn't mention anything of koryu there you go again misunderstanding or misreading my statement you must be dyslexic or something you're somehow translating that into something it does not say and going your own direction with it, nowhere does it say i claimed to have the same skills i was referring to the budo community having the kama and chained weapons and yes i dont think there was one personally, i never said "i have the last knowledge of this weapon and i claim koryu"
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
since i was referring to koryu, your comment, which is a direct reply to me , should generally follow what was being talked about, or are you ADMITTING YOUR STRAWMAN???
i never said you did... but the discussion was established over 4 months ago as being about the lack of techniques...
and that this would not be the case if it were koryu,
instead, we only have recreations.
you STILL haven't corrected yourself.
"kykushin karate(guardian dojo)"
kykushin isn't a word. fix it.
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor No see I wasn't referring to koryu there's where you assumed and went off on this huge fictitious claim and i keep telling you this and you keep talking in circles, shifting from one debate on one video to another back to something you ASSUMED over 4 months ago and still cant understand, as for the different asian languages to english translations a few misplaced words still yields search results i was naming a few off the top of my head that had the kama and the chains
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
"as for the different asian languages to english translations a few misplaced words still yields search results i was naming a few off the top of my head that had the kama and the chains"
say what fool??
i asked you to fix the word that you typed...
kykushin is NOT an asian word... it is a MADE UP word to LOOK as if it were asian...
i ASKED for you to correct it...
since you are unable to do so.... we can only assume you don't have the ability to correct it.
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Taud
"theyre actually around my area and ive attended all of them"
this has absolutely no bearing on this discussion.,. a Uni studen should know the basics of logic. get it together.
" so actually they DO support my claim"
you haven't cited WHERE i can see that they make these claims...
"wrote them off as bullshit which you clearly do to everyone before even reading up on it,"
no, it is because i ALREADY HAVE done the reading on it before their mention and know why it isn't what they claim.
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Taud
you still havent answered yet...
"meibukan goju ryu,kykushin karate(guardian dojo),okinawa te all of those clubs teach the kama and manriki chains,"
WHICH is it that you were referring to with this typo?
is it KYUKISHIN? OR KYOKUSHIN? i can't tell since you are pretending to be so expert you didn't type a japanese word..
""well if we know how it was used and knew its structure we essentially have the techniques""
still waiting for the explanation on this bit too...
Arteanor 1 year ago
@Arteanor furthermore which clubs have you heard directly arguing towards your claim? list them in order and your credentials, or are YOU just assuming they support the claims you are making? verification works both ways, this convo isnt one sided
Taud 1 year ago
@Taud
" furthermore which clubs have you heard directly arguing towards your claim? "
if you could pull the 'claims' you are referring to out with a quotation that would be great.
"list them in order and your credentials, or are YOU just assuming they support the claims you are making?"
there you go again ASSERTING that i am making a claim, i asked you to CITE your sources,,,
" verification works both ways, this convo isnt one sided"
but only one of us is making claims, skeptics rule.
Arteanor 1 year ago
This is cool
PeichenPhilip 1 year ago
it was actually a popular weapon in feudal times and effective against samurai sword
suckbar69 1 year ago
Wow, amazing demo! It's always a delight to see martial art masters perform their deadly dances. Thanks for sharing!
elfinstyle 1 year ago
0:30 best moment ever
ninjalowang 2 years ago 3
Can someone explain to me WHY this weapon is considered so hard to use? I've practiced with one I made myself and I find it easy...well, maybe not like super easy, but simple nonetheless.
xxgangbangerxx 2 years ago
@xxgangbangerxx I'm not sure about it being the hardest, but it seems pretty hard since you are not dealing with a fix, "solid", weapon like a katana. Weapons like the kusari kama and lien tien kuan are really much more complicated to use than a, say, bo staff since you have full control over it. Those kind of weapons can turn, and be turned, against you in a matter of seconds.
Of course, in the end, what suits you best and is easier for you is a matter of taste.
extragunbon 2 years ago 2
How about you put at least a 3 pound of weight on one end and make sure the weight have spikes, and hard. On the other end, make sure you got a blade sharp enough rip flesh with.
