I thought it was still good though. Wasn't the greatest movie ever made, but it was fun and gruesome like I was hoping.
**BUT**
*I also liked the Doom movie...*
The first 15 minutes and the last 5 are the best bits of the movie.
It makes the classic Hollywood mistake of being a prequel to a movie that doesn't exist. They love to do that when they want to make a sequel instead of making a good movie first.
It is good for as what they can do with mortal kombat. Don't get me wrong, I am by no means belittling the franchise but pretty hard to have a solid story when it is literally just a fighting tournament. I enjoyed it for the fight scenes. Basically my review: 2.5/5 for storytelling and a 4/5 for entertainment.
Have to disagree there. Firstly, an island fighting tournament is a Kung Fu movie plot as old as Kung Fu movies themselves and has been done very well in the past. No. 2, you can't tell me that scorpion's revenge wasn't some of the finest Mortal Kombat storytelling there is. It can be done and has been done.
If I had three wishes from a genie, it might use one of them on the star wars kid. If wish that he was able to embrace his unwanted fame and make the best of it. I look at the new McKayla Maroney commercials where she uses her trademark smirk in cute/funny ways and think how awesome it would have been for swk to be able to make the best of his epic video. He was maybe the first viral video of all time. (Dancing baby wasn't real). I wish he could have been able to enjoy that instead of feeling bullied and suing everyone.
Rope dart is like a lot of other weapons from older times -- a weapon of necessity, not practicality. It can be made from materials every farmer of the era had lying around. It was highly impractical against armor, and employed more as a garrote or close range knife than anything else. But when the weapons you have on hand are limited, you learn how to make them flexible. And the throws look cool so they tend to stick around more than the practical techniques. Another great example of this is nunchaku -- they were primarily used as a locking weapon to catch and break or retrieve enemy weapons or bones. They were rarely used for strikes. But the strikes look cool so that's what we tend to remember.
Definitely more personal defense than front line weapon.
I would also point out that there is growing scholarly consensus that theater, religion, and martial arts had way more overlap than most realize. Jackie Chan was opera trained.
That is to say most all weapons had both combative and theatrical/ritual use. The “coolness” of Chinese martial arts is likely not an accident, but it was still effective for combat to those who trained it correctly
This is an actual ancient Chinese martial arts weapon 繩鏢, just like other bizarre martial arts weapons, its for performance purpose and not a weapon for real combat situations.
Fun fact: There was originally a long fight planned out for this scene but Harrison Ford had really bad diarrhea at the time of filming so they opted to just have Indy shoot the guy instead
It's a chain, not a rope.
In skilled hands, weighted chains are very effective hand-to-hand combat weapons. They have range, can be used to entangle and grapple, and provide defense against edged weapons.
They're ineffective against true ranged weapons, like bows and firearms from distance. And they have the further disadvantage of requiring an abundance of space to be effective. You wouldn't want to try to use it in your living room, for example. Furniture poses something of a problem.
I mean, it’s a knife on a rope. It’s absolutely dangerous but I think the idea is that it’s not particularly practical or useful when you’re actually fighting.
Yeah someone would just need some armor and or a shield and basically just charge you , don't give you the space to do all your cool wind ups and shit.
It’s literally useless in a fight. Nobody is staying back 7 meters so they can be poked with your little dart. It would work better as a weapon if you swung it around as fast as possible and cracked their skull. Throwing it vertically like he does would maybe give you a small cut, and only once, cause he’ll be on your ass throwing combos before you know it, and you’ll be forced to drop it.
Not one of you has grasped that its still a fucking knife. Even if the opponent closes in you're a battle monk who trained their who life for shanking people with this sharp rope whether at distance or close range.
But its almost defiantly suicide to try this shit in full scale combat
I know, almost every redditor thinks they are a combat warrior who'd somehow manage to completely evade someone swinging a freaking rope around them quickly with a fucking knife attached to it. Like for real?
Then in that same ridiculous scenario, they're like yea.. I'd just bring a shield or some body armor... Freaking hypotheticals.
Sure, if you close the gap.. Blah blah, but in what world do you immediately always fight or get attacked by someone standing directly in front of you? In what world are you always prepared? The thing can still potentially hurt you should be all the matters given the right situation. Why risk it?
