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Were Nunchucks Ever Actually Used in Combat or are They Primarily a Hollywood Thing?
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Famously a weapon of choice for legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, at least in certain films, nunchaku, or nunchucks, are a popular facet of pop-culture and there are those who’d have you believe that this humble weapon used to widely shatter jawbones like Samson during a particularly bad hair day. But were nunchucks ever actually used in combat? After all, one is just about as likely to hurt themselves or allies around them than an enemy unless extremely well trained, and even then its a risk when not particularly careful.
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What about raid shadow legends?
Wrong question. They're a martial arts demonstration. They aren't even weapons.
That's why everyone laughed at Susan Sotomayor when she tried to justify banning them during her confirmation hearing or whatever that was. She didn't even know how to spell/pronounce it yet she thought she knew enough to support banning them and defend her attempt to ban them!
Can any of them use nunchucks?
It wasnt an improvised weapon used due to a lack of weapons... it was just an impressive display of physical ability to intimidate would-be criminals after the weapons to properly defend themselves were outlawed. It was never supposed to be a weapon.
Did people use the sectional staff?
Its basically a 3 part nunchuck but a bit longer
They probably saw the most use battling against siblings and friends.
@nuke mtv Nutcracku
@@DATA-qt3nb lol, Nunshartu
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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich using nunchucks in the offices. He legalized it last year.
@@naverilllang I'll give you a like, since you put time into your comment
nunchuks vs juggling. They look the same but which is more deadly?
Remember Indiana Jones and the machete twirling guy? Yeah, that.
“Hey Bruce you got an extra pair of those?”
“For you? I’ve none Chuck!”
OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!
😝
get out
Boom boom tish.
Hey Bruce! Can we just have a drink and forget the whole thing?
@@Wyzard01 i.imgur.com/zmGoxkP.gifv
Wait... Children raised in sewers to fight violent crimes and aliens as teenagers with body dysmorphia issues and nunchucks and the term 'ninja' were the worrying part?!
RUclips recommended this to me, probably due to Shad's crusade against this "weapon"
Same
Go tell San Diego police that their "weapon" is useless, boy.
@@vksasdgaming9472 San Diego inhabitants are easier to beat up / intimidate, clearly. Otherwise why don't all PD's use them?
@@christopherknorr2895 So why not use MIGHTY STICK then, junior?
@@vksasdgaming9472 I think it's cool to have a police that uses a weapon that cannot be used by civilians due to it's difficulty of maneuverability.
No one ever said they are useless thought. They just said that, compared to any other weapons, including the stick, it is worse.
I love how John Wick is just casually used as a reliable source. XD
I nearly fell over laughing. That was hillarious.
🤣🤣🤣🤣... right!
It was flawlessly executed
Because its John Fucking Wick lol
How many takes did it take for Simon to get that bit in with out laughing?
I practiced with the padded kind for several months. Besides being a good workout for the forearms I learned you can strike fairly accurately and powerfully. You can also get pretty decent with it and decrease self injuries with skill. Other stuff I learned:
-The weapon is only effective if it's already swinging or it's kept taut (held so the chains between the sticks have no slack). This is why you see Bruce Lee and others hold them in that stylistic way, it's actually necessary. When held taut you can quickly and accurately swing to strike. If the chains are slacked, your swing will go wild and be as likely to hit yourself. The other option is to continuously swing, in this way you can position it so when you swing to strike it is even faster and harder and still as accurate as from still, but this can be tiring and leaves it open to attack which comes to its major weakness.
-the nunchuk basically has one good swing in it. Because as soon as you strike someone with it, it recoils and loses all angle and momentum.
You can try pulling it back quickly (so someone doesn't just grab it) but this can result in hitting yourself, especially your hand.
After striking someone it has to be caught again or you need to get a new spin on it.
This leads to its major drawback. If someone blocks a strike or hits it while it's spinning it instantly becomes useless. This leaves a person open to a counter attack. You would then be caught either having to immediately abandon the nunchuk or waste time trying to get it back into a striking position as someone is coming at you with whatever they have.
Altogether I think its only practicality is that first strike. If held right (it can be done one-handed) you can get a single very powerful head or body strike in and have that be enough or ditch it for other options (or be ready to ditch it, who knows if you surprise someone with a blow they might not react fast enough and you can get into position again). A single head blow with metal nunchuks could very easily be fatal.
If you watch Bruce Lee every opponent is taken out with a single blow, giving him time to recover. In real life your first swing might not take someone out. Though I theorize with enough practice one might get good at glancing blows that don't fully disrupt a swing so a strike can be made while keeping it in motion and control.
Or for ping pong, of course.
probably you just surprise someone who has a sword, who doesn't expect your farming tool to be used as a weapon, and then after the first strike you just take their sword and keep going. in japan, it was illegal for anyone other than samurai to own swords, so you'd have to quickly ditch the sword again afterwards and run far asf until no one could connect you with the illegal sword use lol
Good explanation. It's true once you hit with that first strike, there's that recoil moment. I dont know if you use this, but the century Bob torso dummy is really good practice to test the nunchucks on. Great visual on seeing striking areas and how to handle the recoil; heck add foot movement and there may be a bit more realism.
Thats a good run down, I think its most practical use was intimidation so the fight wouldnt happen in the first place.
It's about speed and continuous motion...once the strike is in motion, you can perhaps divert it (which is going to require some quick hand movements to slow it down without killing yourself), or you just have to whip it through without stopping; if you try and half-ass it, you could injure yourself on the snap back. Of course, I was trained to also snap the end of the nunchuk, the off-hand handle, into a pointed strike, so that all the force goes into just that small end; lots of fun learning how NOT to do THAT one incorrectly.
Student Shaolin monk: Master! I was threshing rice in the paddy when I had a great idea. Look how this flail could make a great weapon for battle!
Master monk: You'll put your eye out, kid
Grasshopper
*and your elbows, and your knees, and your nose, and the back of your head, and your peepee... especially the peepee
I had thought it was more coordination training than an actual weapon.
Exercice and general fitness, i can believe that
smack!
I love how Simon describes having friends is just conditional.
It is 😂
@@bayraktarx1386 yep
It is. Personally I rely on myself so haven't had friends in years. Even when they don't back stab you they tend to need you more than you need them so are more liability than asset.
@Willie A what's a party?
When I was in high school a friend bought himself a practice set and a real set that he hung on his wall. He practiced for a few months and invited me and another friend over to watch his mastery of this weapon. He decided to use the real nunchucks. Thirty seconds in, he hit himself in the back of the head and knocked himself out. I laughed so hard that I almost passed out and the other guy laughed so hard that he puked.
edit: don't know why I didn't add this before because it was the funniest part .
It wasn't the fact that he knocked himself out that was so funny but the blank look on his face and the way he went over like a felled tree.