Now spin that thing around, and hit target with it.
ShiroSenda 2 years ago 2
amazing weapon
nirokat1 2 years ago
They say the most powerful weapon is the human brain! but i say that's only true if your brain is bullet resistant
mishgun420 2 years ago 4
AGREED XD
pokedude6712 1 year ago
I'm terrified of the Kusarigama, they are incredibly dangerous to the user if he/she doesn't do everything perfectly. Centripetal Force is a bitch, especially when that bitch is swinging a blade at you.
xxRukUSxx 2 years ago 23
@xxRukUSxx Fortunately contrary to what hollywood tells us the sickle part never leaves the hand. It is the part of the weapons that provides you with the control while the weight on the end is what is normally swinging to pull in, disarm or immobilize so you can move in and strike with the blade. Or the weight iself can be used to cause damage. It puts out a force strong enough to give a person a concussious if they were wearing a steel helmet. So bare headed would be quite deadly.
Shadowcast577 2 years ago 12
@Shadowcast577 all though you make your self sound smart you also wrong the kusari gama is to kill the person using it wiill do what it take to kill they would sometimes throw and pull there kill and take the head as a prize not trying to be disrespectful but its the truth
nate6bvb 2 months ago
lol, aye but if you learn to use it it's almost like a hack weapon xD really hard to block and it's really fast,
5T0RML0RD 2 years ago
@xxRukUSxx I was going to say the same thing...
JesusaloneisLord 2 years ago
@xxRukUSxx not only that, dont believe the mvies a samurai kusarigama want some farm sickle, OOK no, the real dueling weapon had a badass straight blade and a stout point for punching into armour, you did NOT wanna mess with the kusarigama, nd it was hus that it was, for dueling and small encounters, the kusarigama was far superior to any other wmelee weapon of its time./
elgostine 1 year ago
@xxRukUSxx Yeah i feel ya
im even afraid to use nunchaku because my brother who can use them well hit himself in the funny bone at full speed and couldn't feel his pinkie for 4 days
cocotheparrot 1 year ago
@cocotheparrot
I did this with my bo staff. It hurts so bad man. But, that's how you learn.
VaizardDaishi 1 year ago
@xxRukUSxx only one old ryu actually uses the blade as a thrown wepon, the rest of budo only uses the chain weight as the thrown weapon and never the sickle, it stays in the hand while the weight flies around....
Taud 1 year ago
@xxRukUSxx You shouldn't be swinging the blade by the rope anyway. It's HIGHLY inefficient.
Inurian59 11 months ago
@Inurian59 That's usually how the kusari Gama is portrayed to be used though, swung by the chain with the sickle being swung, which would most likely just bounce off a target. So to anyone who didn't know about the weapon, from all the media it is in, they would assume you swing the blade.(which of course is wrong) but xxRukUSxx's comment still stands, Centripetal Force is a bitch, especially when it's swinging a weighted ball and chain at you.
JerZeyCJ 11 months ago
@JerZeyCJ True.
Inurian59 11 months ago
The old master with the kusarigama is cool, maybe so cool like the Koproninja!
XSirApocalypseX 2 years ago
Which style of martial arts is this?
Vodkakinesis 2 years ago
kusarigama jutsu? idk
judoka9999 2 years ago
Kusarigamajutsu
Gronkepirl 2 years ago
Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu.
aznwingzr0 2 years ago
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The individual with the Kusarigama is Katsuse Yoshimitsu Kagehiro, serving as the 12th Headmaster of the Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu. He also serves as the 15th Generation Headmaster of the Suio Ryu Iai Kenpo.
IaiGuyForever 2 years ago
A good Kusari Gama fighter against a swordsman?
Kusari Gama 1, Swordsman 0
XSirApocalypseX 2 years ago
damn right
5T0RML0RD 2 years ago
The Kopropower will be with the Kusari-Master!
XSirApocalypseX 2 years ago
Why do you have to have this crap music in the background. not every people has DAMP
arnoldbertil 2 years ago
It's sad how you put up a genuine budo vid like this and all the ninja trolls come out and crap all over it.
At the US nationals this past July in Vegas they had a similar demo of kusarigama/daito. Very interesting. Wouldnt ever catch me using a weapon on a chain though.