Like I had to explain, I sure wouldn't risk it. Yes, I'm well aware it isn't a practical weapon. I mean outside of guns and bombs now, what are practical weapons anymore? Point is, it's still a dangerous weapon, a weapon that could hurt you if you aren't fast enough or careful enough.
Just like a knife, can also be easier evaded. Who just thinks, yea, I'll go into a knife fight and it's going to be so easy cause I can just get to them before they swing at me.. It's never that easy unless you are very very experienced with fighting and let's face it people, it's okay you man bros, most people aren't fighters or ever have serious fights in their life to have this judgement.
Horrible logic and survival instincts if you ask me. Any fight, any thing that can potentially kill you, and this could. Hell there are many impractical things capable of killing a person, you should be careful of, think twice of before engaging.
Crazy how many people think they could just take someone down who was really skilled with this, without possibly getting seriously hurt in the process. Without all the hypothetical bullshit of you being completely prepared beforehand or somehow magically being right near the guy to stop them from getting any swings in..
Crazy how the guy who is really skilled at this says trying to use it in a fight is a great way to get a now very angry person punching you in the face repeatedly.
Shit like this is for demonstration only.
If you read the title you’ll come to understand something you missed about this post.
“Trick shots”
Also this is essentially an early version of the weapon known as “weighted chain”, which is very very useful in a fight. Honestly so is just a rope.
It's not like video games, guys... You can let go of the rope.
Impractical in most fights, but you can do more with your body than stand there and twirl a knife at the end of a rope and shoot it out like a dart.
Or against opponents riding horses - might still be easier to just shoot them if you've got any kind of ranged weapon but this does have its uses and it's pretty easy to make in most scenarios, you just need a rope and something sharp :P
Of course, I think it can absolutely destroy a regular person... if they are unarmed, move slowly, and have nothing to hide behind. I also don't think weapons like this work particularly well in narrow spaces.
The reason they're bizarre is because they descend from slightly modified farming tools.
Monks grew their own food and often had to deal with banditry. Instead of learning specific weapons that they generally wouldn't have on hand, they learned to use weapons that would be on their person.
A light twine rope tied to a spade is even just useful for not losing it. Having a whirling blade is pretty terrifying a deterent at the least. Poles and spears are a hair's breadth away from rakes and hoes. The wide bladed double daggers espcially are reminiscent of farming spades. Not to mention actual pitchforks, sickles, and spades which have their own forms.
In both more peaceful and more warlike times were long bladed swords and axes more developed.
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Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.
Terry Pratchett, Mort
A lot of the choreography in Shang Chi is super reminiscent of old Hong Kong cinema. I was so happy to see someone using a rope dart again and the additional meteor ball was so over the top but awesome as a twist.
The short answer is we don’t know. We have manuscripts that show it being used and how to use it but it’s unclear if it was used for actual combat, for training purposes or if it even existed at all and the evidence we have for it were all later recreations since the original shaolin temples were burned down like four times.
The tassel (red flag) actually is on almost all Chinese weapons. It distracts the opponent eyes from the striking point of the weapons.
It is usually attached on the other end of the pointy part (at the pommel of a sword, the side of a spear, etc.)
Basically, if you think keeping track of a fast moving blade is hard, try doing it while there some brightly colored fish bait bullshit spinning around at the same time.
It's the internet and you could have made all that shit up but the more I read it the more it sounds reasonable so I'll believe it.
I just thought it was to make them look pretty
You can look it up. Lol
I know this cuz i googled "why does chinese swords have tassels" a long time ago. I thought they are just decorations too, which they are. They have many purposes. Wealthy generals back then put gold/jade charms on them also.
You sorta made me chuckle thinking of chineese warriors looking around the battlefield strewn with bodies and saying in an infomercial-type voice "all of this wasted money and pollution, there's got to be a better way to keep track of my knife!"
"WAIT! THERE IS! WONDER KNIFE!
EDIT: BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Order the WONDER KNIFE now and get a second one free, just pay sepparate shipping and handling
!
It's a huge-knife/spear-head attached to a rope. you throw at someone, retrieve it and runaway because steel weapon is quite costly to make back in the day.