I still get the chuckles to this day whenever I think about it.
I'm guessing he practiced with the plastic foam covered variety, and basically never touched the actual weapon. Something that will come back to bite you (literally in this case, lol) with practice weapons is the different weight. This is particularly true with flexible weapons (Nunchucks, 3-section staff, monkey's fist/meteor hammer/poi, ect), a lot of it comes down to that inertia. I've seen quite a few folks nail themselves in the nuts trying to park the free end under their arm.
Timothy Neiswander 😂
i have smacked myself less than a half-dozen times and more than three. I don't remember losing consciousness but I know what the optical center of my brain is shaped like. I saw it flash like lightening.
I made a pair using a cut shovel handle and a cheapie chain w/ some puny eye hooks as a kid in the late 80s. As you might expect, the chain and hooks didn't do a great job of holding the weighty handle pieces haha. Sometimes the wood would fly off. So never hit myself in the head but have hit myself in the nads a couple times. Still, wouldn't change the experience for anything!
@DFX2KX
Not sure of all the materials involved in the practice Nunchucks but it did have a foam padding. They were also weighted but you are probably right that they had a different reaction to his use. He must have spent quite a bit of money on the practice set. They had a nice quality chain unlike some of the "professional" ones people were buying at flea markets that looked like they were made of broom handles and swing set chain. The funniest set I saw had studs that were actually fancy "antique" brass upholstery tacks.
Eleven minutes and twenty seconds to say, "Data not conclusive."
InformationIsTheEdge thank you for saving me the time.
Much appreciated knowledge, thanks
In his defense he did say multiple times during the video that the info was sketchy and that he would be speculating.
On the bright side, at least it was well researched and not half-assed.
Why was this video 11 min long should have been 2 minutes at best - people love to talk TOO much
Having lived and studied in Japan for over a decade in the mountains I can tell you it's origins was not a rice flail but a simple tool that was used to pull up various vegetables and bamboo and the only time it was used in battle in feudal Japan Was in civil uprising when it turned out to be a good way to snag a spear or sword when multiple peasants would attack samurai.
Peasants were not allowed to have weapons. There are only two recorded cases that I know of where this happened in western Japan in the Yamagata area. These are the facts as I have translated from shonai dialect Conversations so there is room for error in the translations.
I always had a feeling the "Rice Flail" was wrong... Even though I did not know what a Rice Flail was... And yes, that does sound very accurate... Much like the Kunai and Rope (Or now as has become more popular thanks to Mortal Kombat - Kunai and Chain... Only works in games, A Chain woudl be FAR TO HEAVY!)...
I think we Westerners tend to believe the Kunai more as it feels "More Practical" for the same reasons as the Nunchaku, While a Kunai woudl be very unlikely to cause an significant harm if it hit, The addition of a rope woudl tangle a soldier and make them easier to defeat, making a simple Gardening Tool a viable defensive or even offensive weapon... Far from perfect by any means... No where near as deadly or damaging as Western Games make it look... In a pinch still very effective! And as you rightly said... One of very few things Peasant Farmer's woudl have had they may be able to sue to defend themselves!
Its sad how so many ignore history... :( I am not well versed on Japanese History myself but its something I enjoy... and want to learn more about... If we only took more time to understand our past, worldwide, we may be able to avoid some of the "Mistakes" we see today... Far to often we are repeating the mistakes of the past.
There is a sifu in Seattle who said in the 70s: you can have a whole box of nunchucks, give me a baseball bat, we see who comes out on top.
I know a Taekwondo grand master who once told me it doesn't matter how proficient you are at hand-to-hand combat, a skilled opponent with a stick can kill you.
Outsmarting all of them would be a street criminal or a con man. Taking all of their life savings with a smile and slowly killing them with poverty.
Moral: Fight with your mind, not fists or weapons.
Want an example? Look at what's happening right now. This is psy, economic and attrition warfare. Where only the corporations whom a certain country has invested are profiting, no one else is safe.
Yea and I only need a shotgun to take the man with the bat. And so on... 😜
@@THall-vi8cp an unskilled one, with enough forethought can as well.
@G G088 he focused his energy into his torso, then ate a shot to the head.
8:35 Ijust love how you just seriously refer to "Legendary hitman John Wick"
How do you not refer to him as legendary, he killed three men with a pencil... A FUCKING PENCIL!
and yet everybody forgets the time riddick killed a man with a cup
@@nathanstautzenberger8381 He was warned...
We are all forgetting THE LEGENDERY chef from ratatouille! He killed a man with his THUMB DAMN IT
Joker: “am I a joke to you? “
I remember my Karate instructor mentioning the Okinawan origin for this weapon. Also, I recall mention of different techniques for using it: not swinging it all over the place, but using the sticks together as a bludgeon, or to thrust into pressure points and the like. Or, using the mass of the chain as the striking element. Or, wrapping the chain around limbs or necks to grapple/choke opponents, with the sticks acting as handles and adding abit of leverage. Both techniques would be used with somewhat longer chained versions.
Of course, it's been ~20+ years since I took Karate, so my memory might be off, lol.
Another Okinawan weapon I remember Sensei demonstrating a kata for: basically, a weaponized oar. One of the techniques in that was using it to fling sand at an opponent to distract them.
Note: I never trained in any weapon. I was about to reach a point where I'd have the option to do so, when I had to leave the class due to moving. 😥
One of the best melee weapons of all time that takes the least amount of skill to use moderately effectively is also one of the easiest ones to find, the humble baseball bat. Baseball bats are basically clubs, but refined to deliver as much hitting power as possible (so that they would be effective at the sport) without being too large or heavy that they would hinder the user swinging it. Unlike crude clubs, baseball bats are nice and thin and mostly aerodynamic which allows you to deliver a lot of force with a lot less strength requirement in that an average man can deliver astounding damage with one. It's reach means that it will out-reach shorter weapons like knives, and the sheer blunt damage means that you definitely don't want to attempt to block it or you will end up with broken limbs. And best yet, they are not classified as a weapon until or unless you attempt to threaten or attack someone with one; you can carry one in your car and nobody will bat an eye (lol) until or unless you bring it to a confrontation.
Ah yes, the glorious Stick. Shad would approve.
I’ll just carry my 9mm
@@Bigbutterballs94 as useful as a gun is, having it taken from you is a life ending situation, you get a stick taken from you and you’re just gonna have a couple bruises
A bat is not very effective as its size limits the usage of it, it’s better to use a short baton or billy club
@@supahcomix How they going to know i got it when its concealed? I don’t be making it known to everyone i stay strapped brother, always keep the element of surprise.
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Some Japanese dude got so tired of always losing one of his chopsticks, he attached them together with a piece of twine.
One day during lunch his brother tried stealing one of his dumplings and he repeatedly smacked him in the face with his new chopsticks. *On that day the nunchaku was born and lunchtime would never be the same again.* 🤔
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You should start your own channel. I agree best comment ever.
