Are you proficient with any type of weaponry?

Anything goes, as long as it’s an actual weapon. Swords, staves, ninchaku, firearms. Anything that is considered a weapon, and that weapon requires you to have to train to be able to use it. So metal pipes and broken beer bottles do not count, unless you can truly say that you have mastered your own art in wielding them.

As well, buying weapon replicas from movies and having them sit over your fireplace does not make you a wielder of that weapon. I am interested in answers from people who truly know how to use a weapon, or are training with one.

Please exclude hand to hand combat, unless said martial art includes weaponry, such as Karate might. (although things like brass knuckles do count)

What is the weapon? What is your experience with said weapon? What have you learned? How did it test your limits? Why did you chose that? What is the story behind you being able to use said weapon? Where did you learn to wield it?

Thanks yo.