#tiger claws

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Sorry if you've answered this before (it's hard finding older posts on your blog!) But I'd love to know if clawed gauntlets/ claw attachments on hands were a realistic & not horribly flawed weapon! There was a recent film (woman king) about the Amazons of Dahomey where the women would file their fingernails into what we're effectively claws, but all I could think was "man that would really hurt your fingers if you tried to rip someone's throat open"

I'm wondering if removable, strong metal claws would be worth it, or would they just be made redundant by whatever other weapon the warrior would have on hand?

You're probably thinking of the Bagh Nakh. These are are sometimes called, “tiger claws,” though they usually don't mount onto the finger tips. Instead the blades are either mounted to the back of the hand, or between the fingers.

It's a real weapon, though, they are a bit niche. Basically, this is a relative of the punch dagger, and while they can make for pretty decent concealed weapons, they're not something you'd really want to take onto the battlefield.

I wouldn't want to mount blades onto my fingernails for a number of reasons. First, it would be far too easy to accidentally snag and break a finger mid-combat. Note: I did not say, “break a nail,” I mean straight up snap a finger.

There are Bagh Nakh versions which mount directly onto the finger tip. In these cases, they're part of an articulated gauntlet. However, these specific fingertip variants are a bit dubious. The Bagh Nakh is already an unusual weapon, but it's unclear if the fingertip gauntlets were ever used, or even intended for use. It's quite possible that these were always intended as a kind of souvenir or decorative piece. (All of the examples with the blades mounted directly onto the fingers, that I'm aware of, are relatively modern, fragile, and ornate.)

As for using your actual fingernails as weapons? That's not going to work especially well. For one thing, you may have noticed, but your fingernails are non-retractable. If you sharpen your fingernails you need to live with that choice. Which could make scratching hard to reach itches, bathing, or even relieving yourself a slightly more complicated, and dangerous prospect.

Additionally, you may have noticed that poking a fingernail through armor is going to be slightly tricky, and if your nails were somehow sharpened to the point where piercing armor was an option, that would add, “getting dressed,” to the list of activities that were suddenly far more dangerous than they used to be.

Can you pierce skin with a sharpened nail? Yes. It doesn't even need to be that sharp, and it's not going to be that unpleasant (unless you're accidentally stabbing yourself.) Getting the necessary penetration to get into an artery? I'm less convinced that's possible, but I wouldn't write it off completely. Being able to do any of that in combat? No, that's just fetishizing women on the battlefield.

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“A bagh nakh (tiger claw weapon) with curved blade. India, 19th century”

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Tiger Claws (Kelly Makin, 1991)

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Movie Review | Tiger Claws (Makin, 1991)

I’d caught a few minutes of this years ago, back when it was seemingly on Canadian cable constantly, and this is the only thing I remembered. The hero, a cop who is searching for a serial killer who kills his victims with the mysterious and deadly style known as Tiger, waltzes into a martial arts tournament and asks the first person he knows if the fight they’re watching is in Tiger style, which the other person immediately tries to shush him for. Having seen the film proper now, I must regretfully report that the scene is less funny than I remembered. One, it isn’t the first guy the hero talks to (he greets a friend who is preparing for a match). Two, Tiger isn’t quite as rare as I’d assumed, as the hero professes some experience in the style. Sadly, reality did not live up to my memories.

The hero is played by Jalal Merhi, who I understand was a jeweler who went into the movie business and became a bit of a mogul in the Canadian low budget action scene. He has a presence that can be best described as Canadian Seagal, in that he has a ponytail but is otherwise substantially more milquetoast, lacking the streetwise swagger of Seagal at his onscreen best and the pungency of Seagal at his offscreen worst. His accent also sounds a lot like Jean-Claude Van Damme’s, so you get a multitude of action hero flavours. All I can say is that his is the only character I’ve ever seen in a movie who has the same first name as me and has it pronounced (by others at least) the same way as me. And in the very last scene, he wears a Hawaiian shirt, so I’m counting this as onscreen representation. (For the record, I neither have a ponytail nor do I know any martial arts.)

As an action star, he gets an A for effort. But he’s joined by Cynthia Rothrock, who is very good at kicking people, and Bolo Yeung, who is in glowering, hulking mode a la Bloodsport, so it evens out. Having watched three Yuen Woo-Ping movies and a much better Rothrock vehicle within the last few days, it would be hard for me to call this a great action movie, but the fights are directed with a bit more style than I expected, savouring the North American martial arts movie vibe you would expect from this kind of thing. There’s also a couple of other cops who try to arrest the hero the moment they get reassigned the case, and a self-promoting martial artist named Bill Pickells played by somebody named Bill Pickels, who wears a Thriller-style jacket in his cheesy ad, and expresses some insecurity about tall houseplants. (One wonders if he had the extra “l” added to his name to distance himself from the obnoxious character he plays.) This is also very obviously shot in Toronto, meaning you get to hang out at Spadina and Dundas in Toronto’s Chinatown. And there’s a dojo with cute tigers on the wall that were supposed to have been painted by Yeung’s character. See, plenty to enjoy here.

Thanks to @thedrillerkiller​ for the recommendation!

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