Chopsticks? Haha. Good joke. Yes, I believe they are a weapon from Okinawa, based on rice flails. Various weapons and skills were developed by the Okinawans, including Karate itself of course. I remember how an inexpert robber famously knocked himself out with one while trying to show off instead of fleeing with the loot.
Mike Summers Karate is an umbrella term for different martial arts. Closer foot stance style may be Okinawan like Shōrin-ryū, etc. depending on the village. Japanese female.
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Chinese martial arts have a weapon named the 3 Section Staff. I'm guessing someone lost one section during fighting at some point.
Ah yes, I remember seeing that featured in an episode of Kung Fu from the 70s. It seemed like a reasonable idea for a defensive weapon, but maybe not for offense.
They do still have that in Okinawan karate weapon styles
@Peg Fox That makes a lot of sense because when I was a kid I learned a two-stick fighting method called kalis sticks, which are from the PHilippines and they're basically nunchuks with no connection.
The rice flail 3:02 is two-section staff, or Shaozi cudgel, in Wushu/Kung Fu. Also useful to carry things as a bindle stick. If trouble crosses your path, shake the sack free and swing away. ☺
Im suprised this wasnt mentioned in the video
Anytime I hear someone say that they are trained in nunchucks, my first thought is "oh, you took karate at a strip mall in the suburbs."
The rice flail is probably accurate. Remember martial arts in general were invented because they weren't allowed to have weapons. Clever conversions of crop tools would have been the next step
I can imagine it, with the original long piece, being an effective weapon against a horseman for someone on foot. So, can easily see it being used against the Mongols.
@Dillon BrunschonReally? He did say 'in general' & it was a short comment. Not a thesis.
Ninja's, which were basically assassins, were "born" because of that law back then in Japan.
During the day or when they didn't get hired, they were farmers and that's how a lot of them kept their identity as assassin hidden. Only a Samurai, was allowed to carry weapons during those times.
It has nothing to do with Martial Arts, different fighting styles already existed before the Samurai era.
The Swiss also fought with corn flails.
@@FactsFirst Who is the ninja?
As a teen practitioner, I can attest. The only one hurt, was myself 🤣
Seems more like a tool to train reflexes than an actual weapon.
Seems more..... no research on your part? Just tired rhetorical go with the crowd verbage. Stop being intellectually lazy. Challenge the reader and yourself!
It was a tool used for threshing grain.
@@sharronkelly115 What got you panties in a bunch? It is my own speculation and has nothing to do with "going with the crowd". Stop projecting and stop being such an angry badass on the internet lol.
I've felt for a long time that nunchucks seemed too dangerous for the user to be effective in a fight. Just because you don't have original thoughts/ideas, doesn't mean other people can't.
Again...stop projecting.
@@sharronkelly115 Where's your research? Do it yourself if you want to know stuff; complaining at whoever's handy is just intellectually lazy. Challenge yourself. Tired of the rhetorical VERBIAGE.
@@sharronkelly115 Hey, I came to the same conclusion. It was likely more used as a training tool than in combat.
Its called 'common' sense, or using logic.
Doesn't mean its correct. Not writing a peer reviewed essay, here.
According to the video, there ARE no clear answers in books. Reputable books even citing obvious fantasy.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but its a fact of life.
Study and research in areas of interest is a good thing. Rote denial of your own thoughts and intuition gets nobody anywhere and FAST. Applying these to your intellect? Better.
I don't doubt the greatest inventions, innovations, and insights get their start not because of something written in a book but something that triggers in an individual's mind.
Eureka! ...
...
Of course research is important, but sometimes the answer is obvious if not clear.
I don't know that this was more a training tool than a combat weapon historically. I can't prove it.
But it makes the most sense.
You start slow, get the muscle memory, then work on speed. There most definitely are kata for it, based on striking, disarming and controlling an opponent. I have used them in competition and training and a fight, once (to show off). They are a novel weapon, but mainly as intimidation rather than a damaging weapon.
> In 1960, master Shinken Taira designed one of the first known Nunchaku katas called maezato no nunchaku kata or, more commonly, Taira no nunchaku.
Nunchucks are fun, but it's definitely an obscure weapon that ended up popularized by Bruce Lee movies, not one coming from mainstream traditional martial arts.
Bruce Lee was taught to use nunchaku by Okinawa Grand Master Fumio Demure in the sixties. Demura was also the original stunt double for Pat Morita in the karate kid. Demura also published multiple volumes on kobudo weaponry, to include nunchaku. I recently spent time in Doha, Qatar with Shian Demura. Let me assure all they are a bit more formidable than portrayed in video.
When I was a child...during the heyday of the 1970’s to early 80’s Kung fu and karate movies I had several sets. I became quite proficient. I felt it helped with arm strength and dexterity that carried over to the sports I competed in. Obviously I didn’t use them in a fight 😜. Think my son has the one surviving nunchucks I had. He just turned 31, and is a professional MMA fighter. I have no clue if he trains with them or not.
Huh, so maybe it was used as a workout routine?
I was a teenager in the 1970's and I remember the popularity of the nunchucks and other sectional staffs. I remember one of the guys wanted some photos of himself because he had just bought a five-sectioned-staff. He became a joke when one-after-another each person who "tried" doing a "kata" with the five-section-staff somehow managed to either knock himself out or almost knock himself out.
@@NinjaMatt2201 That seems very likely. I'm going with that. Besides, spend 15 min on nunchucks and your staff handling would be hugely better. [Heh heh! He said "staff handling!]
Pretty sure 99% of all nunchucks in the world are in *Steven Seagal's* basement.
Im sure that was funnier in your own mind
Amongst dead rat skeletons who were used for his hair pieces.
Steven Seagal has had a black belt in nunchuckin for over 80 years
@Time Bandit - The internet is not the place for black belt pedantry.
You need to find your master and have them birch you!
@@alexkitakis3917 - He's been a nunchuk monster since 1888 and still as deadly as the day he picked them up.
They saved me one night when a neighbour attacked me with two beer bottles after one of his heavy drinking sessions. I didn't have to hit him with them but just taking the bottles out was enough to change his mind. True story.
True story too, although it's not about me. My cousin used to do pencak silat and in silat you use nunchaku's. So one evening after training, he must have been practising silat for at least a decade by then, he and one of his buddies are walking home when they get attacked by 6 guys who wanted to rob them. But they had their nunchaku's with them and facing so many opponents validated using them, especially since a couple had knives. So they did. Resulting in one guy having a concussion, another having a broken hand and a third having a fractured kneecap. The other three, already having been struck a couple of times and no doubt feeling a little bruised themselves, decided they'd had enough and backed off.
