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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.

when I can I will post some pics of actual techniques there are some things I don't like about the batleth like the fact that its hard to not go blade to blade wile bloking. I need to work on that one some more but its posible one thing I like about it is that most of the blocks alow you to strik at the same time. The fact that an instructor of hung gar came up with a form for it amazed me he even wrote a book Secret Fighting Arts of The Warrior Race.

As for you being an a** I don't think you are I laugh every time I see the people sparing with each other on the net with paded batleths they do not have any real training as far as I know with any weapons or unarmed skill and use some techniques you would never be able to do with this like swing it one handed I can but you wouldnt be able to do much very fast you always have two hands on it.

I still have more stuff to come so bare with me.

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I havent found any real big problems with this weapon like I said its only like 4lbs or so. The hand grips on my weapon are paded and not awkward at all. All though its heavyer than a staff I can move almost as fast and keeping with my wing chun lesons I can block and attack in baisickly the same motion.

Any way I probably would use a chinese saber or the butterfly knives if I had to use something I like swords more than most other weapons.

Umm yeah. Weapons that have never been tested in battle? When seeing them on the show they always seemed VERY impractical to me, just because of the weight a proper one must be, the akward way you hold it, and the form of the blade. Personally I wouldn't waste my time trying to learn to, well use it for show. But well, everybody is different. (I know the one talked about here isn't that heavy, but it was just a recap of what I thought from the show.)

And besides, this is the most dorky thing I ever saw. (just kidding about that part.... )

You can have the weird looking weapons then biggrin . I'd love to see a glowing lamp that can really cut through metal though.. mrgreen

Ah I see your view. Thanks for keeping both feet on earth Well then I hope you have fun with it! mrgreen

So could Chuck Norris ninja

Yup, and that piece of metal that it can cut, is a 1mm thick sheet of aluminum foil ... mrgreen