Teaching Nunchaku to my friend

[chrisw08]

Worked with my friend one day and these are the results.

#1 Stepping 1-2-3 Drill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BD_pARL1g

#2 Spinning moves

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_LvYJVnsI

[Zaine]

Pretty good control drills.

[Harkon72]

Please watch this, it's the way the Masters do it; http://youtu.be/APTur6EEqaY

[chrisw08]

thanks, yah I wanted to start to teach people diffrent skills that I know and that was only like a 20 minute day. Wish to teach katas and tech so I can get practice to one day become an instructor.

[sensei8]

Imho, only a qualified instructor, that's well versed in said weapon, should teach any MA weapon; just too many things can, and will, go wrong when an unskilled practitioner teaches said weapon.

[Montana]

Please watch this, it's the way the Masters do it; http://youtu.be/APTur6EEqaY

I was gone for about a year and a couple of months ago came back on here.

Anyway, I was looking back at some of the old threads and this one caught my eye.

In the origional post, chrisw08 posted himeself, or his friend (not sure which) doing some basic nunchauku techniques, which, IMHO, had pretty poor technique. Then Harkon72 posted a link with a master doing GREAT techniques, which made me VERY happy to see that there are some people out there that know the difference.

This is a very good example of people that don't know good technique from bad, teaching others bad technique..and so on, and so on, and so on.... As a tournament judge for about 25 years at open (all style) tournaments, and normally the center weapons judge, I've seen MANY, MANY, MANY horrible black belts doing God awful techniques, ESPECIALLY with the nunchauku.

Please people, learn good technique. The power you generate from good technuique, versus bad technique, is ASTRONOMICAL!

*climbing off my soapbox now*

[sensei8]

Muscle memory needs to be guarded at all times. Otherwise, the bad muscle memory is difficult to retrain, and even then, some of the bad trickles in from time to time.

chrisw08, does your instructor know that you're teaching/showing nunchaku?

If any of my students were teaching/showing nunchaku and that student wasn't qualified to do so, especially if that student is still learning the nunchaku, I'd be having a very direct conversation with that student. We don't start teaching Kobudo until Green belt, and that's with the Bo...nunchaku is much, much later.

[Bulltahr]

chrisw08, does your instructor know that you're teaching/showing nunchaku?

The above Chris, so very important on so many levels......

[Oshishinobu]

Awesome brother. The nunchaku are just too fun OSU!!