Martial Arts Weapons

The Martial Arts have evolved and developed throughout the world over the course of 5,000 years. This evolution began with bare hand styles, but soon encompassed various weapons in the different styles. Just as fighting techniques were improved, weapons advanced from the most primitive stone and wood, to advanced instruments, made of strong, yet light, alloys, with increasingly specific function.

Many Martial Artists, having reached a certain level of proficiency with unarmed combat, choose to expand their knowledge to include the use of weapons. Traditional weapons vary greatly, but most fall into the following basic categories: long, short, very short, soft, and projectiles.

Since the invention of the gun, martial arts weapons are used:

1. To exhibit total control of one's body while expanding the energetic field and the "power" of the mind
2. To benefit health
3. For personal self-defense
4. To achieve higher perception and reaction time
5. To learn moral values such as patience, perseverance, and humility.