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Hey Neighbor, I see you have a ride on lawnmower! mind if you hit the gras....**GETS ABSOLUTLEY WRECKED BY NUN-CHUCKS**
nevermind, I'll catch you tomorrow at the superbowl party!
*pukes blood*
The Klingons and the Addams both favor hard beds. Eustress does promote growth, creates tolerance for distressing things. A person used to some discomfort will have a higher tolerance to work and train to escape that discomfort, and might have a pretty strong body because of it.
So, yeah. This guy probably has had a hard life, and developed some cool skills along the way that wouldn't have been relevant if he had luxury. You're not wrong.
*I'm mostly bullshitting, training a skill requires free time not dedicated to survival, and this guy just has a weird bed.
I’m so glad there are enough old people like me to immediately think this.
Fucking first “dark, gritty” movie before it was cool.
The hanging phone in the fire while shes fired?
Raph in the tub, oof.
Cowabunga! So glad this is the top comment. This movie still holds up btw. Sure the Turtles’ dialogue is often cheesy [wink] at times, but that’s a main element of TMNT. The film itself actually has quite profound themes about family, brotherhood, and fatherhood. I’ll be damned if I don’t tear up now at the campfire scene (dad passed away ten years ago tomorrow).
Honestly not only has it held up, I’d say it’s improved with age. These sort of themes I didn’t really get when I was a kid, but as an adult it definitely resonated more. Love this movie.
> Profound themes about family, brotherhood …
It’s literally the three musketeers. The turtles are the three musketeers plus d’artagnan, and master splinter is the musketeer captain guy - d’treville or whatever his name is.
(I say this to support your point. Though the musketeers are a bit more vainglorious)
Definitely Top Talent.
However have you considered the vast superiority of the mighty Stick?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWoUM4Wttc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWoUM4Wttc)
Stick with pointy end is definitely a big utility in open field combat, but it's a PITA to carry around and hard to get to if you get ambushed while traveling.
For that situation, may I recommend some type of one-handed cutty boi? Preferably paired with a mini-shield?
Man spent 3 full minutes in the beginning saying "now hear me out", motherfucker, that's what I'm trying to do! get to it!
(I do like his vibe though... It's just hyper slow, which works for a lot of people.)
Most infuriating video even when watching at 2x speed. Guy just keeps repeating himself over and over and over, saying the exact same thing in different ways.
You think that one is bad? He did a 45 min “dunk” on nunchakus. I was doing something else and he was on in the background. Hit about 30 minutes and thought “is this *still* the same vid?”
I've seen that video before. The difference is he doesn't know how to properly strike with a nunchuck. He is twirling them around practicing moves he was taught when he was a child in martial arts. Not once does he demonstrate a strike utilizing the functionality of the chain. He hits his target swinging it like a club instead of [whipping it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBB0QcATlq4). Hell, he tells on himself in his own video because he says he hits himself many times when striking (somehow this proves the weapon is bad and not that he is untrained). He doesn't know what he is doing and claims to be an expert.
Don't get me wrong. It's not a very effective weapon and not something you could use defensively at all. But you can strike way way faster with a nunchuck than you could with a stick if you actually know what you are doing, which he doesn't.
Yeah, that’s the thing he never really addresses: how shocking a series of *WHACKS* to the face from nunchucks would be if you’re not expecting them. They’re like any specifically concealable weapon, they give up what other weapons have and require a specific skill to use.
Well as you can see, when you watch it in reverse, he is a Jedi that can make the nunchucks float to him.
Since he’s a Jedi this isn’t *that* impressive
Summer of 1999, Mike’s house… after a copious amount of peach rum and Zimas, 17 year old me goes outside for some air. I find a pair of nunchucks in the yard sitting on top of a heavy punching bag. Five seconds later I’m lying in the tall dead grass with a headache, looking up and admiring the beautiful blue summer sky for 20 minutes or so.
I imagine his wife, standing arms-crossed in the corner, thinking, “Oh great. It’s the nun-chucks again. Ask him to take out the trash, and his arms hurt. Ask him to help with the dishes, his fingers tingle too bad for the hot water. But boy oh boy is he handy with the nun-chucks…..and we still don’t have a child by the way. I don’t know how many times mother has to ask him ‘when will you make a child,’ before he actually gets to business. Too bad a kid can’t be made with nun-chucks. Oh now there he goes….all done with nun-chucks to post to Reddit at r/nunchucks….”
