The sci fi show star trek came up with the klingons a warrior race there favored weapon being the sword of honor or bat leth.

A man practicing hung gar found it and is now useing it wing lam is seling one on there site.
This weapon is close to one and from what I have seen is used in a similar maner.


I got a batleth and love it
Dan Curry who invented the batleth based the batleth on the Chinese crescent huked weapons and also based the klingon style mok bara off of tae chi tae kwondo and muay thai the Korean Martial Arts Association has recognized it as the first new bladed weapon approved for use in a long time.
Does anyone have a batleth what are your thoughts on the weapon.

In this book he has made his weapon longer to make it more able to defend low blowes.






I wish I had a way to demonstrate some techniques against some one but I can't at the moment due to there being only me and my brother here in this cramped room.
the weapon can hook other weapons up and than attack as low as behind the knee or a stab to the side all in the same motion it can be griped in the midle to add reach which can be done fairly fast by simply slideing your hand down during a swing.
The moves are done in a fluid motion and rarly do you need to take your hands off of it to chang positions here in my pics I did a few time to let people see it from the other side.
its sort of like haveing an axe spear staff and sword all in one as for weight my batleth is about 4 lbs or so not realy that heavy.

I do not have any training with weapons I read books watch videos and use my martial arts training to help me understand weapons I have done lots of research on weapons and how they were used as a kid I loved weapons and armor and spent a lot of time looking through books on historic weapons from all over the world I have colected weapons since i was ten.



HetaQ or Chet Braun is conected with Wing Lam Hung Gar where his book can be found Chet Braun was featured in the November 2002 issue of INSIDE KUNG FU.
In the february 2005 issue of inside kung fu the batleth apeard in a 6pg artical

separate technique block up high and cut low to the leg


All though this is not a true martial arts weapon and this book and the people useing the weapon are acting as if they were Klingons this is ment to be a sirius look at a weapon most would normaly over look Chet Braun has taken a good look at the batleth and has found it to be worth the time and efort to come up with forms.
My first post about this with comments
http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=1942515