:eek: Did I read the cover of the new KF magazine correctly?
I read in a previous issue of KF/QG magazine that Bruce Lee learned numchucks from Dan Insonato while Insonato was a student of his.
Let the 'chucks go, Gene. Really.
Nunchuks pay for this forum…
…know who butters your bread before you start throwing stones… or something like that. 
Seriously, are you guys saying that you’ve never swung a pair of chucks? [SIZE=1]virgins. [/SIZE] 
I MISSED SOMETHING!
The new kf/tc is out? What?
Oh, and NUMCHUCKS 0WN JOO!
Re: Nunchuks pay for this forum…
Originally posted by GeneChing
[B]…know who butters your bread before you start throwing stones… or something like that.
Seriously, are you guys saying that you’ve never swung a pair of chucks? [SIZE=1]virgins. [/SIZE] [/B]
Sure Gene, I’ve swung a pair of 'chucks, but people tell me that I do karate because we swing them in our school.
Oh, and MK, I browsed the article and the guy called them two-sectional staff. I know you love that!
Re: Re: Nunchuks pay for this forum…
Originally posted by Judge Pen
Oh, and MK, I browsed the article and the guy called them two-sectional staff. I know you love that!
fokking great…:mad:
To top it off I love when people call them “nun chucks” instead of thier japanese name “nun cha ku” meaning “patti tool” or even worse is “numb chucks” as in numb skull, thats got to be the best one I’ve heard…you know your not a martial artist if you dont own a pair…LOl
Originally posted by EarthDragon
To top it off I love when people call them “nun chucks” instead of thier japanese name “nun cha ku” meaning “patti tool” or even worse is “numb chucks” as in numb skull, thats got to be the best one I’ve heard…you know your not a martial artist if you dont own a pair…LOl
Do you mean paddy tool, as in rice paddy?
Numb skull.
patti paddy , same thing you know what I mean, japanese translations from kenjo usually end with and “I”
I read in a previous issue of KF/QG magazine that Bruce Lee learned numchucks from Dan Insonato while Insonato was a student of his.
i recently heard a verbal statement that Jim Harrison taught Bruce the nunchaku. can’t verify, of course, but there you go.
In Inosanto’s book on Jeet Kune Do, he states that he taught Lee the nunchaku (tabak toyok in kali). Tried to teach him stick as well, but Lee wasn’t interested as the story goes.
Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
I posted this photo of George Xu from Tai Chi Magazineabout six months ago.
I’d say that about settles it, personally.
Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
I posted this photo of George Xu from Tai Chi Magazineabout six months ago.
Man, that dude is tiny!
'Course, I posted that with the provision that given the extreme difference in size between what George has got there and what we normally think of as nunchaku, there isn’t neccesarily a whole lot of similarity between the two. I’ll now add that I don’t really know squat about George Xu, whether his xingyi is any good/authentic, and would have no way of judging even if I had more to go off than a single, obviously posed still photograph.
Nevertheless, a real 2-section staff is a long weapon. Not the compact numchucks Bruce made famous. Numchuks, at best, are a two-section stick.
verbal, and unverified as I said.
so, there is a philipine version of nunchaku?
Right. But I think it’s well within the bounds of effective marketing and not particularly misleading to describe such a weapon (or an article on said weapon) as “chinese nunchaku.”
Originally posted by Oso
[B]verbal, and unverified as I said.
so, there is a philipine version of nunchaku? [/B]
There’s a filipino name for it, yeah. It’s the same weapon though. (Unlike the obvious size difference in the Okinawan vs. Chinese examples we’re getting here.)
As for the verbal claim, there’s nothing to say that Lee didn’t get nunchaku tips from two different sources. He got kicking tips, punching tips, grappling tips, etc. from different sources. So why not?