What Type of Weapons Are Used in Karate?
There are dozens of different kinds of weapons used in karate. Different styles of the martial art study different weapons. Most of these are variations of five main types. These are the bo staff, nunchaku, tonfa, sai, and kama. They are traditional karate weapons developed on the island of Okinawa by the original practitioners of karate. All of these karate weapons evolved from simple farming tools. They were developed when swords and other obvious weapons were outlawed for peasants in feudal Japan.