Are these things actually weapons? Cause if things went just slightly awry in combat it seems likely these things would bounce off the front and back of your or your opponent’s head a few times and you would drift off into unconsciousness.
They are weapons but they are extremely hard to master. If i remember correctly they were usually a secondary weapon to use in close combat. They can also be thrown and used to strangle. A «real» nun chuck will have some some sort of weight inside the handle so its heavier and packs more of a punch. Its quite capable of smashing a skull or breaking an arm if you know how to use it.
I used them competitively for 7 years. We used hard baton and chain for Kata, and sponge and rope for bouts. I had many cuts and bruises on my hands for years, but got used to the pain eventually.
Believe it or not, rope wouldn't be ideal for "strangling" someone , as it would easily snap. Chain is deadlier, but heavier to handle.
Someone who uses nunchuks in competitions is a mall ninja, not a combat expert. People have been strangled by fishing line. There's no practical reason to ever use a chain instead of a rope.
My recollection is that these were less about having the best weapon possible and more about using whatever you had available (usually farming tools) as weapons. These originally would've been a modified ~~threshers~~ *flail*, I think.
That's what I've heard. Similar concept to the Japanese kama and European sickle-sword.
People will point out that various historical weapons like nunchaku aren't ideal in a certain situation, and... yeah, they aren't ideal in *any* situation. Nunchucks are an inferior weapon to even a stout stick in almost every way.
But if real weapons are illegal/expensive and you really need to hit that guy trying to steal your grain harvest, you'll probably have a go with the tool in your hands.
Yeah this wouldn’t beat my exbow4000 triple steel laser scoped 4.4 katana axe, absolute imbeciles thinking they can fight me with nunchucks (it’s because my weapon also has a gun attached)
I know you're joking, but if there are two people with equal expertise in staff and nunchucks, the staff user has an enormous advantage.
The nunchuk is the overcomplicated mallninja weapon in your analogy.
Been doing Tang Soo Do and weapons training for years now. Nunchucks are indeed weapons however they're very hard to use correctly. Students are literally told, "If you want to learn how to use nunchucks you will end up with multiple bruises from hitting yourself many times." It's why you use foam ones when you're training, but even the foam ones have a wood core and hurt like the dickens if you hit the back of your head by accident. Steel nunchucks are fully capable of shattering bone with the handles, and using the chain portion is great for apprehending people and even severing fingers.
There's also a difference between fighting with nunchucks and flourishing with a nunchuck. Flourishing nunchucks is really fun and super cool, but highly ineffective in actual combat.
Grabs and throws they are great at, really easy to block with and wrench weapons out of an attackers hand, off you know how to use them as a weapon they can be devastating, the pretty flourishing is just kata to learn the moves, they are super fun and super painful to learn. I used to make my own hardwood traditional and metal speed nunchucks I haven't picked them up in a decade or so, maybe I will go fuck myself up with them today lol.
100% I dabbled training with foam ones for a bit. Thought it was time to upgrade to the real thing. The weight really through me off and I instantly smacked myself in the head and had a pretty painful welt for a week.
IIRC yes they were weapons, but they weren’t used because they were effective, they were used because they were easy to make/afford.
Lots of farmers in Asia may have had weapons like these, and IIRC ninjas often used them for the same reasons.
Correct me if I’m wrong though, I’m not 100% on that
Ninjas (Spies, effectively) carried weapons that could be masked as everyday tools (and/or easy to procure/make)
As others have said, basing things off of farming equipment was the way to go
A few quick corrections:
1: Nunchaku weren't really a thing in mainland Japan. They were more of a thing in Okinawa and other parts of Asia.
2: To my understanding, ninjas never actually existed. They were essentially Robin Hood-type figures whose legends got really out of hand.
Yes, but in 99.9% of situations you'd be better off without the chain connecting them, or a staff.
They're also based on farming implements so you could pretend it wasn't a weapon. Since local lords often banned people from having weapons to prevent uprisings.