And BTW for all you ninjers out there, Yes the samurai used this too. No need to bring it up any more.
rinjimaikeru 2 years ago 4
i think i read somewhere that Miyamoto Musashi actually did a duel with someone who wielded one. that would've been a very interesting duel to see if it actually happened eh?
sk8wise12 2 years ago
well the duel really took place but thats all I know. if you want a fictional account of how it happened you could read vagabond.
toookoooldrew118 2 years ago
nah i think ill leave it up to my imagination.... i wonder if i could talk to my sensei into performing a possible re-entactment of the duel.... we wouldnt know exactly how every strike went but it would be some cool improvisation to see no doubt.
sk8wise12 2 years ago
Yeah he fought against a guy called Shishido Baiken, who was a kusarigama practioner, Shishido Baiken tried to jump him in his sleep, if i remember correctly, and Musashi ofcourse, defeated him. Around September in the year 1607.
dougsqueenstown 2 years ago
His name was Shishido Baiken, in the English translation I read, the weapon was called sickle-ball-chain. - Pilum Viris
PilumViris 2 years ago
mah faaaavorite reallly owled weepon
radar77377 2 years ago
omg r they real weapons? i whip on the head could be fatal
sakuranbo888 2 years ago
Very nice demonstration. The Kusari gama wielder is skilled.
Haku92292 2 years ago 2
The individual with the Kusarigama is Katsuse Yoshimitsu Kagehiro, serving as the 12th Headmaster of the Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu. He also serves as the 15th Generation Headmaster of the Suio Ryu Iai Kenpo.
IaiGuyForever 2 years ago 3
This is shown on a DVD on Ebay in better quality (PAL / NTSC)
Search for item number 300287997439
jrantik 2 years ago
This was held in glasgow?
Lol imagine all the neds that felt inspired to go out and Bui a replica katana
formando 3 years ago
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just cuase your japanese does not mean u fuckin like anime. thats being a sterotype. just like with jewsand niggers.
do all niggers eat chicken? nooo some are vegans or some cant eat or some r fat fuckers
ZabuzaSOULESS 3 years ago
its ironic you say you hate anime and yet you have a name about one...
as anyone told you your an ass and your annoying?
Sarge1104 3 years ago 5
Hey Sarge1104 come back to this page and look what I wrote to Zabuza SOULESS, you might find it funny....
kibaloboferoz 3 years ago
Asshole you said the N-word, the word is blacks or african also negroe or negroi can also be used but not in US...Is this cartman? yeah you must be Cartman you just sound like him always complaining about the Yewds...you bastard!!!
kibaloboferoz 3 years ago
awsomee
it's a pity that mom sais i'm wasting my time watching martial arts with weapons
darksouladb 3 years ago
Great house song also! Do somebody know the name for me search the full song? thanks fro Brazil!!
fzerostrike 3 years ago
The music was a specially composed piece for the documentary by John Richards remixed by me.
macrosam 3 years ago
@macrosam So do you have a youtube of the song?
adolescent900 1 year ago
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why the hell the japs had to do all these strange weapons while a common morning star or a longsword could rape anyone easily in the right hands. Also any decent western plate armor was enough againts katanas or these things... blunt is the way to go :P
hombra61 3 years ago
Some people dont think before they write, any weapon in the hands of an expert is devastating. Also these weapons are made for combat suited for the time and place, just as the longsword and plate armour suit the time and place of thier own origin. The japanese had blunt weapons like the boken while used in practise it is a combat ready weapon that can split a skull or break bones and its faster and lighter than a morning star. Do your homework before showing your ignorence.
