Klingon Batleth

Jonathan: actually i have a fair bit of martial arts experience under my belt and i am looking at the bat'leth not in a fictional capacity but looking at it with the eyes of a martial artist who has been using many different weapons for years. Darth Maul's blade can be made in a real world capacity just with steel instead of laserbeamness. You could probably make a bat'leth from real world steels if you strategically placed cutouts to lighten the blade. I already presented weapons such as monk spades, they are highly effective double ended weapons. The bat'leth is based on the mechanics of staff, axe, sword and shield. There are many ways you can use a bat'leth and switching grips happens alot with spears and staves and the monk spade. Or how about the sun, earth moon and star weapon? That is alot like a bat'leth in the mechanics of its use. Also a spear with buttspike/cap can be used as a double ended weapon, the cap doesn't necessarily get used as a back up. The weapon i specialize in is staff weapons so i can see where you could apply those techniques with a bat'leth. As far as i know from ramm he has some fencing training and possibly some european sword training? As far as i know he doesn't have much if any training in staff weapons or pole weapons or dagger fighting or axe fighting.

An example of a highly effective chinese staff weapon

here is another one



The egyptians also had a staff weapon with double ended razor sharp crescents that relied on rapidly twirling the staff in figure eights as one of the main forms of attack.

and how about this

Yep basically like that but a crescent on either end and the crescents are wider.

Planning on fighting any wars with melee weapons Ram? I'm personally more interested in the duel, but regardless, skills in one help skills in the other.

Anyway, as already said, the weight of bat'leths keeps them from being used in reality. Had we access to a material that was lighter, I'm sure they could be used as an effective weapon.

Also, take a look at these things:
Some double weapons:

Big weapons, handled simlarly to bat'leths:




All courtesy of Meister Talhoffer

I have seen those pictures from Talhofer and similar ones in the Gladiatoria. They bring out the extent to which people did use a large assortment of unique weapons throughout history. Only the most common ones survived or were featured in art.

The Chinese staff weapons that Bloodwraith posted is close enough in design to pass for batleth. They Star Trek version would be used in a similar manor to the Chinese original. So that answers my question: If Batleths were used in human history.

Northern style batleth set:

Reminds me of Darth Maul.

Defensive moves are for WOMEN!

Normally, when people fight, there is at least one other person. Looks pretty silly when there's only one guy.

Agreed - nice flow but poor power and LOTS of openings. There are several spots where if his hit had been dodged or parried that he would have been completely screwed.

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