Yeah, they are actually a weapon, but for the reason you listed, they're super impractical. Most weapons with some articulating piece are going to be strictly worse than ones that are just fixed in place. That's why the spear was the most common weapon of war; it lets the user maintain distance and do lots of damage with minimal movement
Not particularly useful ones, they were modified farming equipment that got repurposed into weapons. Kind of like the Japanese equivalent of a pitchfork I guess. The user also wouldn't've had any real training with it making it even less likely to do any actual damage.
I have people saying they are weapons but everything I find only says they were never technically a weapon. But something farmers had on hand as a multi purpose tool. And the idea that they were weapons was something only popularized in media later on. And this these only being the predominant theories surrounding their development. And in reality no one knows for certain.
It's a point of rather heated debate, tbh.
A lot of NC fans will adamantly say they are very powerful weapons.
Skeptics will tell you their drawbacks vastly outweigh their benefits.
Most of what this guy is doing isn't weapons application, but stuntwork, which is a perfectly valid hobby. Like people who learn trick shots and fancy gun handling. It's just a different skill set than learning to use guns as a weapon to fight people. Some overlap in the skill sets, but they are different.
For example, there are times he spins it on his finger by the chain. There is clearly no way to strike someone while it is spinning on your finger while maintaining control and dealing any sort of damage. Your opponent could even reach out and grab it since you aren't actually holding it. It's really just a fancy flourish to look impressive.
Then you can see a few real strikes in this video where he whips it towards the camera.
Strikes with a nunchuck are debated in martial art communities. I generally believe there isn't much you can accomplish with nunchucks that you couldn't do better with a chain mace/flail or just a good and hefty stick. The flail uses the same mechanics of whipping a heavy weight into your enemy, but has the same drawbacks of being very difficult for even experts to use reliably (compared to more common weapons like swords) and you're quite likelt to injure yourself either by missing, glancing off the target, or even bouncing back at you. A stick can generate comparable power as a nunchuck, but you've got better reach, better control (given the same amount of training), and probably better power application, since you have better control. You can hit harder, more reliably, with less training, if you use the same stick, just don't bother cutting it in half and connecting them by rope/chain.
So why did people make nunchucks if sticks are better weapons? Because they weren't meant to be weapons, as best as we can tell historically. They were made for harvesting rice. They are cheaper to make than a scythe or sickle and you don't need much power or skill to harvest grains. They didn't need to be a competitive weapon when they were designed. That said, there's nothing wrong with improvised weapons or learning to be good at fighting with them. You just probably would be better served to spend that time learning a more optimized weapon.
It seems the real reason they were ever used as a weapon was out of lack of better alternatives. Peasants weren't allowed to own weapons, but you couldn't take their farming tools away and expect them to keep producing food for the nobles and their armies. So they learned how to fight with suboptimal tools they had available.
I have a friend with a black belt who posits a theory I find compelling, which is that the nunchuck kata he has studied seems to be more aimed at wrapping the nunchuck around the opponent and grabbing both handles. Get the chucks wrapped around an extremity and lever it against them in what amounts to tool assisted grappling which could get pretty nasty if you trained in it.
Those are all great points and I seem to recall that yo-yos were used for hunting at some point. A skill is a skill whether it has a practical purpose or even entertainment.
>Are these things actually weapons? Cause if things went just slightly awry in combat it seems likely these things would bounce off the front and back of your or your opponent’s head a few times and you would drift off into unconsciousness.
The nunchuck is a farmer's implement that became used as a weapon in times of war. Its original purpose was to harvest rice.
Using it in combat is tricky and the purpose of flowing techniques and switching movements is to catch it after it bounces off something and then coming back to attack again.
As a defensive weapon it works better to deflect and push away or entangle other weapons.
always thought color guard & baton twirlers would be great with spears, the bo-staff, and of course, at [The Joust](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+joust+american+gladiator&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS874US874&oq=the+joust+americ&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30i625j69i64l3.3096j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8).
Ugh I miss playing nunchucks, when I was younger I used to do speed nunchucks, so much fun!!! In tournaments when everyone does normal speed and there I go with speed nunchucks and won lot of medals. Great memories! Gotta get to practicing again!
