Tangled weapons

The 2 (few) minute approach!

I chose to explore using my hair with a lot of extension as a weapon. The closest traditional Chinese weapon categories are the flexible soft weapons, examples are the dart rope, the chain whip as well as the flying claws.

-powerful hidden weapons
- all these types weapons have a weight(dart) attached at the end
-require excellent hand-eye coordination (definitely not my strength! first thought after reading this was that this is the wrong weapon for me! and it resulted ultimately in the conclusion that I must choose this weapon for this year.
-length varies, with chain whip being the shortest of these weapons
-spinning, shooting, retrieval
-whip, hook, and bind an opponent
-slashing & piercing with dart end
-deflecting blows from other weapons
-all body parts are used in manipulating the rope's momentum
-using angular momentum of a weight to wind around a body part 
-use the unwinding/unwrapping to change direction as well as gaining new momentum












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