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Friday, March 24

A Break from Tradition

Breaking from the vein of the day (in the comic sense, at least), here's another link (listen to it too! it's not complete without sound!). This one was borne of an argument over whether Darth Maul's lightsabre is a lightsabre (lightsaber for you yanks) or a bowstaff. I think I won on the lightsabre business (it's a lightsabre), but holy smokes, kudos to derek for pointing me towards that seven year old. egads...

[edit: it's also been confirmed that "bowstaff" is actually not a word.. heehee... it's the type of staff that is called a Bo. Nancy Drew teaches you stuff like that.. (at least as long as you can read it and not feel ill for doing so....)]

3 Comments:

Blogger D-Rock said...

Oh, for Pete's sake ... who cares what it's called. I just called it a bowstaff so you would know *what* I was talking about.

Next time I'll just say "Darth Maul's lightsabre" ... 'cause that's shorter and easier to say than "bowstaff." *shakes head*

25/3/06 18:28

 
Blogger D-Rock said...

*chuckles* True enough.. Although "bo" is our English shortened form of the actual Japanese term, "rokushakubo" ... naming a staff that's just under 6 feet long.

The reason I called Maul's lightsabre a bo was, in part, to distinguish between a "bo" and a "jo" ... a "jo" staff is, you see, only 4 feet long. And it is also used quite differently, from what I've seen in Karate.

27/3/06 11:00

 
Blogger D-Rock said...

*nods* Here we go... the "jo" staff is used more like a long-sword ... here's two examples.. :)
http://www.bujindesign.com/images/videos/buki/buki3.mpg
http://www.bujindesign.com/images/videos/buki/buki1.mpg

27/3/06 11:05

 

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