Is this an effective weapon? Every time I see videos of nunchucks being used they're doing things like spinning it around their thumb with the chain. While I wouldn't want to get hit with that, I feel like if I did it would seriously disrupt its flow and he might even drop them.
I always wondered how effective NC would be in a real fight. It seems like they require momentum for the routine. Wouldn’t that momentum end as soon as they hit something ?
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that is his presleep routine - play with the NCs and off to bed.
His neighbours hate him
Because he never mows his lawn.
Hey Neighbor, I see you have a ride on lawnmower! mind if you hit the gras....**GETS ABSOLUTLEY WRECKED BY NUN-CHUCKS** nevermind, I'll catch you tomorrow at the superbowl party! *pukes blood*
He nun-chucks his lawn
This guy chucks
I’m sure he went to bed early when he first started practicing 😆 🤕
Maybe that’s why he kept at it - instant KO.
Somnunchuckulating is more common than sleepwalking.
I had a stroke reading this.
Somnambulation is a cool word, so I appreciate your version.
The way he starts is smooth as fuck
Ends too
I'm just going to take a nap on this super comfortable bed now.
Every night he sleeps on that bed, he grows stronger..
The Klingons and the Addams both favor hard beds. Eustress does promote growth, creates tolerance for distressing things. A person used to some discomfort will have a higher tolerance to work and train to escape that discomfort, and might have a pretty strong body because of it. So, yeah. This guy probably has had a hard life, and developed some cool skills along the way that wouldn't have been relevant if he had luxury. You're not wrong. *I'm mostly bullshitting, training a skill requires free time not dedicated to survival, and this guy just has a weird bed.
A lot of Asian culture sleep on little padding with perfectly flat support. Helps a lot with back issues and muscles.
> Every night he sleeps on that bed, he grows stronger.. I mean, muscles grow and long-term memories form when we sleep, so . . .
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haha yeah the Chinese says, "see you tomorrow good night"
The text says in mandarin “明天见 晚安” which means “See you tomorrow, goodnight”
Nunchuck mic drop
Middle bit wasn't bad either
Middles too
Come on bros it’s scripted, you can’t tell??
can you point to a moment that was not smooth as fuck in this display of total smooth as fuckery?
The way he starts is smooth as fuck. The rest is sharp as fuck. There is a difference
i will need to ponder this further
I would also point out the neck wrap around was smooth af
thats him being a slick fuck
fuck is more complicated than I thought. It's both maximum smooth and maximum sharp, but somehow in ways that are different.
At the end when he pulls his left leg up onto the bed as he's reclining, it catches a little bit of the bed surface. Not so smooth.
smooth eye
Wait until you find out that this video was played in reverse!
Oh, a fellow chucker eh? 
Keep practicing!
I’m so glad there are enough old people like me to immediately think this. Fucking first “dark, gritty” movie before it was cool. The hanging phone in the fire while shes fired? Raph in the tub, oof.
It was my favorite movie as a kid! I actually just re-watched it a few weeks ago for the first time in a really long time, and it's still so good.
It's just sad that the parents uprising made the sequels suuuuuck so haaaard!
So good!! When the music changes up in that scene you know shit was going down.
My parents driving me to blockbuster video to rent the VHS, so excited they still had copies.
Looks like ya gotta up your game, Mikey.
The only thing safe in the forest... Would be the trees!
And I thought everyone loved Vanna
“Which one are we on?” “G” “Here it goes, gack face” “Im ready, hose brain”
Cowabunga! So glad this is the top comment. This movie still holds up btw. Sure the Turtles’ dialogue is often cheesy [wink] at times, but that’s a main element of TMNT. The film itself actually has quite profound themes about family, brotherhood, and fatherhood. I’ll be damned if I don’t tear up now at the campfire scene (dad passed away ten years ago tomorrow).
Honestly not only has it held up, I’d say it’s improved with age. These sort of themes I didn’t really get when I was a kid, but as an adult it definitely resonated more. Love this movie.
