Suruchin
Suruchin, or shurujin, is a very old weapon whose origins go back to the Stone Age. It exists under various names and various forms of share the world. It would have been used to make flee the lions and the tigers. In the beginning it is a stone attached to a cord made of vegetable fiber from 90 to 240 cm length. Shortest are used to strike an enemy directly and longest to make them fall.
This weapon is in particular one of the weapons of the KobudÅ developed on the island of Okinawa. It is then a cord from 2 to 3 meters length, with a ballast fixed on each end. This ballast was in the beginning a stone but it can be made up of a wood ball or a metal point. Suruchin is the twelfth arms in the progression with Kobudo d' Okinawa traditional, it is a complex weapon and she is studied only starting from the 5th daN.
More recently, in particular at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, Surujin is a chain with a weight and a metal point. The weight is used to be launched on the adversary or on its armed wing and the chain is then drawn to unbalance it or intertwine it, by using techniques close to those of the Hojojutsu. The point is then used to manage a fatal blow.
Suruchin is a weapon rather similar to the Manriki, arms traditional Japanese woman and typical with the Ninjutsu.
A long alternative of Suruchin, the Kusari, is made of a long chain being able to reach 4 m length. Surrounded around the arm, it constitutes an effective weapon against the sharp weapons. Used like a lasso, by making it whirl around oneself, it makes it possible to catch the enemy, to unbalance it, to disarm it or strangle it.
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