One of the martial arts weapons that has existed from caveman times is a rock. A rock is hard, and you can knock any stupid Goliath down with it. The only problem with this weapon is that once you have used it, it is gone.
Cripes! Goliath's larger sister is charging, you're out of rocks, and you frantically search the earth! Too late, Goliath's larger sister sacks you and kicks your noggin until it is dumb.
Now I am not exactly talking about a sling here, though I used it for the example, I am talking about the finding of a basic rock. Wouldn't you like to be able to throw a rock, keep the bad guys at a distance, and yet have that rock come right back to your hand? You can, if you know how to tie a simple little knot called The Monkey's Fist.
The idea behind the Monkey's fist (you can find a video of how to make one on youtube) is that you wrap rope around a rock so that the rope becomes a knot around the rock. Thus, you throw the Monkey's Fist, and then you just pull on the rope and it comes back to you. And then you can throw it again and again!
The notion of this really cool martial arts weapon came from a simple naval procedure. Two vessels come together in rough seas and they want to tie to each other so they can exchange passengers or cargo or whatever. So one sailor tosses a rope to the other boat, but the end of the rope falls into the drink, and the sailor slips and falls into the sea, too.
To make this technique of tying two vessels together at sea work, the Monkey's Knot was created. A knot was tied around a small lead shot, and then the sailor could swing the thing and be sure it would reach the other vessel. It wasn't long before clever fellows realized that a carefully thrown shot could knock the holy heck out of a guy 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.
Cripes! Goliath's larger sister is charging, you're out of rocks, and you frantically search the earth! Too late, Goliath's larger sister sacks you and kicks your noggin until it is dumb.
Now I am not exactly talking about a sling here, though I used it for the example, I am talking about the finding of a basic rock. Wouldn't you like to be able to throw a rock, keep the bad guys at a distance, and yet have that rock come right back to your hand? You can, if you know how to tie a simple little knot called The Monkey's Fist.
The idea behind the Monkey's fist (you can find a video of how to make one on youtube) is that you wrap rope around a rock so that the rope becomes a knot around the rock. Thus, you throw the Monkey's Fist, and then you just pull on the rope and it comes back to you. And then you can throw it again and again!
The notion of this really cool martial arts weapon came from a simple naval procedure. Two vessels come together in rough seas and they want to tie to each other so they can exchange passengers or cargo or whatever. So one sailor tosses a rope to the other boat, but the end of the rope falls into the drink, and the sailor slips and falls into the sea, too.
To make this technique of tying two vessels together at sea work, the Monkey's Knot was created. A knot was tied around a small lead shot, and then the sailor could swing the thing and be sure it would reach the other vessel. It wasn't long before clever fellows realized that a carefully thrown shot could knock the holy heck out of a guy 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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