I remember him telling me this because I used to do aikibudo and we were always comparing techniques and discussing the philosophy behind both martial arts and if and how you could use the techniques you've learned in real life. This was his example of having to use them in real life. Of course the cops had to get involved, which is how he found out about the damage they had caused, but it was judged legit self defence and nothing further came of it. His dojo also thought their actions had been justifiable so he continued to train there.
@@easy_s3351 Thanks for sharing. I believe the nunchaku can be an effective weapon, as I've used it with success myself. It's true that it takes longer to master than a simple stick or knife. Hence all the haters who basically take the attitude: "I suck at it, therefore it's useless for everyone".
@Dillon Brunschon you don't get out much do you lol seen them in action a few times (without the flashy spinning) just swing it like your casting a rod
@Dillon Brunschon I used then back in the late 80s they saved me from a few beatings at times, untill gangs started using guns.
I've known of two people having experience with nunchucks around here. The first was a guy I worked with and he was a special needs person, but he always carried a pair of nunchucks with him everywhere. He was surprisingly good with them. The other experience I had with them was a local man was walking along the street and had a pair sticking out of his back pocket when a police officer drove by and saw them. The officer ended up arresting the guy for carrying a concealed weapon...
I was worried Michelangelo wasn't gonna get mentioned.
That was my first thought when that weapon was mentioned.
Considering how, in universe, he pretty much never hits his brothers or himself, it makes you realize, holy sh*t, Michaelangelo is a WAY better fighter than his personality would lead you to believe. Shame none of the movies or TV shows ever really explored that (as far as I can remember).
@@arklestudios well he did have that nunchuck-off in the first live movie against that foot Ninja. And in the 2003 series he won the interdimensional martial Arts tournament. They're rare but he gets his moments to shine. More than Donatello ever really does anyway.
of course...he's a "fellow chucker"
Brian Webber in the original comics, he kicked the crap out of Ralf, who in modern interpretations, seems to be the best fighter.
My husband and I have been known to battle with them covered in pool noodles to resolve arguments, worked for us👍🏼
That’s relationship goals right there.
Oh, I really need to try this!!
There's actually a Filipino version of it with a shorter "chain". As most Filipino weapons are improvised it makes a lot of sense.
Huh I didn’t know that. That’s pretty cool
I once saw a cop show how ineffective nunchucks could be as a weapon. I saw a young man pull a pair of nunchucks on a cop. The kid was good too. Those nunchucks were whirling around in a blur so fast he made the air hum. The cop calmly ordered him to put them down while he pulled out his PR-24 nightstick. The kid cursed at the cop and moved towards him whirling away with those nunchucks. The cop, as calmly as if he were writing a ticket stuck his arm straight out, the nunchucks wrapped around his night stick and the cop just lifted his forearm up to 90 a degree bend at his elbow and those nunchucks went flying through the air. The cop looking straight at the kid just started tapping the end of his night stick into the palm of his hand. The kid just looked at his empty hands in astonishment then turned around and assumed the position. The cop calmly cuffed him and took him away.
Yeah, that kid didn't know how to use the chucks for actual combat, there's instructors that teach cops how to use them for combat.
When I was in Junior high school, during the height of popularity of Bruce Lee, many boys in wood and metal shop classes made their own nunchucks. Eventually this practice was banned by the shop teachers.
a few years later it was throwing stars. Also, crossbows from leaf springs. That spring steel is almost impossible to cut and drill without ruining it.
They were so popular they are banned *BY NAME* in some business contracts for employees. I have signed 2 of them to say it is more than 1 company!
Nunchucks in wood shop, throwing stars in metal shop, bongs in ceramics. How we ever had time for actual academic courses is a mystery.
Then we learned how to make stun guns out of instamatic cameras. Apparently it's wrong to show classmates how.
I thought the entire point of them was to catch a sword with the chain part in an attempt to disarm a sword wielder. They're meant to look like some innocuous thing that you wouldn't imagine could be used to disarm someone. It was never intended to be used as a flail type weapon.
Yeah, I thought so, too.
Hold a stick in each hand, when the sword swings/thrusts towards you, catch it with the chain, try to wrap it around, and kick the opponent.
I once spoke to a japanese historian(was meeting them for an appraisal) and they told me that the Nunchaku were likely only used to practice proper form and stance. Not actually a weapon.
I’m sure flails go back as far as the first people to make rope
COPS Season 1, 1989, some of the Broward County Sheriff's officers can be seen carrying nunchucks instead of the more standard baton.
oh god i live in broward now. save me someone please
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It was the 80's. It was Florida. Don't ask questions.
@@Ootlander "Stop or I'll shoot you in the back!" Before police understood how to act around cameras.
Growing up in the 80s, we were legally required under schoolyard law to bring a pair to school and show off. If you couldn't get a pair from a flea market (plus a few throwing stars), you could make them from a broom handle and nylon rope. You could also get a rubber-coated practice pair to cut down on accidental concussions.
In some parts of China, the Nunchaku is also called shuang chin kun which, in free translation, means “a two- part flail“. However, in some regions, for example, in Fujian, the Nunchaku are called nng-chat-kun, which roughly translated as “a pair of connected sticks“. In the southern regions of China as well as in some parts of Japan, the Nunchaku are also called shuang jie gun or iang jie gun. The three-section staff, triple staff, three-part staff, sansetsukon in Japanese, or originally sanjiegun (Chinese: 三節棍; pinyin: sānjiégùn; Jyutping: saam1 zit3 gwan3, or Chinese: 三節鞭; pinyin: sānjiébiān three-sectional whip), is a Chinese flail weapon that consists of three wooden or metal staffs connected by metal rings or rope. The weapon is also known as 蟠龍棍 panlong gun, "coiling dragon staff". A more complicated version of the two section staff, the staves can be spun to gather momentum resulting in a powerful strike, or their articulation can be used to strike over or around a shield or other defense. Tut...Tut...Tut Way way older than three hundred years old & yes, a weapon!
A bunch of eastern weapons have the same history. Just farming tools repurposed for fighting
because historically Asian kingdoms have rather tight control over their subjects.
Unlike Europe, feudalism was rare in Asia, and Kings and Emperors appointed all the regional governors and officials.
meaning it was rather common to ban commoners and even nobilities from having proper weapons.
Where as Feudalism means regional nobilities were able to have private army and obviously proper weapons.
Well kinda makes sense, from a purely survivalist standpoint:
"If you can't grow no food on your fields, just go kill your neighbor and loot all his yields!"
It's the same thought process, as those people who were stocking up on guns in the USA as Corona came rolling around, lol
@@LRM12o8 No, the vast majority of people (a lot first time gun owners) that purchased guns or ammo before the lockdown was to protect themselves and their family. Not in Hope's of going on a killing spree, that's ridiculous.