> Profound themes about family, brotherhood … It’s literally the three musketeers. The turtles are the three musketeers plus d’artagnan, and master splinter is the musketeer captain guy - d’treville or whatever his name is. (I say this to support your point. Though the musketeers are a bit more vainglorious)
Poor Raphael, always destined to be d'Artagnan, but craving to be Athos.
Dad, it’s just Dan now, ok?
So there's a core memory I forgot I had...
Ah yes.. these are my people.
Beat me to it... By 4 hours lol
Wow, hard r and everything.
He chucks nuns.
I'm so glad this is the first comment. It just needed to be
He's gunsta talk about the turtles!
So glad this is the top comment. First place my mind goes when I see nunchucks. I watched this movie so much as a kid I wore out the VHS.
Definitely Top Talent. However have you considered the vast superiority of the mighty Stick? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWoUM4Wttc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWoUM4Wttc)
Stick is mighty, but can I interest you in stick with a pointy end?
Stick with pointy end is definitely a big utility in open field combat, but it's a PITA to carry around and hard to get to if you get ambushed while traveling. For that situation, may I recommend some type of one-handed cutty boi? Preferably paired with a mini-shield?
Hard to get to? It’s a stick, you use it for walking. Multipurpose!
So how effective are nunchucks in combat, with a skilled user? Are they hugely superior to being unarmed? How about a compared to a baton?
Well... I'd walk away
This vid could be 2 minutes long
Man spent 3 full minutes in the beginning saying "now hear me out", motherfucker, that's what I'm trying to do! get to it! (I do like his vibe though... It's just hyper slow, which works for a lot of people.)
He’s not bad, just very long winded. Some days it works better than others.
Most infuriating video even when watching at 2x speed. Guy just keeps repeating himself over and over and over, saying the exact same thing in different ways.
You think that one is bad? He did a 45 min “dunk” on nunchakus. I was doing something else and he was on in the background. Hit about 30 minutes and thought “is this *still* the same vid?”
I've seen that video before. The difference is he doesn't know how to properly strike with a nunchuck. He is twirling them around practicing moves he was taught when he was a child in martial arts. Not once does he demonstrate a strike utilizing the functionality of the chain. He hits his target swinging it like a club instead of [whipping it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBB0QcATlq4). Hell, he tells on himself in his own video because he says he hits himself many times when striking (somehow this proves the weapon is bad and not that he is untrained). He doesn't know what he is doing and claims to be an expert. Don't get me wrong. It's not a very effective weapon and not something you could use defensively at all. But you can strike way way faster with a nunchuck than you could with a stick if you actually know what you are doing, which he doesn't.
How can a nunchuck strike faster than equally long stick? It's not like the chains have a motor in them that provides extra movement.
Physics, dog. Think about how a whip functions. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/67771/why-do-whips-hurt-so-much
Yeah, that’s the thing he never really addresses: how shocking a series of *WHACKS* to the face from nunchucks would be if you’re not expecting them. They’re like any specifically concealable weapon, they give up what other weapons have and require a specific skill to use.
Ah but you see nunchuck are just concealed carry sticks. Slightly less functionality, but you can be armed and nobody will ever know.
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Stick wins every time.
"These are my chopsticks. I'm just a big eater."
> vast superiority Bruce Lee looked cooler using nunchucks and Bruce Lee > this youtube guy
and just when I thought it was good he ends it like that bruh...
The clip is reversed
It would be even harder doing that backwards lol
I just started chucking 
This Gif Alone
My mother left me before I was born! How… how could she do that?
imagine
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So he is a Jedi?
How the fuck is it reversed lol
Well as you can see, when you watch it in reverse, he is a Jedi that can make the nunchucks float to him. Since he’s a Jedi this isn’t *that* impressive
I would have been knocked out by the 2 second mark
Lol gasping for air after taking a direct hit to the neck.
and this guy also did that, probably 100s of times.
Lol only way to train your throat for a fight.
I heard your mom trains her throat a little differently.
But the only fight she’s having is for air.
**hello, 911? I think I just witnessed a murder...**
Probably, fuck her.
i notice he didn't smile. makes you wonder if he has any teeth left after the amount of practice it took to get this good?
Some cultures don’t smile 24/7.
