Dual wield
Dual wielding is the technique of using two
In terms of
History
Dual wielding has not been used or mentioned much in military history, though it appears in weapon-based martial arts and fencing practices.[2]
Dimachaerus were a type of Roman gladiator that fought with two swords. The name is the Latin-language borrowing of the Greek word διμάχαιρος meaning "bearing two knives" (di- dual + machairi knife)[3] Thus, an inscription from Lyon, France, mentions such a type of gladiator, here spelled dymacherus.[4] The dimachaeri were equipped for close-combat fighting.[5] A dimachaerus used a pair of siccae (curved scimitar) or gladius and used a fighting style adapted to both attack and defend with his weapons rather than a shield, as he was not equipped with one.[5][6]
The use of weapon combinations in each hand has been mentioned for close combat in western Europe during the
North American Indian tribes of the Atlantic northeast used a form involving a tomahawk in the primary hand and a knife in the secondary. It is practiced today as part of the modern Cree martial art Okichitaw.
All the above-mentioned examples, involve either one long and one short weapon, or two short weapons. An example of a dual wield of two sabres is the Ukrainian cossack dance hopak.
Asia
During the campaign
Traditional schools of Japanese martial arts include dual wield techniques, particularly a style conceived by Miyamoto Musashi involving the katana and wakizashi, two-sword kenjutsu techniques he called Niten Ichi-ryū.
Chinese martial arts involve the use of a pair of butterfly swords and hook swords.
Famed for his enormous strength,
.Chen An, a warlord who lived during the Jin dynasty (266–420) and Sixteen Kingdoms period, wielded a sword and a serpent spear in each hand, supposedly measuring at 7 chi and 1 zhang 8 chi respectively.
During
The Thailand weapon-based martial art
Kalaripayattu teaches advanced students to use either two sticks (of various sizes) or two daggers or two swords, simultaneously.
Modern
The use of a gun in each hand is often associated with the
However, there were several examples of gunmen in the West who actually used two pistols at the same time in their gunfights:
- John Wesley Hardin killed a gunman named Benjamin Bradley who shot at him, by drawing both of his pistols and firing back.[12]
- The Mexican vaquero Augustine Chacon had several gunfights in which he was outnumbered by more than one gunman and prevailed by equipping himself with a revolver in each hand.[13]
- King Fisher once managed to kill three bandits in a shootout by pulling both of his pistols.[14]
- During the infamous Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight, lawman Dallas Stoudenmire pulled both of his pistols as he ran out onto the street and killed one bystander and two other gunmen.[15]
- California Gold Rush, was ambushed by thirteen outlaws while together with two of his comrades. One of his friends was killed and the other was mortally wounded during the ambush. Davis drew both of his revolvers and fired, killing seven of the bandits, and killing four more with his bowie knife, causing the final two to flee.[16]
Dual wielding two handguns has been popularized by film and television.[17]
Effectiveness
MythBusters compared many firing stances, including having a gun in each hand, and found that, compared to the two-handed single-gun stance as a benchmark, only the one-handed shoulder-level stance with a single gun was comparable in terms of accuracy and speed. The ability to look down the sights of the gun was given as the main reason for this.[18] In an episode the following year, they compared holding two guns and firing simultaneously—rather than alternating left and right shots—with holding one gun in the two-handed stance, and found that the results were in favor of using two guns and firing simultaneously.[19]
In media
- The the Shredderdual wields with many weapons.
- Princess Mononoke features Lady Eboshi dual wielding with a katana sword and a hairpin.
- The Nightcrawler with two sabres, Elektra with two sais, and Black Widow with two pistols and two batons.
- The DC Comics features Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon dual wielding two bastons.
- The Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, and General Grievous. Star Wars: The Clone Wars features Palpatine and his former apprentice, Darth Maul, dual wielding two lightsabres each.
- The Halo franchise allows you to have two select weapons in Halo 2 and Halo 3.
- general Oreius dual wielding two longswords, and also the oppressive White Witch doing the same. It also features the Minotaur general Otmin dual wielding a falchion sword and a battle axe.
- Ip Man 3 features butterfly swords being dual wielded by Ip Man and Cheung Tin-chi.
- staffand a mystic longsword.
- Egyptologist Evelyn O'Connell and the treacherous Anck-su-namundual wielding two sais.
- The Pirates of the Caribbean features characters dual wielding two swords including Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann.
- The dao sword which split to two, and then with two hook swords.
- The Three Musketeers features many characters dual fighting with rapiers and daggers.
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers features Tommy Oliver dual wielding a sword and a dagger.
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- The Optimus Primalwith two swords.
- Kung Fu Hustle features iron rings being dual wielded by the humble tailor of Pigsty Alley.
- Power Rangers: Jungle Fury features dual wielding being done by Casey Rhodes with two nunchakus and also two dao-themed Shark Sabres, Theo Martin with two tonfas and then two tessan-themed Jungle Fans, and Camillewith two sais.
- In the Shang Chi, his son.
- The musical version of The Lion King features Mufasa and his son Simba dual wielding two akrafena swords to fight.
- Lara Croft, the heroine of the Tomb Raider franchise dual wields two pistols.
See also
References
- ^ "Why Dual Wielding Doesn't Work in Real Life". YouTube.
- ISBN 9780486138756.
- ISBN 978-0-520-22798-9
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- ISBN 978-0-8061-1051-6. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
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- ^ Texas Gunslinger, Outlaw and Lawman.
- ^ Metz, Leon Claire. 1979. Dallas Stoudenmire: El Paso Marshal. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. 162 p.
- ^ The Spell of the West: Captain Jonathan R. Davis. Retrieved: 2012-10-31.
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- ^ Savage, Adam; Hyneman, Jamie (November 23, 2011). "Wheel of Mythfortune". MythBusters. Season 2011. Episode 177. Discovery Channel.
- ^ "Hollywood gunslingers". Mythbusters - Discovery. Retrieved 13 June 2013.