@@LRM12o8 with that being said, I agree with you that people would do that in a worse scenario but that just sounds like a good argument as to why you should get a gun to protect you and your
And many of the western battles were fought using pitchforks clubs scythes shovels etc.
If you weren't well off metal weapons were not in the budget. You used tools at hand.
Even Bruce Lee said it was just a training tool for hand eye coordination, like a speed ball.
The Swiss also fought with corn flails, so nunchucks being based off a farming tool is believable.
Although the handles of flails are usually longer than the weapon part.
Le me: Watches a Shad video
RUclips: Hey I heard you liked videos about nunhucks
A bit late, but same! Now I'm imagining a nunchuck lightsaber. Extra dangerous to the user!
I just happen to be subbed to both lol
Morning stars are more impressive. They look scarier.
You can't stick those in a back pocket when not in use though.
I mean yeah flails are a legit weapon. But they are solid metal and designed to bash in the head of an armoured knight. Nunchuku would not do a good job of that.
@@ninjafruitchilled Flails were the least popular weapon of the time and died out pretty quick. To be effective they have to keep their momentum. In up close hand to hand melee combat momentum is lost every time you hit (and sometimes even when you MISS) something, then you have to work to build that momentum back up again. A person doesn't want to get hit by a flail (obviously) but a flail leaves to many openings for retaliatory strikes to be a "effective" weapon.
those were mostly used to get around shields
@@ninjafruitchilled you mean life a morning star? They look the part don't they. But not very popular, probably because swords, pikes, axes and spears were far more effective. Looks good though. And would definitely scare unarmed opponents, you wouldn't fancy one bouncing off your head. Although what happens when they get past your flail and are in close? Also, the verb "flailing" does not generally have successful connotations, as in "flailing around". This is a solid piece of evidence that they weren't very effective on the battlefield
more importantly, did they ever ChuckNuns
💩💩💩 that joke just stunk up RUclips🤣🤣🤣👍🍻
BRILLIANT!!
That's what we call the Ladies of the Holy Order of Norris. ChuckNuns.
A friend of mine went to see a concert once where Buckethead was one of the acts. I've seen Buckethead before but hadn't seen him whip out nunchuks, but he did that at this show my friend saw. Buck starts going through a nunchuk routine.... and clocks the shit out of himself in the head (excuse me, in the bucket), staggers a little, starts bleeding out his head, half-assedly finishes the routine and is taken away by an ambulance. I'm pretty sure he still had the bucket on his head when he went in the ambulance because he's REALLY protective of his identity.
A few points to add. As Simon eludes to a number of martial arts weapons were basic tools as the peasantry (in China) and all natives in Okinawa were banned from having weapons. Whether your weapon / tool was actually a tool didn't matter too much as long as you could convince the authorities (who would have no personal experience of farming) that it was a simple farming implement. Getting proficient with a range of basic objects used as weapons increases the chances of being able to improvise with anything similar that comes to hand.
They are effective as weapons in two ways. If you are good with them, spinning them round at high speed is a damned good deterrent and doing that windmill style at arms length keeps an attacker at bay. They are also useful for putting an attacker with a knife in an armlock/ wristlock whilst keeping them at a bit more distance than just using your hands and arms.
I can confirm that kids in the 70's in England did in fact make their own and did "slap themselves upside the head" with them, numerous times. Although hitting the ends of your fingers whilst trying to transfer from one hand to the other was far more frequent.
I knew as soon as you breathed the word "pencil", Mr. Wick was getting a mention. The mention does reinforce the theory that any item in skilled and intentioned hands is a weapon.
Also,
The Joker (Heath Ledger) - pencil
The Joker (Jack Nicholson) - quill pen
Jason Bourne - ball point pen
Martin Blank - ball point pen.
This seems like interesting video, I love learning new things :)
When Bruce Lee was just rebooting his Hollywood career {I knew him already as Kato from Green Hornet} I had just joined the Army. Finding myself in the correct environment I took it upon myself to master the hapkido nunchaku method. I got quite good at double chucks. They make an exceptionally good defensive wall that covers every direction with almost no effort - when used correctly. They can break concrete blocks without trouble, or disarm someone close. They're really just an extension of your arms. To this day I have two sets over in my drawer that I pull out occasionally and spin for grins. They're good excercise these days. And one other benefit that came from mastering them? I can easily take a set away from anyone, spinning or not. Even if they're only good for situational combat, they're still a lot of fun.
The kata I learned as a kid for the Nunchaku used it primarily as a club, rather than a flail. Most traditional kata for Karate weapons are not as fancy as what you see today at IKF type tournaments today. Also, the old school traditional weapon, the connecting cord was something like boars hair or sometihng to that matter and was much shorter than the chain you see in Bruce Lee films or ones you pick up at the store. Handles were also wooden and hexagonal. What I was told the Ryukyu (Okinawan) kingdom, weapons were banned so common farming equipment like the Sai and Tonfa, were easily explained away as stuff you need to farm.
UK: Ninjas are too violent!
Also UK: OI! YOU GOT A LOICENCE FO DAT SPOON?
@Paya Chinglish makes sense. Porn isn't easily kept from children, leads to unrealistic ideals about sex, and frequently is made in exploitative conditions. Prostitution is one of those things that is atrocious when illegal, but can be controlled when legalized. Giving prostitutes protections is a big help.
The UK sounds like NJ
@@austinshoupe3003 I would ay that eveything you said about prostituton is also true for porn., and other sex work. The only thing being that i would replace 'legalise' with 'decriminalize'. Especially now with most people having acess, basically, to devices with cameras and the internet, porn can be made relaively safely and indeenently, campared to working drely with clients in perosn. Anyway, listen to actual sex workers on the subject. They have peronal experience of the situation, and pf wat works and what doesn't.
"...with, a f"ing pencil" LMAO😂🤣
I'm surprised there was no mention of the common misconception of their striking power. As a martial artist of near two decades myself, I'll be the first to say "how hard you hit the opponent" is not the most important aspect of a blunt force weapon, but for this topic that aspect shouldn't be ignored. The truth is, striking something with an object is only as strong as it's weakest link, and in this case of the nunchaku, that's the connection between the two pieces. Yes, it can make the strike a lot faster, but it's still just pure inertia that causes power in that case. A stick of equal length, even if it were thinner and of weaker wood, to the nunchaku would generate a lot more power in the strike due to it being powered by the strength of the hand and arm, whereas the strength of the hand and arm would not be a factor with a flail, only the speed you can achieve, which would have to be several orders of magnitude faster than the stick in order to match its striking power. I'm not saying the nunchaku isn't a good weapon, I'm really no expert in that field, but that's one misconception I thought I'd get out of the way.
As someone who has some experience with nunchaku, there is a huge learning curve. Before a person can ever even attempt to strike another person with its successfully they have to learn how to move with them successfully. One wrong move can potentially injure yourself more than your potential enemy. no matter what I always stand by the saying, fear not the weapon but the hand that wields it."