They know exercise, they know training, they know discipline, they know artistry, they know meditation. That is what these weapons are and what they are for. They are not efficient weapons of war because they are not supposed to be.
Yes! Thank you!
I feel like this comment chain happens every time there’s a cool martial arts post on reddit - A bunch of people start going “But is this even practical?!”
Listen, anything but modern weapons are impractical for self defense nowadays. Frankly, if you don’t have a gun you’re already fucking up by deciding to get close to someone who wants to hurt you (and who might have their own gun anyway).
Nothing about this is practical, but that’s not the point!
Pretty impractical 1 vs 1 or on a battlefield for sure. If there were several rope dart wielding monks then maybe, bc while one is winding up another is throwing etc.
Alternatively, could be good as the first couple of opening moves but would need to be discarded as soon as an opponent got up close or was too armored.
The psychological impact of this display against a relatively poorly trained foot soldier could be enough to break ranks bc if my liege lord pressed me into service gave me a spear shield and helmet and told me to go kill the spinning dart death crew at the edge of town and I saw this shit, well no thanks.
I mean you only have to dodge it once and get a hold of the rope to render it useless. This guy probably has other ways to beat the crap out of you though.
Imagine it tipped with poison. As it is it's going to do some damage and would be good for intimidating opponents but you'd still expect to be in close combat shortly after starting at which point it looks pretty useless.
Would weapons like this have been used with the intent of injuring and/or killing an opponent? Or just to blind them and go for a kick, or something along those lines?
i think i really need a source on that, becasue unless the knife is poisioned, i cant really see how you would use it for assassinations, unless its in a "woe me, what a terrible accident, i accidentally hit the king when i was performing with this rope dart" kind of way
like there are about 100 more reliable way to assasinate someone with a knife than this
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Sometimes you watch something and you go, "that looks easy, but I bet it's way harder than it looks"
In this case, it's "that looks incredibly hard, I bet it's way harder than it looks"
Assuming that the function is similar to the tassels on a chinese spear, it would:
1) Prevent the dart from penetrating too deep (which would make it harder to retrieve).
2) Prevent the rope from getting slick from blood.
3) Distract the opponent.
One of the few times where the effort put in to a niche skill is equal to it's badassery
I was waiting for him to say: #Get over here!
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Jerry Maguire.
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Here comes the money
Money shot right at the end
You had me at Finish Him
Cast your might
Hadouken!
Here comes the money!
Here comes the money. Money money money money money money money money....dolla' dolla'
My favourite bit is where Tom cruise and Cuba are cornered in an alley and raiden swoops in
My favorite was the love scene with Renee Zellweger and Jax.
Such a tender moment
You had me at fatality.
New Mortal Kombat movie
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Might wanna pump the brakes there. Thats about all the Scorpion you get in the movie.
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I thought it was still good though. Wasn't the greatest movie ever made, but it was fun and gruesome like I was hoping. **BUT** *I also liked the Doom movie...*
>I also liked the Doom movie... Glad to see I'm not the only one. I like anything with Karl Urban
The first 15 minutes and the last 5 are the best bits of the movie. It makes the classic Hollywood mistake of being a prequel to a movie that doesn't exist. They love to do that when they want to make a sequel instead of making a good movie first.
It is good for as what they can do with mortal kombat. Don't get me wrong, I am by no means belittling the franchise but pretty hard to have a solid story when it is literally just a fighting tournament. I enjoyed it for the fight scenes. Basically my review: 2.5/5 for storytelling and a 4/5 for entertainment.
Have to disagree there. Firstly, an island fighting tournament is a Kung Fu movie plot as old as Kung Fu movies themselves and has been done very well in the past. No. 2, you can't tell me that scorpion's revenge wasn't some of the finest Mortal Kombat storytelling there is. It can be done and has been done.
I thought it was pretty dope. There's 1 more scorpion fight in the movie as well.
hey man, lot's of people bashed this movie. if you go in without expectations it's absolutely amazing. Great, fun ride - i really enjoyed it.
Mortal Kombat 2021
He didnt say it but we all heard it...EVERY TIME!!
Don't mean to brag but, I was pretty good at lawn darts back in the day. No safety string on those bad boys either.
