weapon

Most of you are probably familiar with bokken, wooden katana for practice. Less familiar may be the suburito, a heavier, almost oar-shaped bokken meant to develop power. Cold Steel has polypropylene trainers in Japanese styles, including a couple of bokken sizes, and a suburito. The suburito...

And by that I mean how many weapons are you well versed in and how would you recommend others to pursue or handle their own training? Using myself as an example I'm trained in the use of several different swords based martial arts and can legally carry a sword here in AZ and do so, but I also...

A quick search on THR showed no shortage of improvised weapon/tool/device threads over the years. Lots of good info in those, but I thought we might try something a little bit different. A budget improvised defensive tool thread with specifics (brand, model, style etc). A cheat sheet, if you...