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>>343105 Correct. Tonfa usually are not bladed; blades fixed to the weapon defeat the flexibility of their use.
>>343098 The reason they are used as police batons because they can be held in a variety of grips for different purposes, as this namefag indicated. Holding the long end, for example, allows one to use the T-grip like a fork to catch an attacker's weapon, limb or neck. Or allows one to simply hammer the T-grip into a person's face, striking earlier than one would with the baton grip.
>>343100 They say that about Darth Maul's double-bladed saber too. Theoretically, tonfa lightsabers could be very effective, because lightsabers cut through just about anything with relative ease. All one has to do is keep spinning the handles to make huge uninterrupted cutting arcs around one's body.
>>343102 It seems ridiculous to exclude the use of more complicated weapons on the basis of extra training. Even amongst normal sabers alone, Dooku uses a cross between a French grip and a pistol grip (Gardere grip?): a pistol grip gives the advantage of stronger blade movements. It is not unlikely that individuals might seek out specific advantages of certain weapon designs.
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