This video is from over ten years ago and features a kusarigama demonstration by Maako Sensei. Among Japanese arms, the kusarigama is unusual; yet the weight is a solid lump of iron and therefore extremely dangerous, so it is by no means something you can neutralize just by rushing in. Of course, a headlong charge that relies on luck is one possible tactic, but staking your one and only life on that is reckless. Even at close range, there is still the sickle and the chain to contend with (and th