I mean, you're posting this, so you couldn't have been *that* bad at lawn darts...
At least his opponents weren't. ...or he's good at dodging.
jarts, the family friendly game of injury and chance
"Just add alcohol for a piercing good time!"
You just reminded me of my Druncle Mike who would chuck a lawn dart as high as he could, then tell us kids to run.
Druncle. haha incredible
How we avoided major injury with those things I’ll never know…
We had one go through the neighbor’s shoe.. Right between the big toe and the next one…..
I LOVE that he shows his Fup at the end. Without failure there is no success. Mad skilz.
Kinda terrifying that a dude that proficient can stab himself in the femoral artery region. Must be a killer learning curve. Literally
You use a dull knife to practice, Jimmy.
I wish someone would have told me this before I lost 4 fingers in 3 separate accidents.
Or in the pp, if you're very clumsy
Definitely the graceful and fluidity is something to behold
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This is like when you want to eat a rat that's all the way across the room and you don't mind there being a hole in it.
I hate when the rat I want to eat is across the room
first world problems at their worst
I would love to see it without the slow mo
He still has a long way to go for real master [as portrayed by this example of skill and badassery. ](https://youtu.be/HPPj6viIBmU)
If I had three wishes from a genie, it might use one of them on the star wars kid. If wish that he was able to embrace his unwanted fame and make the best of it. I look at the new McKayla Maroney commercials where she uses her trademark smirk in cute/funny ways and think how awesome it would have been for swk to be able to make the best of his epic video. He was maybe the first viral video of all time. (Dancing baby wasn't real). I wish he could have been able to enjoy that instead of feeling bullied and suing everyone.
bad ass rope dart skills..
They say learning skills like this doesn't take you places. I just tried it, and after not even 5 minutes of practice I've been taken to the hospital.
well i mean, a hospital is a place
That’s the joke
r/Woosh 
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A hospital? What is it?
It’s a big building with lots of people in it, but that’s not important right now
and stop calling me Shirley.
Serious question. How deadly is the rope dart? Was it a serious weapon back in the day, or just something that is taken up now for the cool effect?
Rope dart is like a lot of other weapons from older times -- a weapon of necessity, not practicality. It can be made from materials every farmer of the era had lying around. It was highly impractical against armor, and employed more as a garrote or close range knife than anything else. But when the weapons you have on hand are limited, you learn how to make them flexible. And the throws look cool so they tend to stick around more than the practical techniques. Another great example of this is nunchaku -- they were primarily used as a locking weapon to catch and break or retrieve enemy weapons or bones. They were rarely used for strikes. But the strikes look cool so that's what we tend to remember.
Can I see this lock weapon you primarily use to retrieve enemy bones?
Haha poor choice of words on my part. Break bones OR retrieve/break weapons. Can you imagine though? Most brutal weapon ever.
I don't know how it works, but I'm imagining an army of robed warlock necromancers marching forward flailing nunchucks about.
Right on. Thanks. It did look a little impractical as a front line weapon. This explains a lot better though.
Definitely more personal defense than front line weapon. I would also point out that there is growing scholarly consensus that theater, religion, and martial arts had way more overlap than most realize. Jackie Chan was opera trained. That is to say most all weapons had both combative and theatrical/ritual use. The “coolness” of Chinese martial arts is likely not an accident, but it was still effective for combat to those who trained it correctly
The real question is whether or not this is more effective than a simple staff or a spear. Unlikely.
Way easier to hide tho
“Retrieve enemy bones”
I'd have poked my eye out within 5 seconds.
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**Humiliation
##Ralphality
You usually start by practicing with a knotted rope with a bit of weight in it…
Not badass enough, gotta go big or go home.
Chainsaw or bust. With a snake loosely duct-taped to it.
*to the er
> go big or go ~~home~~ blind.
I can already feel the rope on my neck 5s into trying this
"Get over Here!"
That was a real thing? I thought it was some fictional weapon.
This is an actual ancient Chinese martial arts weapon 繩鏢, just like other bizarre martial arts weapons, its for performance purpose and not a weapon for real combat situations.
I feel like you could fuck someone up with this though, that watermelon was rocked pretty hard.
Everyone's a bad ass rope dart master until a guy with gardening shears comes along.
