What does it mean that 36 kung fu skills are not as good as 36 weapons?

Thirty-six martial arts is a traditional belonging to the Chinese martial arts, referring to the use of a variety of martial arts equipment kung fu and skills, martial arts content and description is very rich.

Weapons, refers to the military struggle contains a variety of lethal, destructive force of the instrument device. The language is from "Zhou Li - Earth Officials - Xiao Situ": "and Dabi six townships and four suburbs of the officials, leveling the education and governance, the right political affairs, the examination of the Fu House, and their number of people, six animals, weapons, in order to wait for the political order." .