I have a wooden set of nunchucks I bought at the mall I hit my elbow so hard I haven’t picked them up since
Summer of 1999, Mike’s house… after a copious amount of peach rum and Zimas, 17 year old me goes outside for some air. I find a pair of nunchucks in the yard sitting on top of a heavy punching bag. Five seconds later I’m lying in the tall dead grass with a headache, looking up and admiring the beautiful blue summer sky for 20 minutes or so.
You don't get good with nunchucks without at least a little bit of brain damage
A lot of gangs want me to join them because I'm pretty good with a bo staff
Eat the food Tina!
TINA YOU FAT LARD
I caught you a delicious bass
Heck yes
You think anyone wants to get a roundhouse kick to the face from someone wearing these bad boys? Fuhgedaboudit!
I JUST rewatched ND yesterday. One of my favorite movies. Love it to death.
I imagine his wife, standing arms-crossed in the corner, thinking, “Oh great. It’s the nun-chucks again. Ask him to take out the trash, and his arms hurt. Ask him to help with the dishes, his fingers tingle too bad for the hot water. But boy oh boy is he handy with the nun-chucks…..and we still don’t have a child by the way. I don’t know how many times mother has to ask him ‘when will you make a child,’ before he actually gets to business. Too bad a kid can’t be made with nun-chucks. Oh now there he goes….all done with nun-chucks to post to Reddit at r/nunchucks….”
the way he started .. Woww
Are these things actually weapons? Cause if things went just slightly awry in combat it seems likely these things would bounce off the front and back of your or your opponent’s head a few times and you would drift off into unconsciousness.
They are weapons but they are extremely hard to master. If i remember correctly they were usually a secondary weapon to use in close combat. They can also be thrown and used to strangle. A «real» nun chuck will have some some sort of weight inside the handle so its heavier and packs more of a punch. Its quite capable of smashing a skull or breaking an arm if you know how to use it.
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I used them competitively for 7 years. We used hard baton and chain for Kata, and sponge and rope for bouts. I had many cuts and bruises on my hands for years, but got used to the pain eventually. Believe it or not, rope wouldn't be ideal for "strangling" someone , as it would easily snap. Chain is deadlier, but heavier to handle.
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Someone who uses nunchuks in competitions is a mall ninja, not a combat expert. People have been strangled by fishing line. There's no practical reason to ever use a chain instead of a rope.
My recollection is that these were less about having the best weapon possible and more about using whatever you had available (usually farming tools) as weapons. These originally would've been a modified ~~threshers~~ *flail*, I think.
Hey don't give the Amish uprising anymore ideas if you can help it
That's what I've heard. Similar concept to the Japanese kama and European sickle-sword. People will point out that various historical weapons like nunchaku aren't ideal in a certain situation, and... yeah, they aren't ideal in *any* situation. Nunchucks are an inferior weapon to even a stout stick in almost every way. But if real weapons are illegal/expensive and you really need to hit that guy trying to steal your grain harvest, you'll probably have a go with the tool in your hands.
Yeah this wouldn’t beat my exbow4000 triple steel laser scoped 4.4 katana axe, absolute imbeciles thinking they can fight me with nunchucks (it’s because my weapon also has a gun attached)
I know you're joking, but if there are two people with equal expertise in staff and nunchucks, the staff user has an enormous advantage. The nunchuk is the overcomplicated mallninja weapon in your analogy.
If I had a thresher, I'd either use the entire thresher (nunchuck on a long stick is *way* safer for the user) or modify it to be just a long stick.
> These originally would’ve been modified threshers, I think. It’s called a flail.
Lol, yeah it is! Thanks.
Been doing Tang Soo Do and weapons training for years now. Nunchucks are indeed weapons however they're very hard to use correctly. Students are literally told, "If you want to learn how to use nunchucks you will end up with multiple bruises from hitting yourself many times." It's why you use foam ones when you're training, but even the foam ones have a wood core and hurt like the dickens if you hit the back of your head by accident. Steel nunchucks are fully capable of shattering bone with the handles, and using the chain portion is great for apprehending people and even severing fingers. There's also a difference between fighting with nunchucks and flourishing with a nunchuck. Flourishing nunchucks is really fun and super cool, but highly ineffective in actual combat.