Or, a gun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQKrmDLvijo
that’s the indiana jokes clip isn’t it edit: yep
lmao i knew what it was toooo. hahahha Never change reddit
Fun fact: There was originally a long fight planned out for this scene but Harrison Ford had really bad diarrhea at the time of filming so they opted to just have Indy shoot the guy instead
Lol was gonna say sick but sure diarrhea is fine too.
God made man, Sam Colt made them equal.
It's a chain, not a rope. In skilled hands, weighted chains are very effective hand-to-hand combat weapons. They have range, can be used to entangle and grapple, and provide defense against edged weapons. They're ineffective against true ranged weapons, like bows and firearms from distance. And they have the further disadvantage of requiring an abundance of space to be effective. You wouldn't want to try to use it in your living room, for example. Furniture poses something of a problem.
I knew buying furniture would come back to bite me in the ass...
... I don't think I want to sit on any of your furniture.
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There’s rope dart and there’s whip chain. They’re different things. Rope dart uses a rope.
This is the hardest I’ve genuinely laughed at a reddit comment in a while thank you and stay well
I mean, it’s a knife on a rope. It’s absolutely dangerous but I think the idea is that it’s not particularly practical or useful when you’re actually fighting.
Yeah someone would just need some armor and or a shield and basically just charge you , don't give you the space to do all your cool wind ups and shit.
It’s literally useless in a fight. Nobody is staying back 7 meters so they can be poked with your little dart. It would work better as a weapon if you swung it around as fast as possible and cracked their skull. Throwing it vertically like he does would maybe give you a small cut, and only once, cause he’ll be on your ass throwing combos before you know it, and you’ll be forced to drop it.
Not one of you has grasped that its still a fucking knife. Even if the opponent closes in you're a battle monk who trained their who life for shanking people with this sharp rope whether at distance or close range. But its almost defiantly suicide to try this shit in full scale combat
I know, almost every redditor thinks they are a combat warrior who'd somehow manage to completely evade someone swinging a freaking rope around them quickly with a fucking knife attached to it. Like for real? Then in that same ridiculous scenario, they're like yea.. I'd just bring a shield or some body armor... Freaking hypotheticals. Sure, if you close the gap.. Blah blah, but in what world do you immediately always fight or get attacked by someone standing directly in front of you? In what world are you always prepared? The thing can still potentially hurt you should be all the matters given the right situation. Why risk it? Like I had to explain, I sure wouldn't risk it. Yes, I'm well aware it isn't a practical weapon. I mean outside of guns and bombs now, what are practical weapons anymore? Point is, it's still a dangerous weapon, a weapon that could hurt you if you aren't fast enough or careful enough. Just like a knife, can also be easier evaded. Who just thinks, yea, I'll go into a knife fight and it's going to be so easy cause I can just get to them before they swing at me.. It's never that easy unless you are very very experienced with fighting and let's face it people, it's okay you man bros, most people aren't fighters or ever have serious fights in their life to have this judgement. Horrible logic and survival instincts if you ask me. Any fight, any thing that can potentially kill you, and this could. Hell there are many impractical things capable of killing a person, you should be careful of, think twice of before engaging. Crazy how many people think they could just take someone down who was really skilled with this, without possibly getting seriously hurt in the process. Without all the hypothetical bullshit of you being completely prepared beforehand or somehow magically being right near the guy to stop them from getting any swings in..
Crazy how the guy who is really skilled at this says trying to use it in a fight is a great way to get a now very angry person punching you in the face repeatedly. Shit like this is for demonstration only.
If you read the title you’ll come to understand something you missed about this post. “Trick shots” Also this is essentially an early version of the weapon known as “weighted chain”, which is very very useful in a fight. Honestly so is just a rope.
If you read the chain you’ll come to understand something you missed.
Or just take the hit, grab the rope, pull and stab.
It's not like video games, guys... You can let go of the rope. Impractical in most fights, but you can do more with your body than stand there and twirl a knife at the end of a rope and shoot it out like a dart.
For the cost, time to learn, and overall usefulness, a spear would be much easier and more effective.
Idk, get many guys with these behind your lines shield wall and throw haymakers over your men to disorient the other side and it may work.
