A Martial Arts Weapon You Can Throw Without Throwing Away
One of the basic martial arts weapons of all time is a rock. A rock is hard, it can be heavy, and you can knock any stupid Goliath down with it. The only problem with this weapon is that once you have thrown it, you have thrown it away.
Yikes! Goliath's big brother is charging, you're out of rocks, and you frantically scour the ground! Too late, Goliath's big brother tackles you and knocks you worse than senseless.
Now I am not concerned with a sling here, though I used it for the example, I am concerned about the availability of good, hard stones. Wouldn't you like to be able to throw a rather large pebble, keep the criminals at a distance, and be able to throw that pebble again and again? You can, if you know how to tie a simple little knot called The Monkey's Fist.
The concept behind the Monkey's Fist (you can find instructions of how to make one on a good vid channel) is that you wrap rope around a stone so that the rope becomes a sturdy knot around the stone. Thus, you throw the Monkey's Fist, and then you just pull it back to you. And then you can reuse it over and over!
The concept of this unique knot came from a simple naval maneuver. Two boats in the ocean come together in high seas and they want to tie together so they can pass passengers or freight over the waves. A sailor throws a rope across to the other boat, but the rope falls into the water, and the sailor loses his footing and falls into the ocean, too.
To make this trick of tying two ships together at sea work, the Monkey's Knot was developed. A knot was tied around a small cannon shot, and then the sailor could swing the thing and throw it across the waves. It wasn't long before sailors realized that a carefully thrown shot in a rope could knock the bejesus out of a sailor on the other ship.
In concept, this martial arts weapon is a simple sort of rope dart. Still, there is a lot of substance to a lead ball, and it can cause a lot of damage. Thus, it became an active weapon during incidents between fighting ships.
Used to tie two ships together, crack a foe's skull, or entrap an unsuspecting bad guy, the Monkey's Fist became a quite useful tool. You could throw it and it could be easily be used again. This is a cool martial arts weapon that Joe Average can make and have a lot of fun with.
Yikes! Goliath's big brother is charging, you're out of rocks, and you frantically scour the ground! Too late, Goliath's big brother tackles you and knocks you worse than senseless.
Now I am not concerned with a sling here, though I used it for the example, I am concerned about the availability of good, hard stones. Wouldn't you like to be able to throw a rather large pebble, keep the criminals at a distance, and be able to throw that pebble again and again? You can, if you know how to tie a simple little knot called The Monkey's Fist.
The concept behind the Monkey's Fist (you can find instructions of how to make one on a good vid channel) is that you wrap rope around a stone so that the rope becomes a sturdy knot around the stone. Thus, you throw the Monkey's Fist, and then you just pull it back to you. And then you can reuse it over and over!
The concept of this unique knot came from a simple naval maneuver. Two boats in the ocean come together in high seas and they want to tie together so they can pass passengers or freight over the waves. A sailor throws a rope across to the other boat, but the rope falls into the water, and the sailor loses his footing and falls into the ocean, too.
To make this trick of tying two ships together at sea work, the Monkey's Knot was developed. A knot was tied around a small cannon shot, and then the sailor could swing the thing and throw it across the waves. It wasn't long before sailors realized that a carefully thrown shot in a rope could knock the bejesus out of a sailor on the other ship.
In concept, this martial arts weapon is a simple sort of rope dart. Still, there is a lot of substance to a lead ball, and it can cause a lot of damage. Thus, it became an active weapon during incidents between fighting ships.
Used to tie two ships together, crack a foe's skull, or entrap an unsuspecting bad guy, the Monkey's Fist became a quite useful tool. You could throw it and it could be easily be used again. This is a cool martial arts weapon that Joe Average can make and have a lot of fun with.
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