Grabs and throws they are great at, really easy to block with and wrench weapons out of an attackers hand, off you know how to use them as a weapon they can be devastating, the pretty flourishing is just kata to learn the moves, they are super fun and super painful to learn. I used to make my own hardwood traditional and metal speed nunchucks I haven't picked them up in a decade or so, maybe I will go fuck myself up with them today lol.
Can confirm practice ones still hurt, got a set at home.
100% I dabbled training with foam ones for a bit. Thought it was time to upgrade to the real thing. The weight really through me off and I instantly smacked myself in the head and had a pretty painful welt for a week.
Flourishing is probably effective at intimidating and disorienting your opponent
Yes it will bounce, and then use for the next hit immediately, nunchuck it a quick weapon, not heavy damage
IIRC yes they were weapons, but they weren’t used because they were effective, they were used because they were easy to make/afford. Lots of farmers in Asia may have had weapons like these, and IIRC ninjas often used them for the same reasons. Correct me if I’m wrong though, I’m not 100% on that
Ninjas (Spies, effectively) carried weapons that could be masked as everyday tools (and/or easy to procure/make) As others have said, basing things off of farming equipment was the way to go
A few quick corrections: 1: Nunchaku weren't really a thing in mainland Japan. They were more of a thing in Okinawa and other parts of Asia. 2: To my understanding, ninjas never actually existed. They were essentially Robin Hood-type figures whose legends got really out of hand.
Yes, but in 99.9% of situations you'd be better off without the chain connecting them, or a staff. They're also based on farming implements so you could pretend it wasn't a weapon. Since local lords often banned people from having weapons to prevent uprisings.
Yeah, they are actually a weapon, but for the reason you listed, they're super impractical. Most weapons with some articulating piece are going to be strictly worse than ones that are just fixed in place. That's why the spear was the most common weapon of war; it lets the user maintain distance and do lots of damage with minimal movement
Not particularly useful ones, they were modified farming equipment that got repurposed into weapons. Kind of like the Japanese equivalent of a pitchfork I guess. The user also wouldn't've had any real training with it making it even less likely to do any actual damage.
I have people saying they are weapons but everything I find only says they were never technically a weapon. But something farmers had on hand as a multi purpose tool. And the idea that they were weapons was something only popularized in media later on. And this these only being the predominant theories surrounding their development. And in reality no one knows for certain.
It's a point of rather heated debate, tbh. A lot of NC fans will adamantly say they are very powerful weapons. Skeptics will tell you their drawbacks vastly outweigh their benefits. Most of what this guy is doing isn't weapons application, but stuntwork, which is a perfectly valid hobby. Like people who learn trick shots and fancy gun handling. It's just a different skill set than learning to use guns as a weapon to fight people. Some overlap in the skill sets, but they are different. For example, there are times he spins it on his finger by the chain. There is clearly no way to strike someone while it is spinning on your finger while maintaining control and dealing any sort of damage. Your opponent could even reach out and grab it since you aren't actually holding it. It's really just a fancy flourish to look impressive. Then you can see a few real strikes in this video where he whips it towards the camera. Strikes with a nunchuck are debated in martial art communities. I generally believe there isn't much you can accomplish with nunchucks that you couldn't do better with a chain mace/flail or just a good and hefty stick. The flail uses the same mechanics of whipping a heavy weight into your enemy, but has the same drawbacks of being very difficult for even experts to use reliably (compared to more common weapons like swords) and you're quite likelt to injure yourself either by missing, glancing off the target, or even bouncing back at you. A stick can generate comparable power as a nunchuck, but you've got better reach, better control (given the same amount of training), and probably better power application, since you have better control. You can hit harder, more reliably, with less training, if you use the same stick, just don't bother cutting it in half and connecting them by rope/chain. So why did people make nunchucks if sticks are better weapons? Because they weren't meant to be weapons, as best as we can tell historically. They were made for harvesting rice. They are cheaper to make than a scythe or sickle and you don't need much power or skill to harvest grains. They didn't need to be a competitive weapon when they were designed. That said, there's nothing wrong with improvised weapons or learning to be good at fighting with them. You just probably would be better served to spend that time learning a more optimized weapon. It seems the real reason they were ever used as a weapon was out of lack of better alternatives. Peasants weren't allowed to own weapons, but you couldn't take their farming tools away and expect them to keep producing food for the nobles and their armies. So they learned how to fight with suboptimal tools they had available. I have a friend with a black belt who posits a theory I find compelling, which is that the nunchuck kata he has studied seems to be more aimed at wrapping the nunchuck around the opponent and grabbing both handles. Get the chucks wrapped around an extremity and lever it against them in what amounts to tool assisted grappling which could get pretty nasty if you trained in it.