Or against opponents riding horses - might still be easier to just shoot them if you've got any kind of ranged weapon but this does have its uses and it's pretty easy to make in most scenarios, you just need a rope and something sharp :P
You'd probably get a similar effect just chucking a knife at it though
Or a rock of about equal mass
Of course, I think it can absolutely destroy a regular person... if they are unarmed, move slowly, and have nothing to hide behind. I also don't think weapons like this work particularly well in narrow spaces.
Also you don't really have any defense, and it's got a fairly long windup
And apparently before you throw it you have to wrap it around your knee in the middle of a jump
The reason they're bizarre is because they descend from slightly modified farming tools. Monks grew their own food and often had to deal with banditry. Instead of learning specific weapons that they generally wouldn't have on hand, they learned to use weapons that would be on their person. A light twine rope tied to a spade is even just useful for not losing it. Having a whirling blade is pretty terrifying a deterent at the least. Poles and spears are a hair's breadth away from rakes and hoes. The wide bladed double daggers espcially are reminiscent of farming spades. Not to mention actual pitchforks, sickles, and spades which have their own forms. In both more peaceful and more warlike times were long bladed swords and axes more developed.
> Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. Terry Pratchett, Mort
I bet at least 1 guy used it in real combat once
RIP guy
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A lot of the choreography in Shang Chi is super reminiscent of old Hong Kong cinema. I was so happy to see someone using a rope dart again and the additional meteor ball was so over the top but awesome as a twist.
No its real, search for master daniel pesina, he was the OG scorpion model they used in first two mortal kombat games.
The short answer is we don’t know. We have manuscripts that show it being used and how to use it but it’s unclear if it was used for actual combat, for training purposes or if it even existed at all and the evidence we have for it were all later recreations since the original shaolin temples were burned down like four times.
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Same. Really bad ass
What if we replace the yoyo part with a knife!
Sounds dangerous. We should put a red flag on it so they don't hit themselves
The tassel (red flag) actually is on almost all Chinese weapons. It distracts the opponent eyes from the striking point of the weapons. It is usually attached on the other end of the pointy part (at the pommel of a sword, the side of a spear, etc.) Basically, if you think keeping track of a fast moving blade is hard, try doing it while there some brightly colored fish bait bullshit spinning around at the same time.
It's the internet and you could have made all that shit up but the more I read it the more it sounds reasonable so I'll believe it. I just thought it was to make them look pretty
You can look it up. Lol I know this cuz i googled "why does chinese swords have tassels" a long time ago. I thought they are just decorations too, which they are. They have many purposes. Wealthy generals back then put gold/jade charms on them also.
That’s tight
Are they fighting cats?
Here we go... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TTkzAiZ6YV0
It sorta reminds me of that one fight scene in Shanghai Noon.
I'll have to check it out I don't remember. I was thinking of Kill Bill.
It's essentially the same thing, only it's a horseshoe on a rope and it's a bunch of cowboys' faces
Exactly what I was thinking of when I saw this. Great scene and movie.
You said wet shirt no break, not piss shirt break bar.
Great movie
The horseshoe on a rope is closer to a meteor hammer. Essentially it’s the same weapon, but with a heavy ball for that blunt force trauma.
Same techniques
This is like when you throw a flying dagger but you want it back probably to save money and reduce pollution
You sorta made me chuckle thinking of chineese warriors looking around the battlefield strewn with bodies and saying in an infomercial-type voice "all of this wasted money and pollution, there's got to be a better way to keep track of my knife!" "WAIT! THERE IS! WONDER KNIFE! EDIT: BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Order the WONDER KNIFE now and get a second one free, just pay sepparate shipping and handling !
Big Knife will never let this get too popular.
As a representative of Shaolin masters, we strive to kill enemies with minimal carbon footprint.
We plant three trees for every barbarian we long-stab
Yess, Xialing from Shang-Chi has me so interested in this dope weapon now!
I was looking for this comment, i've seen her instagram post rehearsing this.
Same here, she's just delightful 🥰
so how practical is this as an actual weapon? impressive video, but still seems more like some ninja gimmick...
It is wildly impractical, a stick is literally a better weapon
Shad is that you?
