Nunchaku video

[KstormTKD]

Hey check out my nunchuk vid;)

[sensei8]

What was the subject?

What's your level of experience with the nunchaku?

BTW, Welcome to KF!

[Martialart]

I can't help it. I just went and ordered a couple of pairs of nunchucks and a padded pair. I have a sword, and my wife and I practice with bokkens, but, from the very beginning for me, martial arts has always been paired with nunchucks, and any time I've ever trained, I've always trained both together.

Watching this video brought it all back.

[bushido_man96]

The main issue I have with chucks is that everyone whirls them about, but you never see anyone HITTING anything with them. Hitting something is going to effect the way that end comes back, and how you catch, reset, etc.

You don't by chance do ATA TKD and use their chuck method, do you?

[pinoy_1]

Hi.. Is there any nunchuck tutorial site that i can visit?? I want to learn, i think its an added skill that can be learned by a begginer like me..

[Jay]

The main issue I have with chucks is that everyone whirls them about, but you never see anyone HITTING anything with them. Hitting something is going to effect the way that end comes back, and how you catch, reset, etc.

You don't by chance do ATA TKD and use their chuck method, do you?

I have to say you make a very good point. I never use them as a weapon only to show off. To me that is the extent of what they are good for. As an actual weapon, well I would prefer a gun.

[isshinryu5toforever]

Hi.. Is there any nunchuck tutorial site that i can visit?? I want to learn, i think its an added skill that can be learned by a begginer like me..

It won't help you to learn anything via a website. If you're a beginner, then either join a kobudo school in addition to the dojo you're at now, or wait until kobudo is introduced into your curriculum. Don't learn bad habits now via the internet that your instructor will have to work very hard to correct later.

As for chucks, yeah I think they're really just there to look cool. Some people can make them work, but it's because they've trained to make them work. I think that kind of learning curve is much greater with things like nunchucku than say a staff.

[TKDKeller]

The main issue I have with chucks is that everyone whirls them about, but you never see anyone HITTING anything with them. Hitting something is going to effect the way that end comes back, and how you catch, reset, etc.

You don't by chance do ATA TKD and use their chuck method, do you?

Not to knock ATA for I did it for a couple years but there weapon training is very....bad and not practical, they use plastic $10 chucks for competition and practice with a nylon rope, it is certainly for show and not for use as a real weapon by any means, and I agree that you should practice hitting the chucks against an object/tree/bag whatever however you can do that all day but its not like you can carry around chucks as a concealed weapon anyway, so training will just for your knowledge and not really for general use in the streets.

[pinoy_1]

I think i'll agree with you TKD. Its very visible.. and maybe you can go to jail carrying that kind of weapon.

[bushido_man96]

The main issue I have with chucks is that everyone whirls them about, but you never see anyone HITTING anything with them. Hitting something is going to effect the way that end comes back, and how you catch, reset, etc.

You don't by chance do ATA TKD and use their chuck method, do you?

Not to knock ATA for I did it for a couple years but there weapon training is very....bad and not practical, they use plastic $10 chucks for competition and practice with a nylon rope, it is certainly for show and not for use as a real weapon by any means, and I agree that you should practice hitting the chucks against an object/tree/bag whatever however you can do that all day but its not like you can carry around chucks as a concealed weapon anyway, so training will just for your knowledge and not really for general use in the streets.

I never said I liked their method, hehe. I just knew of it, and had done it some. But, I haven't seen many other methods that do anything practical with the chucks, either, other than slinging them around for an XMA type of form to look good.