Weapons built around a chain, rope or flexible link, mostly from East Asian martial traditions, including the nunchaku, the kusarigama, the chain whip and the Chinese iron whip. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a chain, whip or flexible-linked weapon. It excludes rigid clubs and maces, which sit in the striking weapons group. Chain weapons spread through Japanese and Chinese martial arts and were prized for reach and for the way they can wrap an opponent weapon, and several began as farm tools or tools of the household.
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Wikipedia: Nunchaku
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The nunchaku (, US: ) (Japanese: ヌンチャク; sometimes "dual-section stick", "nunchuks" (), "nunchucks", "chainsticks", or "chuka sticks" in English) is a traditional East-Asian martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks (traditionally made of wood), connected to each other at their ends by a short metal chain or a rope.
Wikipedia: Kusarigama
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A kusarigama (Japanese: 鎖鎌; lit. "chain-sickle") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo, a type of metal chain (kusari) with a heavy iron weight (fundo) at the end.
Wikipedia: Chain whip
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The chain whip, also known as the soft whip, is a weapon used in some Chinese martial arts, particularly traditional Chinese disciplines, in addition to modern and traditional wushu.
Wikipedia: Bian (weapon)
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The bian (Chinese: 鞭; pinyin: biān; lit. 'whip') or tie bian (Chinese: 鐵鞭; lit. 'iron whip') and gang bian (Chinese: 鋼鞭; lit. 'steel whip'), also known as Chinese whip or hard whip, is a type of tubular-shaped club or rod weapon designed to inflict blunt damage with whipping motion.
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