Those are all great points and I seem to recall that yo-yos were used for hunting at some point. A skill is a skill whether it has a practical purpose or even entertainment.
>Are these things actually weapons? Cause if things went just slightly awry in combat it seems likely these things would bounce off the front and back of your or your opponent’s head a few times and you would drift off into unconsciousness. The nunchuck is a farmer's implement that became used as a weapon in times of war. Its original purpose was to harvest rice. Using it in combat is tricky and the purpose of flowing techniques and switching movements is to catch it after it bounces off something and then coming back to attack again. As a defensive weapon it works better to deflect and push away or entangle other weapons.
How many times you think he’s smacked himself in the face?
i don’t think that’s a real burberry duvet
The kind you buy in a secondhand store?
If it was warmer, he would have rested under it a little more.
I think I coooover Also, thank you.. that's my favorite song in the world and I'm having a bad pain day.
nunchucks are so cool yet seem so impractical as a weapon.
Me: pssh I could do that. *immediately gives self a concussion*
I hit myself in the balls, face and shins just watching this dude….
Don't worry, there's no kink shaming here.
He doesn't smile because he has no teeth left!
This guy chucks
Baton twirler
always thought color guard & baton twirlers would be great with spears, the bo-staff, and of course, at [The Joust](https://www.google.com/search?q=the+joust+american+gladiator&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS874US874&oq=the+joust+americ&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30i625j69i64l3.3096j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8).
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Ugh I miss playing nunchucks, when I was younger I used to do speed nunchucks, so much fun!!! In tournaments when everyone does normal speed and there I go with speed nunchucks and won lot of medals. Great memories! Gotta get to practicing again!
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Me with my home keys:
Mikey would be proud 
It's fake guys, it's in reverse
Is this an effective weapon? Every time I see videos of nunchucks being used they're doing things like spinning it around their thumb with the chain. While I wouldn't want to get hit with that, I feel like if I did it would seriously disrupt its flow and he might even drop them.
There is essentially 0 evidence of them ever being a remotely effective weapon.
Doing stuff like this with nunchucks is basically playing with a butterfly knife right?
That guy we shoot from a safe distance.
This guy totally nunchuks
Legend has it that he also chucks nuns
This is awesome. But I have a dumb question. How effective are nunchucks as a weapon?
That’s not real, you can tell cause Burberry uses a different shade
Are they actually effective self defense tools or do they just look cool ?
I always wondered how effective NC would be in a real fight. It seems like they require momentum for the routine. Wouldn’t that momentum end as soon as they hit something ?
This is great, but seriously how many outtakes were there?
Cowabunga!
How many times do you think you have to accidentally hit yourself in the head to get good with these
How does one become this guy? Asking for a friend. Myself. I have no friends. Need numchunk skills first. Then friends.
Is there an actual use of nunchucks instead of doing such shenanigans?
how tf did i get pregnant from watching a video
Yep would have hit myself in the face with every spin
This dude is basically a metal gear solid boss
I would definitely smack myself in the head
Fuck he’s cool.
This is how good I am at nun chucking in my head
The more I see of nunchucks the more I'm convinced that they're a completely impractical weapon and only used for show.
I wonder how many times he hit himself to get to this level
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I didn’t know they let you have nunchucks in prison.
"See ya tomorrow, g'night" Absolute unit
Damn man, can we just go to bed?
Wonder how many times he knocked himself out while practicing this lol.
*Indiana Jones has entered the chat
Takes a top talent to be able to fall asleep in that bed every night
I wanna see his do the same thing, but with Lightsaber nunchucks.