I've definitely always wondered this.
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I remember my karate instructor in the 80’s showed me how to drill out our nunchucks and fill them with lead!
As if they didn’t knock your front teeth out good enough to start with!
In the 80’s and some of the 90’s martial arts were just so cool.... but now it’s just embarrassing with all the bullshitto that artists have been called out on now thanks to the internet. Stephen segal and frank dux being two of the biggest sausages 🤣
You studied at the original Kobra-Kai dojo?! 😲
Keep in mind, even Jackie Chan uses some fakery. He'd almost die doing a stunt, cut, go to the hospital, film the rest of the scene, then use editing to make it look like he was still standing and capable of continuing to fight after the stunt. It's a movie.
If the weapon was one that requires a high level of skill to use effectively and not hurt yourself, as you've pointed out, that would be enough for a lot of martial artists to master it and use it as a sign of their skill.
While I was a muscular, athletic young man taking Shotokan Karate (and Nixon was running for President) each of our promotions entailed training in a new weapon. We started with the bo staff, next was the kama scythes (with wooden blades). The next level was the nunchaku and last (brown belt) were sai. We were told this was an integral part of the karate tradition (I always had my doubts about that since “karate” means “empty hands”). Years later, the sensei told me that due to the popularity of martial arts movies, he wanted to make sure we were trained and supervised when learning weapons. ‘A wise move since we all gained proficiency in weapons kata and none of us was injured in the process. RIP sensei.
Me at 15..."OK, these are coo...ow! Well, I'll be more care...ow! My balls!" And so ended my experiment with nunchaku.
Done lost count at how many times I have hit myself in the balls with a pair. 😄😄😄
Quitter. Raking the tip of the head hurts worse.
The laughs, they just keep coming. "Hero" turtles. More ovaltine please.
Probably more accurate than calling them Ninjas
Turtles in the UK, turtle power!
yes, they were known as "hero" turtles in germany too - and i always wondered why the shows logo looked kinda like they had the "hero" lettering "photoshopped in"
On the off-hand comment about sword-fights in hollywood movies. There actually are quite a few scenes of proper sword (and light saber) fights, starting with Star Wars, you all remember that sceen where Vader gets a bit mad and pummels Luke and de-hand him, that is proper swordfighting (most of the original triology actually has fairly decent sword-fighting (due to Bob Anderson being the stunt double for Vader)).
But with hollywood movies in general; many many of them actually has pretty realistic sword fighting scenes with proper techniques - the trick is to stick to movies made before 1965 (in particular rapier/fencing tends to be by people who had least had some basic training in it or was coreographed by people who had competed in it - by virtue of it considered being a gentleman thing to know of), I kinda miss them using actual fencers and having the actors be trained and coreographed by fencers.
One of the best swordfight scenes was in one of the musketeer movies in the opening scene with the movie character in a brawl with swords in the opening scene. The opponents where the character and a man who turned out was his father training him.
Just a fun note, Tony Curtis who did a lot of swashbuckling films actually was world champion in his age group in fencing.
I could remember when I was young that rice farmers use 2 sticks joined with a rope of some length to hold a bunch of rice stalks while threshing. The two sticks will be crossed in each of their centers this forming a loop, moving the sticks closely will tighten the hold on the bunch of stalks. The ends of the bunch of stalks would be “whipped” on wood or bamboo which the grains would detach accordingly as it hits. I’m saying this because in the Philippines, Kali is practiced - a secret martial arts that uses any ordinary tools or objects as weapons. Those rice stacks bunch holders look like nunchuku.
As a person that has spent hours learning and utilizing this "weapon" as much as possible against dummies, it's fun, but Idk if it's really good for fighting. You really do hurt yourself, it bounces a lot so there's a loss of control. It has some uses, but I would take a rapier over it any day. The odd thing about Bruce, is Jeet kune do is a basics over fancy style of fighting, whilst he himself uses chucks in his movies, idk if he'd use them in real life. -opinion
Try some actual hitting with them kid. Bruce Lee would have used gun if he had access and need to.
@@vksasdgaming9472 idk what that's supposed to mean, I've used them for years, also kid? youre probably my age if not a couple years older lol.
@@SatenSheets You are simply stupid liar who keeps repeating same old lies and anyone can see it as well, boy. You have not even touched a nunchaku in your life, junior.
@@vksasdgaming9472 You're obviously a troll. I mean, going online and calling people liars over something frivolous like nunchaku's tells me a lot about you in general. It doesn't matter to me if you or anyone believes me on here anyways, who would I be trying to impress? Not everyone is going to agree with you. You should grow up my dude. If that's you in the video, you should work more on exercise, and less time smacking trees with this shitty weapon. Use some of that hand eye coordination on doing pushups, and less on putting food in your mouth. most grab-able tough objects can be a weapon bro, but not everything is an efficient weapon.
@@SatenSheets This dude's a salty nunchaku lover who has been vigorously arguing with just about anybody bringing up genuine, legitimate arguments against them with "Nuh uh" and repeated attempts to cite movies as a source of their "historical accuracy" as a result of Shadiversity'rls recent videos followed by a response from a guy named Milani, who I like and actually hope releases instructionals on how to practice with them. Anyway, point is, you're better off ignoring him than engaging.
the first time i used a 3 section staff i almost knocked myself out cold.
that was a learning experience though-
i never once in ten years hit myself with it again.
This weapon should have made the video. I think it is less practical then the nunchucks.
I did the same with both nunchucks & meteor hammer... Best teacher there is.
My first time with a 3 sec I broke a rib! Also ko'd by me own meteor hammer. Flexible weapons should not be taken lightly.
It took him ten years to get up the courage to try again. He then promptly hit himself in the head again and switched to the bo staff.
Was taught how to use the nunchucks by my uncle who was a Kenpo Karate black belt probably starting around the age of 7 or 8 and became incredibly proficient through the years. I was about 15-16 years old in 1997-98 and lived in some rough apartments in West West Chicago and was jumped by three gangbangers, I was first alerted to getting jumped by a big stick cracking across the back of my head, I wasn't a gangbanger but because I lived in a rough area I carried my nunchucks in the back pocket of my jeans absolutely everywhere just like my uncle did. After getting cracked in the head, I backed up and saw two more guys walking at me talking trash, I pulled out the chucks and absolutely went to town on all three of them not holding back at all, I'm talking head and face shots, shins, I remember blasting one guy directly in the mouth shattering his entire front row of teeth. So... Nunchucks are absolutely a very effective weapon for self defense if you have trained with them and I dont mean just tricks, I mean actually hitting objects so you understand how it will rebound and what not. If you are wondering if I still carry the chucks, I do not. It is a felony to do so and I carry a gun instead because it's much more effective against others with weapons and I have a legal permit to do so. But I still do practice with them all the time.
