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Superman has died!

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

Post Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:49 pm

Poor guy, being paralized must have been awful.
I'm glad his suffering was ended.

Post Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:31 am

just an Off-Topic note,

OK. *Drops kusari* then....Yes. The weapon, a kusari gama is, in essence a "chain scythe."

For those of you who don't know what these are, here are the pictures.
A KusariGama is essentially made up of a Kusari (Chain) and a Gama or Kama (don't know the exact translation, but I do know its bordering on scythe)

The Weapon is supposedly a Ninja Weapon, because of its stealth and disarming and killing cababilities. Here is an exact Transcript

This long range blade and chain weapon is another favorite of the ninja. The chain could be used to entangle and pull in the enemy to finish with the blade. Some kusarigama had hand guards atached to the lower handle for finger and hand protection. The kusarigama was a single edge blade mounted to a wooden handle, a chain of nine to twleve feet was affixed at the end. A iron weight was attached to the end of the chain. On some kusarigama the chain is attached to the bottom end of the handle while others it is attached to where the handle meets the blade. The blade could be used to thrust, slash, chop, and swing. The handle could deflect strike and block. The chain could strangle, ensnare, whip, and aid in trap making. The weight served as a frail or missile
Credit to Martial arts.com.

Edit: Pics didn't quite work out so I made em into linky's. If anyone still has trouble seeing them, let me know and ill try to sort it out.

Edited by - Locutus on 10/14/2004 7:07:22 AM

Post Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:24 am

Thanks Loc.

Sickle is a better translataion for kama/gama. BTW when the word, kama, attaches to another word such as kusari, the preceding "i" (vowel) sound is allowed to make the "k" sound in kama elide into a "g" sound as in gama.

A sickle is a hand scythe but a scythe is a two handed tool so my translation was incorrect.

Edited by - Indy11 on 10/14/2004 1:54:51 PM

IBT

Post Thu Oct 14, 2004 4:10 pm

@Tawakalna
oh yeah, forgot that no excercise can do that...

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