Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20190627122349/@comment-35455126-20190821033511

Rebinreburst wrote: At that point, why use a tonfa?

Say you inverted this Tonfa, so the long end points outwards. You have a longer blade, more heft, but the moment you impact your opponent, the blade stops and the handle keeps going. Being perpendicular to the blade, it's harder to keep hold of the handle.

Not to mention, in all applications listed here, you're limited to backhanded uses of the weapon, and you lose the ability to switch the 'front' end of the Tonfa easily, because air resistance. Say you turned the blade 90 degrees, you gain the ability to 'swing' the blade, and can block, but you lose every other way of attacking.

As portrayed in Hellboy, one of the sword edges would rest along your forearm, turning the typical forearm block that makes a tonfa useful into a vein-splitting suicide maneuver.

The other problem is that if one executed the normal whipping tonfa strike with the bladed tonfa seen in hellboy, the flat of the blade would be what strikes the target.

At that point, it would be a worse sword. Just use a jitte.

Well she always uses the tonfa like a sword, with the sharp part of the blade facing vertically, so that really doesn’t seem like an issue.

She always holds it with the long part facing outward, so that’s also not an issue. Plus, her aura can just protect her from being scraped anyway. And don’t even think about bringing “wEll iT wOUld bE hEAvy tHEn”. Go look as Crescent Rose and Gianduja if that’s what you think.

See the first thing.

Maybe you’re putting too much thought in this.