I have it on good authority that the first nunchaku was not made of wood, but of fish. Apparently, a fisherman who was walking home carrying his freshly caught fish with their mouths tied together with a fishing line was accosted by bandits who wanted to steal his catches. He first used his fishing rod to defend himself, but when the flimsy rod broke and was rendered useless, he had no choice but to use two fish tied together at the mouth as an improvised flail. And so the nunchaku was born.
Not going to lie. I have a scar on my head from hitting myself in the head with home made nunchuks as a kid after reading teenage mutant ninja turtles comics. Totally worth it tough.
Only the idiots hit himself
Yes. Me fighting off my brother with them for a place at the Gamecube definetely counts
It totally does!
Wether you fight for you country, for your family, for love, for the Gamecube, or for crack,
in the end, all that matters is not the reason why you fight, but the passion behind it, and the crack
I love how the narrator is so extremely nonchalant about the whole thing. Makes it sound interesting without raising voice tone too much.
L o l
Traditional Okinawan nunchaku are octagonal handles connected with string/rope/twine the name is descriptive, deriving from ni (2) and chaku (a unit of measurement describing the distance of wrist to elbow roughly 1 ft). The connecting string is also usually much shorter than any of the chains shown in the video, and should be just long enough to allow the nunchaku to hang over the narrow edge of the wrist. They can be used as a concealed weapon as stated, but also for trapping an opponents arms or other weapons more so than a striking weapon. There are kata in okinawan kobudo and they are often the 4th weapon learned after gaining competence in Bo, Tonfa and Sai. The nunchucks held together with long chains and bearings are sometimes referred to as speed-chucks and are mostly used for movies with more flashy spinning moves than traditional kobudo would use, the lighter handles and longer connection of these ”speed-chucks” make them much harder to handle and the user much more prone to self injury.
I must be going mad, because I clearly remember Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the 90s and Michaelangelo definitely had nunchucks.
TMNT was shown on cable TV as well as British channels. The BBC and whoever couldn't say anything about it.
Me too I remember Michalangelo with nunchucks I watched on SKY tv.
OMG a Mandela effect! LOL.
@@tabletopwarrior Or just possibly the script for the video got something wrong.
I'm guessing here. But I believe he meant in the UK the Chuck were replaced with a graphaling hook.
I only remember Michelangelo with chucks. But then again I didn't pay a lot of attention to TMNT. It was something my kid watched and it was better then some of those gay shows.... tellatubbies to name one.
I didn't notice back then but there sure was a lot of early mind washing back then. No wonder the Millenials are so F up.
Looking back the subliminal messages.
Whites are bad.
Men are bad.
Be strait is bad.
Working hard is bad.
Being tough is bad
JESUS, no wonder I let him watch TMNT.
Is it just me, or does Simon have a big egg on his head? Somebody been playing with nunchucks lol
Nunchucks really did get used in combat. Some of my friends were killed by nunchucks in the bowling alley massacre of 1987.
Pero eso fue antes del tiroteo verdad?
As a 3rd degree black belt in (Okinawan) Sho Ryn Ryu Karate I am trained in Okinawan weapons of which the nunchaku is one. Okinawan weapons originated as farming or fishing implements including the nunchaku which was used for threshing rice. It is however, not a bludgeoning weapon. Its is a cutting weapon. The wooden shafts can be hexagonal or octagonal in shape. It is the points of these angles that are used to slash. Also, an authentic nunchaku are only separated be three finger width of rope. Because of that, it can be used to catch a strike of an attacker and throw him to the ground. It can also be used to snap the neck of an opponent by catching it in the "vee" and snapping the handles, not quite together, but one over the other thus snapping the vertebra. These would not be used on a "battlefield", but in guerrilla warfare or one on one combat.
“smashing jaws like samson on a bad hair day” sounds like a dennis miller line :)
Really does
Take it easy with those, Cha Cha.
Game sponsorships are a cancer on this platform.
Pretty sure thats how the channel funded in part.
@@mack7963 ya don't say? It's still a cancer.
One quirk that’s worth pointing out - if your opponent gets a hold of your weapon it’s useless to them unless they know how to use it.
Probably the only real advantage over just having a big stick.
My life is now complete; I have heard the words "a tool to kick ass" uttered in British English in all it's proper glory by Simon!
Answer is: Yes. I’ve battled my skull, nose, and ears learning nunchucks 🤬 🤕. Pissed me off worse than self-inflicted slurpie headache.
just sayin’
Brain freeze has nothing on a nunchuck to the temple.
Always learn with foam chucks
@@craigh5236 no pain no gain. And the weight distribution for each pair is different.
Or raking the tip of the wrong head. That hurt worse than any brain injury I gave myself.
I used to play with nunchucks when I was a kid. I imagine my self as Bruce Lee, and the music eye of the tiger, playing in the background.
Instead, all I get are headaches and black eyes 😂😂😂. Oh those were the days.
Missed a few points here. Flail weapons are not unusual, the ball and chain used in medieval warfare is not too far in concept from the Nunchucks and also in Europe the long handled flail used in grain harvesting was a weapon commonly used, especially in Hungary, and were tipped with metal. It was Dan Isonato who introduced Bruce Lee to the weapon. Isonato has a background in Okinawan weapons and Philippine martial arts and a partner with Bruce Lee in the development of his fighting style.
Did not expect to learn about TMNT censorship in the UK, but I'm glad I was born in the US where I could properly enjoy replicating Nunchucks only to harm myself and others now XD in all seriousness, that was an odd censorship considering the show was about turtles and a rat that fought aliens and a blade-clad warlord named "Shredder". Oh well, hopefully that has been reverted now at least.
In the late 80's i knew a guy from Gambia that was trained in kung fu, and hence in the use of nunchacos. He wielded two of them, and when he swung them around, it was like a cloud of wooden sticks surrounding him. I still believe to this day, as a trained and still active military serviceman (who have fought some fights, both in training and for real), that anyone entering that cloud of sticks would swiftly be rendered unconcious. On a side note, the nunchacos are actually regulated by the weapons laws in Norway. This law regulates everything from sling shots to fire arms. It specifically states that karate sticks (karatepinner in norwegian (whitch is the lawmakers name on nunchucks (sic.)) are not allowed to own, alongside of brass knuckles, stillettos, sling shots, crossbows and their like.
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Being so simple to make, and being so very similar to a midevil flail, the possibility of its use is very high. It's basicly a dual handled mace.
I'll never forget the day I came home from a guard weekend, when, a white panel van screeched to a halt outside my building with someone quickly retreating inside. After a short while, I was headed to the door to get to my apt, then, my upstairs neighbor (a Hispanic man) came running out the door with a pair of chucks in hand, who proceeded to leap into the van which then tore off into the evening. Never saw the dude after that
nunchaku are very dangerous defence weapons in the right hands, I have fought against a Polynesian spear (taiaha) using nunchaku, the chain can be used to parry, deflect and grapple.
