Tamagusari: The Lethal Ball & Chain of the Samurai

[@shadown5757]

Great instruction, thank you 🙏🏻

[@josepruiz2465]

just yesterday i built a flail for hema practice, looking for something to learn here, always a fan of Seki Sensei

[@WhiteApeMA]

Very interesting! I specialize in a similar Chinese weapon called the meteor hammer. Longer, and uses rope as opposed to chain. There is also jiu jie bian nine section chain. This was very fascinating and I can see some new applications that could work for each weapon. My respects to Seki Sensei.

[@daniel_miller_]

Budo Brothers featuring Seki Sensei again! Awesome. Tamagusari/ Chain is one of my favorite weapons in Japanese martial arts. Like the Jo, it's a pretty deceptively effective weapon if you learn to wield it properly. And who better to teach the fundamentals and intricacies of this weapon than Seki Sensei?

[@blindcrow849]

An interresting concept that helped me in my kusari fundo/Tamagusari training is considering it as some kind of "soft" or "flexible" hanbo.

[@rooroo9216]

Apparently this is the same weapon that nearly killed Musashi. He had his sword tangled and when the enemy was about to reel him in and finish him off with the Kama attached to the opposite end to the weight. I think they said he threw a tanto or killed the person first with it or something. I vaguely remember it from a documentary about him decades ago, that’s why my memory is so bad lol

[@talamioros]

I saw one of the many Japanese movies about Musashi where it showed him running into the reel instead of resisting it, so he closed with the opponent faster than he expected, got inside his guard, unsheathed his opponent's blade, and killed him with it instead of trying to free his own blade

[@joaoguilhermebastos519]

If it has a kama atached it's actually a kusarigama. I know, pesky nomenclature details but you seem to enjoy kwowing stuff

[@rooroo9216]

@ ah yeah that rings a bell, that’s a pretty smart thing to do actually because the first thing the enemy would expect a person to do is fight against it, resist and untangle the blade

[@rooroo9216]

@ I had a feeling it might’ve been a different name. No worries it’s fine :D I’m a weapon nerd and always have been lol, have loads of books from different categories, it’s been a while since reading them though

[@FuryoTokkosho]

Bastos is right, ball and chain is a different weapon. Its more similiar to the chinese Double Meteor Hammer skill and was mostly used by bouncers on the door of some place

[@bigcatproductions2789]

I would like to get a closer look at the Ball and Chain .

[@FarmerDrew]

The same thing killed Dale Earnhardt, converting linear momentum to angular momentum.

[@TripsEU]

best technique!!!

[@williamfeliciano8980]

That looks VERY cool and yet it leaves me wondering if that chain can really stop a sword full swing because it seems like an attack done with force would break through.

[@rooroo9216]

Maybe not break through the chain, but break through the block yeah. I was wondering if it would be better rather than blocking it straight and full on, if maybe holding it at a slight angle, time it, step off angle, turn and move down with the sword as you grab it and then wrap it? It’s hard for me to explain it with just text

[@williamfeliciano8980]

@@rooroo9216 Break through the block is exactly what I meant. 👍

[@jonathandutrahartmann2043]

​@@williamfeliciano8980 if done properly i think the chain will not break, if the tension is high enough the chance of the "block" break is the same as with a sword, doing the right way is using all the lenght of the chain, so i suppose there will be no space left for the chain

[@Yggdraseed]

@@rooroo9216 If you notice, when he demonstrates blocking with the chain, he doesn't hold it in one place. Once he receives the attack, he slides the chain down towards the tsuba to attack the hand and disarm. Meeting force with force would probably mean that blocking with the chain would lose, but he does show redirection instead.

[@pranakhan]

@@Yggdraseed Yes. I would imagine that, used against high quality swords, there would only be a limited number of times you could use this technique before the chain was compromised. That said, it is an interesting "emergency case" weapon for self defense

[@zerokool-13-0]

Where do I get a ball and chain?

[@alterego157]

Get married

[@rmsg7504]

Ebay has many made in Japan

[@samimakiwara8584]

Hello. and can you put subtitles in all languages please 😊

[@carlospadilla9119]

its like Kusari fundo techniques?

[@jaketheasianguy3307]

Same concept, slightly different kind of weight at the end

[@thisguy7010]

Kusari fundo

[@alterego157]

Dude, it's 2024. Don't be medieval.

[@divinecreation6]

Lots of people clearly care about these

[@alexglock6061]

Why don’t you do these at full speed? Oh I know why because they don’t work!😂

[@philippweiensteiner2750]

Because it's for teaching, training and showing purposes. To do it in a safe way you choose speed you can easily handle without harming yourself or your opponent. If you have to use these techniques in a serious situation you won't matter much about injuring your attacker.

[@stevetaranto6732]

Correct, plus techniques arent one technique beats all, it depends on the situation

[@deeem6407]

This ryuha is nearly 400 years old. If the techniques didn't work, it wouldnt have survived this long... Btw, who are you again? What's your experience and expertise?

[@jerrypanela]

​@@deeem6407 expertise is as keyboard warrior. 😁

[@deeem6407]

@@jerrypanela Indeed.