When I grabbed the mail today there was a catalogue for my teenaged son that grabbed my attention. It was a martial arts catalogue. Now that in and of itself is not a rarity. He has been taking Karate for years. In fact the Dojo is one of his favorite places. So he has all of the sparring gear like pads and wooden or bamboo martial arts weapons.

This catalogue had all kinds of cool martial weapons. They did have all of the typical stuff. They had nunchucks. They had bokens. They had sais. Of course my son already has these things though. This catalogue had some other cool stuff that I would not have thought of though.

These guys sell nine or ten varieties of throwing stars. For some reason I could just picture my little guy decimating the drywall in his room with these things! After all, that’s what I would have done with those things at his age. Then they had probably fifteen different varieties of throwing knives. Again visions of drywall resembling Swiss cheese came to mind. So when he got home from school I had a short chat with him. I told him I saw the catalogue and thought there were some really cool things in it. But I also told him that he couldn’t have any of the projectile type weapons in our house.

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