No weapons...

[Sage Ninja]

For as long as I have watched the TMNT I have always enjoyed the way they fought and handled themselves in battle. From the Classic toon to the New one I've always liked seeing them spar with each other, it was always visually entertaining.

However one thing that always bugged me was the fact that the turtles never fought with out there weapons in hand to hand combat. It always made me wonder if they knew how too. You very rarely see them fight (even while sparring) with out there weapons and that has always annoyed me just a little.

I mean I understand that while in battle they need their weapons, but I have always wanted to see one time where they didn't fight with their weapons and just fought free hand. I know this rarely happened in the classic cartoon except for a few instances where they are sparring but other than that I can't think of a time when they would fight with out them, same goes for the new toon.

When ever the turtles where put into a situation where they wouldn't have their weapons I would get all excited because I thought I would be treated to some hand to hand fighting, but the turtles would almost always try to find substitutes for their weapons and wouldn't even try to fight with out them, and that always saddened me

Am I the one who has felt this way?