Three Amazing Martial Arts Weapons Training Drills!

Three Amazing Martial Arts Weapons Training Drills!

In all the martial arts weapons history, of all the martial arts styles I have learned and practiced, the three training methods I am about to share with you are the best. They are simple, don't require much in the way of equipment, and increase your perceptions beyond the five senses. They do require that you come to understand a different way of thinking.

I played with the tonfa, and the sickles, and those kinds of weapons, and I realized something: a weapon is a line. Nun chucks have a hinge, tonfas have handles, even a pistol projects its bullets on a straight line. Even a sword, appearing curved, is a straight line being moved in an arc.

Understanding this, I developed two specific drills: one was thrusting, and the other was cutting. Yes, there is always using a handle to butt, or some other odd technique, but everything should revolve around these two things: poking and slicing. Thus I came up with two specific methods of training.

One method involved hanging a tire from a tree limb, and cut it so it turns one way, and then cut it again so it rotates the other way. If tire begins to swing, I cut it so that the swing is halted, and the turning is once again started. You will find that using a martial arts sword in this particular manner develops incredible finesse.

The second drill I developed using self defense weapons had to do with the straight thrust. I hung a six inch circle from a tree and practiced thrusting a pole through the center, making sure not to touch any sides of the circle. I wanted to make my thrust straight and true, and not have it deflected by any extra contact.

I took a year's vacation and practiced these two strikes, hour after hour, day after day. It was a rigorous and intense martial arts training time, but it really worked. I could feel my muscles become solid and thick, and my strikes were becoming effortless, and then I developed my third training method.

I jumped into my car and slid the key into the slot. I blinked, and suddenly saw the similarity to thrusting with a sword, so I closed my eyes and practiced putting the key in without the benefit of eyes. Then I fastened a key to the end of a martial arts pole, attached a lock to a wall, and practiced inserting the key without using my eyes.

This was a logical development of the weapon, and a logical development of my physical into the spiritual and ethereal realms. Doing this trains one to appreciate the space that surrounds oneself, as opposed to having to look at the space one is in with the eyes. I totally recommend these martial arts weapons training methods if you want to make your art go far beyond what is normally taught in martial arts training halls.

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