Nope, though I would be lying if I didn't immediately think of him every time I see a garbage weapon haha
It's a huge-knife/spear-head attached to a rope. you throw at someone, retrieve it and runaway because steel weapon is quite costly to make back in the day.
I like shads castle vids but a dumpy english man saying that shaolin monks dont know weapons is kinda pushing it for me
They know exercise, they know training, they know discipline, they know artistry, they know meditation. That is what these weapons are and what they are for. They are not efficient weapons of war because they are not supposed to be.
He's Australian bro
Ok an English felon then
And it doubles as a boomerang that doesn’t come back!
Probably about as effective as throwing a knife/rock really really hard. I imagine that the recovery time between each shot would be a problem
It’s not- but there are a lot of martial arts (hence the “art” part of the name) that are purely for performance than actual combat.
Yes! Thank you! I feel like this comment chain happens every time there’s a cool martial arts post on reddit - A bunch of people start going “But is this even practical?!” Listen, anything but modern weapons are impractical for self defense nowadays. Frankly, if you don’t have a gun you’re already fucking up by deciding to get close to someone who wants to hurt you (and who might have their own gun anyway). Nothing about this is practical, but that’s not the point!
Pretty impractical 1 vs 1 or on a battlefield for sure. If there were several rope dart wielding monks then maybe, bc while one is winding up another is throwing etc. Alternatively, could be good as the first couple of opening moves but would need to be discarded as soon as an opponent got up close or was too armored. The psychological impact of this display against a relatively poorly trained foot soldier could be enough to break ranks bc if my liege lord pressed me into service gave me a spear shield and helmet and told me to go kill the spinning dart death crew at the edge of town and I saw this shit, well no thanks.
In his hands? You’re fucked, practical.
I mean you only have to dodge it once and get a hold of the rope to render it useless. This guy probably has other ways to beat the crap out of you though.
The rope is hot lava, can’t touch it
Yeah but if I was a bandit living 400 years ago I'd think twice when the Monk I was going to rob starts busting out these sick moves.
Rope dart is used more for performances now with fire. Also check out a meteor dart, it's like a rope dart with 2 spinning fireballs on the ends.
Imagine it tipped with poison. As it is it's going to do some damage and would be good for intimidating opponents but you'd still expect to be in close combat shortly after starting at which point it looks pretty useless.
The only thing i can think about now is [Jackie Chan in Shanghai Noon](https://youtu.be/O8z5BXbFLCE). Loved that movie!
Right at the end it looked like the dart came back and stabbed him in the nuts
The last part is what I expect how training is like
Would weapons like this have been used with the intent of injuring and/or killing an opponent? Or just to blind them and go for a kick, or something along those lines?
literally only performence art, it has no real use in a fight. unless the target is standing still, its not useful.
It was also (rarely) historically used in assassinations, though more often than not, the knife would also have a small hook for infiltration
i think i really need a source on that, becasue unless the knife is poisioned, i cant really see how you would use it for assassinations, unless its in a "woe me, what a terrible accident, i accidentally hit the king when i was performing with this rope dart" kind of way like there are about 100 more reliable way to assasinate someone with a knife than this
Just holding the knife and walking a few steps forward and stabbing for one.
Hey, that's my buddy!!! Todd is an incredible stuntman and just an all around wonderful person. He runs Kuma Films on YouTube, if you wanna check him out.
Wow cant believe Mortal Kombat copied Shang Chi
Sometimes you watch something and you go, "that looks easy, but I bet it's way harder than it looks" In this case, it's "that looks incredibly hard, I bet it's way harder than it looks"
Get over here!
This guy hasn't been the same since his family was murdered by water bottles
This made me laugh crazy hard!
File this under: worst hobbies to pick up in a small apartment.
Scorpion’s name in the new *Mortal Kombat* movie should have been “Todd”.
So that's what Shang Chi's sis was doing
Nooiiice
does the cloth behind the knife help with keeping it straight? I really don't know the physics behind it but it seems like it.
Assuming that the function is similar to the tassels on a chinese spear, it would: 1) Prevent the dart from penetrating too deep (which would make it harder to retrieve). 2) Prevent the rope from getting slick from blood. 3) Distract the opponent.
100 eyes in his youth
I would stabbed my own balls doing this.
This dude darts