Most clubbing weapons are easily constructed. A club with a stone may have been one of the first or just a stick with a thickened end (much like a baseball bat). A simple cane, bamboo, walking stick, or even cooking pan can all be added to this category. From the list above we can see some more.

Clubbing weapons were often used against armored units. Where a sword and staff did not have enough effect (Mediaeval European Swords used against Armored Knights were more a clubbing than a cutting or stabbing weapon) a good club would dent even the best metal, create body impact through leather and hardened leather and split & damage lacquered wooden and bamboo amour; often where most other ways of defence (and attack) would not work clubbing weapons were very effective.

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5. Kwan Dao - Leung Ting
6. Chinese Single Broadsword - Zhikui, Weigi, Moffett, Zhikun, Feng
7. Spear Play - David Huey
8. Fatal Flute & Stick Forms - Li Grand Master Chan Poi
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12. www.geocities.com/wushu_taichi/ Weapons.html
13. www.kungfu.uklinux.net/weapons/

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Sijo Robert Z