Namiwakiru 3 years ago 23
besides, the Japanese have nothing on the Chinese when it comes to odd weapons.
wheelerpm 3 years ago
@Namiwakiru ignorance*. lol.
maxgunn555 9 months ago
A Kusarigama can rape anything in the right hands you got to remember a ninja with this would be able to sneak up on anyone with plate armor slip it under a slit and tear open a large hole that would make the person bleed out or worst and one of my personal favorites sneak up behind some one throw the chain over the neck hold it then slice the back of the neck or throat wide open
KanameTousen 3 years ago
It is funny that you mention ninja rather than samurai. Ninja's were samurai that acted as a sort of secret police.
duckmasta2020 2 years ago
Not actually that depends on the clan the original ninja came out of farmers looking to fight the oppression of shogun controlled goverments that popped up kind of like LRA in africa
KanameTousen 2 years ago
Yes, the actual history of ninjutsu clans has become...highly distorted over the numerous years
LostKitsuneRonin 2 years ago 3
in the end Ninja still at one time or another have engaged samurai and killed them with the Kurasigama and could probably engage a European Knight and kill them the same way I talked about
KanameTousen 2 years ago
Kusari-gama is still my favorite weapon hands down aside from a naginata and standard katana
LostKitsuneRonin 2 years ago
me is the Shinobi Gatana sword beside the Kusari-gama
KanameTousen 2 years ago
Yeah, I'm more of a samurai style person myself though, just depends on your preferences
LostKitsuneRonin 2 years ago
ACTUALLY, they were just peasants that rebeled against the feudal leaders of japan.
radar77377 2 years ago 3
yeah, the ninjas grew angry of being told what to do and fought back to samurai when least expected, in other words, Stealth kill xD
pokedude6712 1 year ago
think about it
a long chain attached to a sickle with a ball or a sharp object swinging around keeping them reckless blunt weapon users away in a safe distance
if u come up close with a weapon of almost any kind that chain will wrap around it and disarm you then the light sharp sickle will go in for the blow
but in the end its what you're good at
and what you like
laoboyken 3 years ago
tigre negro kung fu, 8 animales mexico a.c. the best of the best
joakin2k 3 years ago
Told ya you were wrong. ALL of my Japanese friends confirmed it.And all fans of Japanese culture aren't just animation fans.Schnook.
b133le 3 years ago
This guy is good at KusariGamajutsu. By the way, wikipedia said these were used by Samurai. This can't be true, is it? In Ninjutsu, I asked my sensei the same thing, and he said very rarely.
Haku92292 3 years ago
Yes the samurai used kusarigama on occasion, though not on the battlefield though. The chain needs lots of space and in a close-packed battlefield there is no room for it.
I was once told that one of the uses for the kusarigama was by temple guards.
That the kusarigama is a "ninja"-weapon only is pure myth.
FredDude27 3 years ago 2
Thanks, I don't know much about Samurai, I'm more interested in the Shinobi no Mono.
Haku92292 3 years ago
Do a search for "Isshin-ryu kusarigama" and you'll find a kusarigama tradition that dates back to the 14th century. (Note: Isshin-ryu kusarigama has nothing to do with the modern 20th century karate-tradition, which is also called "Isshin-ryu").
FredDude27 3 years ago
amazing 5 star
bobsquidly 4 years ago
Well, you may want to ask your teacher where HE learned Japanese then. Wakarimashita means I understand/understood. Wakarimaska means "do you understand?" They are not variables. One is asking another if they understand and one is saying that YOU understood.
Wakarimaska?
qeslah 4 years ago 6
Bilingual, grammar nazi, liar, internet fight! HOLY SHIT
xtheshame 3 years ago
you mean boring? and whats with the superfluous hyphenation
scottbaioisdead 4 years ago
Uhhhh...... do ya mean wakarimasu-KA ?
b133le 4 years ago
nice demonstration. what track is played in the background, i like it!
stagl 4 years ago
it was actually playing at the event..thats what gets the kusarigama guy in the groove ..
DaCootMan 4 years ago
Undefeatable.
Xinsama 4 years ago
The individual with the Kusarigama is Katsuse Yoshimitsu Kagehiro, serving as the 12th Headmaster of the Masaki Ryu Fukuhara Ha Kusarigamajutsu. He also serves as the 15th Generation Headmaster of the Suio Ryu Iai Kenpo.
Sunehishigi 4 years ago 2
Is it hte pre-show of the 12th WKC in Scotland Glasgow?
BabyandKenJ 4 years ago
Yes, just before the finals if I remember correctly...
macrosam 4 years ago
12th WKC in England ?
BabyandKenJ 4 years ago