Question about Filipino weapons, doubled edged and/or two handed.

[David]

Originally Posted by Rafngard

I think it's not so much surprising as confirming that the moro kris was used in ways different than the arts that are openly pracriced today.

I thought that maybe, because:

1) the moro kris is unique (i.e.the only doubled-edged sword) in the Phillipines,
2) the basic design was based on the smaller indonesian keris and
3) the schools that teach openly don't teach false edge cuts

Maybe it was used like all other swords in the Phillipines, and used only with true edge cuts. However, the nicks on false edge disprove that possibility.

So more than anything, I really want to know what Moro fighting arts with the kris were like.

Thanks,
Leif

At the risk of raising the ire of some of our martial arts aficionados, i think that the difference between what is taught in martial arts schools and what actually took place in battle is probably night and day. That is not to say that certain martial arts techniques were not employed, but when one is truly in a life or death situation anything goes. Obviously if the back edge of the Moro kris was not meant to be used it would not be sharpened to the same razor-edged sharpness as the front edge, right?