Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps.
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Sometimes legs are broken.
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It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become.
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Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull.
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One entangles the victim with the bola, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat.
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I had never encountered such a weapon and I had little notion as to how it might be met.
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The Tuchuk handled it well.
Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps.
Sometimes legs are broken.
It is often difficult to release the straps, so snarled do they become.
Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull.
One entangles the victim with the bola, leaps from one's mount and with the quiva cuts his throat.
I had never encountered such a weapon and I had little notion as to how it might be met.
The Tuchuk handled it well.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )