Chinese (or other country) sai/parrying weapon

Timo Nieminen · 16th September 2014, 12:41 AM

Probably Chinese. These were also used in Indonesia, Okinawa, and elsewhere. Indonesian ones have pommels similar to Chinese ones, so far as I have seen.

They were used as police truncheons (like jutte/jitte in Japan), not just as martial arts weapons.

Sai in English, which is from the Japanese, from Chinese chai. The character 釵 also means "hairpin".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_(weapon)

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16th September 2014, 12:41 AM	#4
Timo Nieminen Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 422	Probably Chinese. These were also used in Indonesia, Okinawa, and elsewhere. Indonesian ones have pommels similar to Chinese ones, so far as I have seen. They were used as police truncheons (like jutte/jitte in Japan), not just as martial arts weapons. Sai in English, which is from the Japanese, from Chinese chai. The character 釵 also means "hairpin". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_(weapon)