I need help with weapons!

[Tobias_Reece]

Ive beaten her to it.......SaiFightsMS is a woman, not a man.

 

You're not the first person on this site to make that mistake.

 

Hope this clears things up

 

Tobias

 

 

[Knuth]

Try http://www.awma.com for supplies and videos. Pretty generick stuff but they should work for a beginer. Good luck.

 

 

[SaiFightsMS]

In the Okinawan tradition the nunchaku is used as an extension of the arm as are all weapons. Take for example moves that start in a front catch (one "stick" is held parallel to the ground next to the ear - the other hangs down behind the head and is grasped by the other hand under the elbow). The 2 most basic moves that start from that are over head strikes. The bottom hand releases and the hand beside the ear swings the nunchaku over the top and down on your opponents head or shoulder.

 

An other basic move starts with the top hand releasing. The bottom hand then swings the nunchaku upward and into your opponents chin ( or family jewels if it is a low swing).

 

We do some moves where the nunchaku is held on end in each and stretched out with the end executing a jab like you would do with a bo or a staff.

 

I think a lot of the difference in the amount of information available on weapons training has to do with possible misuse and violation of local laws. There is an inherant danger in all martial arts training; more so with weapons. (first time you clunk yourself in the head you will understand)

 

Working with an instuctor also helps insure that your technique is correct.

 

 

[ckdstudent]

You can legally sell a book on cracking a computer, using a gun, building a bomb, using a sword, anything. Libraries avoid them for a simpler reason, people only rarely check them out.

 

 

[SaiFightsMS]

Tobias we do strikes with the ends of the nunchaku. They should be made of hard enough wood to take a strike otherwise they would be fairly useless as a weapon. We also do at least one block with both ends held in one hand striking with the wood rather than the fist.

 

Actually I think that I am the only one in the dojo to actually ever break a pair of wooden nunchaku. And it was not a strike that broke them. During a battle with a pinched nerve I dropped them and ran over them (trying to position to pick them up) with my power chair. And it was the end the string inserts into that broke.

 

 

[Tobias_Reece]

Sai

 

I too stike with the ends of the nunchaku, but I was asking if you strike with the handle of the tsun kuwa.

 

Apologies if I didn't make this clear

 

 

[SaiFightsMS]

We do a down block with both ends of the nunchaku held in the same hand so that it is the wood not the fist or forearm that does the block. That frees up to other hand for a grap or other use.

 

We also do a lunging jab holding the hands sort of stacked on top of each other with the cords facing the opponent cords slack. The thrust is aimed for the solar plexus.

 

 

[RedLynx]

Hmmm, I'm sorry to make the mistake of calling SaiFightsMS a man... I do hope you are not offened. I am also sorry to be the first guy to do that! But like I said man or woman, she's good about helping you out.

 

 

[SaiFightsMS]

No big deal. I have one of those names in real life that can go either way. I have gotten mail addressed both to Patricia and Patrick for many years now. You kind of get used to it.

 

 

[RedLynx]

You certainly do, Sai. But I myself haven't gotten names mixed up, I'm Justin. It is ridicule for walking "funny" the way I do, with leg palsy and all.