Saying “ain’t” isn’t getting you into Harvard either. Should we send this out to all of our friends insisting that they, in turn, send it out to all of THEIR friends? We could make this a “chain comic”…(buh-dump, chzzz!)
Man, I can tell bug hasn’t been in a lot of street fights.
It takes waaaaay, more skill to fight with a chain than a knife. Chains look like simple clubs but that’s only true if: 1) your target is not actively evading, 2) is not actively attacking you.
1) It’s very hard to hit a moving person with a chain because unlike a rigid club, the far end doesn’t move in sync with the part in your hand. Instead it follows in a delayed arc. Basically, once you start swinging, it it’s trajectory is committed.
2) Fighting is half offense, half defense, and a chain makes a poor defensive weapon. You can defend yourself with a knife, at least against an untrained opponent, just by waving it in front of the them. You have to be able to do a little ballet with a chain to keep some one aware. The long commit time from (1) means that your often open to attack most of the time.
Bike chains overcome some of this by being rigid in one plane. With a LOT of practice, you can learn to twist the chain in flight. You start the swing with the chain flat on so that it’s rigid and moving like a club. Right before you strike, you rotate the chain to it’s flexible plane and moves like a chain. If you entangle someone with a bike chain, twisting it back to the rigid plane will lock it in place.
Despite what you see in movies, the primary use of chains in street fighting is as a gauche, i.e. a secondary weapon in the left hand, with the primary weapon, e.g. knife, crowbar, stick, in the right. Attacking the opponents right with the chain can entangle their primary weapon hand and then you move in with the primary to do the real damage.
Chains are largely used because they can be carried as legitimate tools with drawing legal scrutiny, not because most people have the skill to use them. You can defeat an unskilled chain wielder (using it as their sole weapon) simple by stepping aggressively, inside the arc of the chain where they are defenseless. Even if the chain hits you, it will be the short end near the hand and not the dangerous high velocity tip.
Don’t ask me where I learned all this but I can tell you it wasn’t Harvard or any other college.
What, no Chain of Fools pun?
I recall an older comic wherein Chain Guy was the one being laughed at. Both are still comically awesome as always.
that another reson for that they laughed
I’ve seen bike chains used instead of regular chains.
How about chain and sickle? That must take some skill to do right.
that only really happens when supernatural ogres are involved.
In all fairness, it’s quite hard to distinguish which gangster is more skilled, when you’re being both stabbed and chain-whipped to death.
Soon there will be PhD for Gangsterology
Saying “ain’t” isn’t getting you into Harvard either. Should we send this out to all of our friends insisting that they, in turn, send it out to all of THEIR friends? We could make this a “chain comic”…(buh-dump, chzzz!)
The bazooka guy finds them both adorable.
Man, I can tell bug hasn’t been in a lot of street fights.
It takes waaaaay, more skill to fight with a chain than a knife. Chains look like simple clubs but that’s only true if: 1) your target is not actively evading, 2) is not actively attacking you.
1) It’s very hard to hit a moving person with a chain because unlike a rigid club, the far end doesn’t move in sync with the part in your hand. Instead it follows in a delayed arc. Basically, once you start swinging, it it’s trajectory is committed.
2) Fighting is half offense, half defense, and a chain makes a poor defensive weapon. You can defend yourself with a knife, at least against an untrained opponent, just by waving it in front of the them. You have to be able to do a little ballet with a chain to keep some one aware. The long commit time from (1) means that your often open to attack most of the time.
Bike chains overcome some of this by being rigid in one plane. With a LOT of practice, you can learn to twist the chain in flight. You start the swing with the chain flat on so that it’s rigid and moving like a club. Right before you strike, you rotate the chain to it’s flexible plane and moves like a chain. If you entangle someone with a bike chain, twisting it back to the rigid plane will lock it in place.
Despite what you see in movies, the primary use of chains in street fighting is as a gauche, i.e. a secondary weapon in the left hand, with the primary weapon, e.g. knife, crowbar, stick, in the right. Attacking the opponents right with the chain can entangle their primary weapon hand and then you move in with the primary to do the real damage.
Chains are largely used because they can be carried as legitimate tools with drawing legal scrutiny, not because most people have the skill to use them. You can defeat an unskilled chain wielder (using it as their sole weapon) simple by stepping aggressively, inside the arc of the chain where they are defenseless. Even if the chain hits you, it will be the short end near the hand and not the dangerous high velocity tip.
Don’t ask me where I learned all this but I can tell you it wasn’t Harvard or any other college.
“Man, I can tell bug hasn’t been in a lot of street fights.”
webcartoonists usually don’t get it street fights
I love this comment. Don’t ask me why, I’ve never been a fight before, I just love this glorious wall of text.
How come I can see this conversation happening between Scout and Spy from Team Fortress 2?