Raphael the Gardener?
 

Well, My friend is in Jujitsu, and she's been training with a lot of weapons, such as the Bo staff, Numchucks and soon she'll be training for Kantanas... Anyway, her sensei specialises in these kinds of weapons, and he told her that the origins of Sais, are actually, some kind of traditional gardening tool. He even showed her how they handled them, and she showed me, and the crazy thing is, it makes sence!

Correct me if I'm wrong, since I don't know all the details, and don't mind my spelling ((dear lord, don't mind my spelling))... but can anyone verify this for me? o.o ...

Now that is intreasting facts.

It's true, the sai deffinetly originated as a gardening tool, just like the scythe/sicle(sp?)

Hmm... That is interesting... Thanks for the info! :)

They were used for planting seeds I think, kinda like a gardening fork I guess

Hehe I wonder what Raphs true reasons were for using them, gardining eh? Aww Raph has a soft side ^_^

Maybe because Splinter made him train with Sais ;)

Who knows, he may have a little garden somewhere, where he feeds the birds and the squirrels....

yeah i read about them being a gardening tool, the three point are used to create seed holes, and once the crop is grown they used to chop them with the sai.

the peasants then went on to use them as weapons to protect their land because they couldn't afford a real weapon

such fascinating facts

well i thought so :lol:

Nunchaku also originated in China as a gardening tool. Actually, a harvesting tool, if I remember correctly. Over the centuries they were retooled (forgive the pun) to what we know them as.

I think that is only a theory. I have heard about it on the Discovery channel as well.

check these pages out:

http://uechi-ryu.com/oldsite/sai_article.htm

http://www.seishinkan.com/seishin/ss...em/anatwep.htm

Well he already got green fingers so he should be an natural on the subject (a swedish expression for a person who is good at all this taking-care-of-plants business, dunno if you guys got something like it) :lol:

Yeah green thumb. :tthumbsu: Pretty much the same thing.:)

In the old show, probably just for cutting pizza or opening cans :roll:

but, he'd never admit to it... heck, he'd probly stab the flowers to death if we're looking >.>
:lol:

Sai were originally used to plant rice and they looked alot different from what we know today. There was a planting sai on Ebay once. It looked weird.

i think chucks were used to beat grain..not sure