• Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
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    8 天前

    Yeah, it reminded me of one of those Taekwondo safety videos where the opponent isn’t allowed to do anything to stop them. A shield or some armor would easily negate them swinging the ball end around. A properly timed charge probably could to. Just body-blocking it probably wouldn’t be that big of a deal.

    • teft@piefed.social
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      8 天前

      They mostly weren’t used in combat since you could hurt your allies with it. It was used to chase away bandits or thieves. They are also called kusarigama (sickle-ball).