Swordchuck cameos.

[Bordum]

So I was watching this, and suddenly: SWORDCHUCKS. That got me to thinking, what else had swordchucks? I think I recall some character from Kenshin using them as well. So, I dedicate this thread to swordchuck cameos.

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[Archgeek]

Gwahaha, I was wonder when that'd turn up in here. Here's another unit of shiny Fate <strike>Riot Zanber</strike> Swordchuck action:

http://students.ou.edu/W/Daniel.P.Wilson-1/Stuff/Fate-SwordChucks.png

[Xaeta]

.....right.

[AMRIV]

One of the captains in Bleach also had a set of sword chucks, the white haired guy with poor health I believe.

[Ryong]

Ukitake ( the guy from Bleach the previous poster mentioned ) uses two swords on a chain, but since he wields both swords ( as in, he's not flailing around one of the swords ) at the same time, one on each hand, they're not technically sword-chucks, I guess.

[Telephalsion]

Ukitake ( the guy from Bleach the previous poster mentioned ) uses two swords on a chain, but since he wields both swords ( as in, he's not flailing around one of the swords ) at the same time, one on each hand, they're not technically sword-chucks, I guess.

But he could chuck them if he wanted to.

[Ryong]

But he doesn't. I think it's more to the point that the sword-chucks actually need the user to chuck them, otherwise they're just two swords on a chain. I know it doesn't make any sense, but that's how it seems to me.

[grthwllms]

Nooope.

In chinese they're Nunchaku, You're taking the chucks part of it into it's english definition, when really it's just what we use becuase it's the closest thing in our language.

Edit: Nunchucks are Nunchaku, I don't know what sword is in chinese, but take that and put Chaku in.

[Demetrius]

Kenchaku? It does have a certain ring to it...

[Yrcrazypa]

I know theres a quest in EQ2 dealing with giving someone sword chucks. At least there used to be one. If it still exists, its somewhere in Freeport.

[Ryong]

Well, if you're talking especifically about sword-chucks, they're the ones based on Brian's idea of how Fighter came up with the idea of using them. Two swords on a chain aren't especifically sword-chucks unless they're meant to be used with one hand ( so that one sword is flailing around ), not one sword in each hand, thus making the chain just be a problem for the user.

[The SSB Intern]

Ukitake ( the guy from Bleach the previous poster mentioned ) uses two swords on a chain, but since he wields both swords ( as in, he's not flailing around one of the swords ) at the same time, one on each hand, they're not technically sword-chucks, I guess.
...Why on Earth does he have the swords on a chain, then?

[Demetrius]

The chain in the middle allows the user to catch an attacker's weapon and counter attack, effectively creating the "three-sectional sword."

[Aerozord]

Its true we dont see ukitake chuck them, but if I remember correctly we dont even see him swing them.

[Ryong]

We do see him fight in the games, though, and he doesn't chuck them there. The chain is just for showing off. I mean, you try to use two swords with a chain attached to them.

[ArlanKels]

It's all ONE sword, that's why. zanpakto's or whatever the hell you say it need to be one solid object, whether it be via a chain or something else. That's why the two-sword ones have something connecting them together. In the end it's still one solid object, not two.

[Telephalsion]

It's all ONE sword, that's why. zanpakto's or whatever the hell you say it need to be one solid object, whether it be via a chain or something else. That's why the two-sword ones have something connecting them together. In the end it's still one solid object, not two.

What about Captain-Chill? His dual scimitars are not connected, even in their sealed state they are separate.

[42PETUNIAS]

Don't forget chainsaw-chucks, from Dr. McNinja.

[Aerozord]

Don't forget chainsaw-chucks, from Dr. McNinja.
Well all try to forget about chainsaw-chucks for fear that if too many think about something that awesome the universe might implode

[Ryong]

There's also that guy with the zanpakuto that is a bunch of shurikens, all unconnected. And yeah, we need to forget about the chainsaw-chucks or else the universe will implode of awesome.

[Elminster_Amaur]

In chinese they're NunchakuNo. No, they're not. That is the Japanese pronunciation of the original Chinese word, which is not nunchaku. Anyway, the weapon supposedly originated in China when a great Emperor had his favorite staff cut at the tip in a battle. Instead of throwing away the staff and replacing it, he had the end re-attached with a chain. Thus, the Sweeper was born. Eventually, the Sweeper evolved from a long two-sectional staff into two different weapons: the three sectional staff and the short two-sectional staff, aka the nunchaku. I don't remember the original Chinese for the nunchaku, but I'm pretty sure about the history of the weapon presented here. I have "connections" to the second southern Shaolin temple (both burned down), and that person (my Sifu) is the one who told this story to me originally. Anyway, it never really caught on in China, until Bruce Lee, anyway.

Anyway, I saw someone wielding bokken-chucks (or is it wooden-sword-chucks?) a while back. Oh, no, wait...that was me. I also vaguely remember hitting myself in the head with them.

[Tyrfing]

Bardiche is sword-chucks now? I need to catch up with StrikerS

No. No, they're not. That is the Japanese pronunciation of the original Chinese word, which is not nunchaku. Anyway, the weapon supposedly originated in China when a great Emperor had his favorite staff cut at the tip in a battle. . . .

It's a flail, it's used to harvest things, maybe rice. Then they realised that anything heavy that hits crops is also heavy when it hits people.

[Corn]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that a lot of Asian weapons have origins like that.(except the katana, that was actually made to be a weapon XD)
Tonfas were some kind of handle methinks...can't remember what for.

[msisden]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that a lot of Asian weapons have origins like that.(except the katana, that was actually made to be a weapon XD)
Tonfas were some kind of handle methinks...can't remember what for.

From what I recall from my martial arts classes way back when, the tonfa was originally a handle for turning millstones. Okinawans (sp?) adapted them (and a number of other tools) into weapons due to weapons restrictions.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and it is pretty neat what people can do with these things.

[Tyrfing]

Yeah I'm pretty sure that a lot of weapons have origins like that.

Fixed. Most weapons everywhere were developed from simple tools... in fact they ended up as simple tools too. ;) They just seem to be more common in Eastern weaponry.

From what I recall from my martial arts classes way back when, the tonfa was originally a handle for turning millstones. Okinawans (sp?) adapted them (and a number of other tools) into weapons due to weapons restrictions.

Off the top of my head I think you are right.

A Bo is just a walking stick... Rokushakubo = Six foot stick (I thin that a shaku is slightly less than 1 foot but who's counting?)
A Kama is a Sickle
Sai were for planting seeds (IIRC)

[Jagos]

Nunchucks were for beating wheat in Okinawa.

and when did this thread turn into a debate about the origin of swords? :p

[Corn]

From what I recall from my martial arts classes way back when, the tonfa was originally a handle for turning millstones. Okinawans (sp?) adapted them (and a number of other tools) into weapons due to weapons restrictions.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and it is pretty neat what people can do with these things.

Goddamn, that's what it was...It's been forever since I took MY martial arts class.

(For anyone interested, it was a style called Tang-Su-Do, which is the Korean style Tai-Kwon-do developed from. Tang-su-do roughly translates into "art of the knife hand" in Korean if I'm not mistaken.)