There is no need for extra flashy spinning of the nunchucks, simply stand ready to strike and when they're in range, the nunchuck is unusally far too fast to avoid, your opponent also can't really tell if you will strike their forehead or head.
Remember after your strike that the nunchuck WILL deflect randomly and crazily, that is when you bring in the flashy movements to regain control of the weapon while keeping your opponents at distance is the general idea from my combat experience.
I was told when I was younger that they started out a tool for beating dust and dirt from carpets.
that works well that way i tried that.
2:27 I'm definitely leaning towards the improvised weapon camp, but for a bit different reason, used for the same reason the cops used Mag-lite flashlights as a club.
My guess is that nunchaku were used as improvised weapons due patrolling night policemen commonly using the two sticks and a string as noisemakers to alert fellow policemen in an emergency. Because they might be still holding it during an encounter, they can swing it as a flail as a last ditch attempt to defend themselves.
I was actually surprised when I visited Japan during a summer festival and noticed some festival goers carrying around and using stringed sticks during the fireworks the same way that we'd used air horns and cowbells here during sporting events.
Wrapping the chain around someone's wrists and holding the sticks in one hand would also make extremely effective handcuffs. Although, effective or even just common desperation use by policemen would likely be well documented.
@@adde9506 yes and no. Unfortunately, a world-wide phenomenon when it comes to "commonplace" stuff is that it's often not documented because it's assumed the reader already knows the unsaid details. Only in the last century or so is this oversight being corrected.
My uncle knocked himself out, in the barn, missed breakfast. Weapons are dangerous, hence the term weapon. I gave myself a pretty good scar, luckily mostly covered by my hairline, with one of a pair of sai (釵) prong batons. Afterwards taking note how close it came to my eye... I gradually moved away from using that type of weapon. With proper training, you reduce your chances of killing yourself accidentally. But even with the best training, something could still happen. During military training a female soldier lost hold of her rifle while climbing over an obstacle and it flew up in the air and came back down with the bayonet (made of advance technology material) pinning her thigh to the obstacle (right through the bone). Paramedics had a hard time removing her from the obstacle but she made a full recovery. May God help us that all such incidents end with full recovery and no loss of life and lesson learned! Oh, here's the funniest one, where my brother used his body as a weapon, during basketball he made a jump shot, and when he came back down to earth his mouth collided with the top of his friend's head. His tooth drove so deep into his friend's skull that they had to be pried apart. Apparently the friend who now is a ship captain made full recovery, God be praised!!! And my brother didn't have any complications with his teeth etc. Life is one long infinite stream of miracles! But don't always count on it! Luck favors those who try to avoid needing luck! My brother in law witnessed one of his employees nail the head of another employee to the roof of a house they were building. The one on top of the roof didn't know the other was underneath him with head up against the ceiling. Whack! Full recovery, frightening, but now a crazy story. Be safe out there!!! All in one hour I watched two different soldiers break their ankles during Jujutsu (柔術) training. One was my best friend, it was terrible to watch, and took nearly 3 years for him to fully recover. But he continued getting better and better over the years, didn't break it twice.
Nunchuks are like tha ancient equivalent of the sawed off shotgun. Used by relatively unskilled people in street fights. Still a lot of fun to play with though.
I played around with them when I was learning marital arts, and I came quickly to the same conclusion. Showy, easy to f yourself up, and maybe only effective against drunks, and people with knives, so no better than my bare hands really. Did impress the girls though..
Your hands have one advantage over nunchakus, no one is going to take your hands off you and beat you to death with them
@@mack7963 I mean, they MIGHT but that would be a sad way to go
demandred1957 did you train the girls with it so they could protect themselves?
@@Wellch ugh...really?
@@mack7963 very true...
I am myself a practising martial artist the nunchuk are basically two shortened staff and they are connected so they don't get lost or misplaced they should be primarily used as two different staff less often to swing if the opponent gets little far away from within range.
The nunchaku can be the worst or very best self defense weapon, depending on one's skill level. I've practiced since I was 11 years old (I'm 39 now) and I can say that, if I ever had to, I could break some bones really quick. They can kill. But yeah, when you are learning, you will bust your elbows and the back of your head quite alot... 😂 It will always be my favorite weapon.
There is definitely a defined manner of using a set of nunchuks. Basically the user transitions between a set of positions that are referred to as clambering positions. This consist of of move the nunchucks from side to side underneath the arm. If you wish to strike you add a spin to the end nunchuck between the clambering steps. It really only requires flicking your wrist forward and then working it back underneath your arm. It really honestly only takes like.....a few days of good practice to not pose a threat to yourself. If you wanna try and start I would highly recommend getting a set of 14 inch octagonal wood nunchuck with a rope instead of chain as chain has a tendency to bind from time to time and not allow as much of a natural feeling.
Nunchaku are just like a passive fascination of mine 😅
Ninja Turtles weren't turtles, they were tortoises, turtles have webbed feet.
Tortoises *are* turtles, man. Look it up. Snapping turtles are their "cousins," and they don't have webbed toes either.
Tortoises are land creatures, turtles are sea creatures
Tortoises evolves from turtles and if you look up turtle on google you will see that the tortoise is a lower classification. Tortoises are just a land variation of turtle.
Tortoises did not evolve "from" turtles, they are still simply turtles themselves. The box turtle is also mainly terrestrial, with no webbing on its feet, and no one is stupid enough to say it is anything other than just another turtle. Educate yourselves.
www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/12/shell-game--how-to-tell-a-turtle-from-a-tortoise/
My uncle knocked himself out trying time be Bruce Lee with the damn things😂🤣
When learning the nunchucks you will hit yourself often. Once mastered you will hit yourself less.
I think the main reason they’re so intimidating is that, as they’re so difficult to master, someone willing to bring them into battle would have to be ultra proficient and deadly
Only to have to spend most of the fight more distracted than they would be if they were using literally any other combat weapon they spent the same amount of time mastering. It makes me think of the Chronicles of Riddick scene. "I'm gonna kill you with this teacup", and does. It has a certain intimidation factor when people see how lethal one can use a clumsy device, but that is all.
As for a practical weapon, I find that a simple heavy enough rock can be almost a more functional and deadly weapon than nunchucks.
@@adrianbundy3249 totally agree. Shadiversity did a great analysis on them that basically shows their practical worthlessness. I think the point that here that they were basically a training thing and never actually intended for combat is true. Hollywood combat isn’t real, but there’s a lot of people who believe it is
@@Maverick8t88 Real fucking "good" analysis ignoring things like history, context and practical use it still enjoys, boy. Try doing some research instead of circle-jerking your bullshit, kid.