Hi,
Does anyone know of this book,
"Nunchakus in action", by Bruce Lee,
If so, is it any good, as i am wanting to leran the nunchaku but arent sure whats the best book, as i am very interested in Bruce Lee maybe a book by him is a good way to start.
Dave
Nope, sorry. I’m familiar with the book by Fumio Demura–it’s pretty good.
Yea he supposed to be a really good waepons expert but i just wondered if the Bruce Book was any good.
Dave
I havent heard of that book by bruce Lee.
If you find it, tell me the #, i would like to obtain a copy.
Im not sure it exists tho.
All the books on the nunchaku I have found are pretty poor. Do a web search for nunchaku, look at TKD sites, also the weapon is called “Tabla Tabla” in Kali weapon systems, you can find many videos and books on Kali weapons, including a series (3 videos) by Dan Insonanto - he touches on Tabla Tabla several times in each.
Hi,
Yea i know what you mean i didnt know one exised either but when i was is this book store this man told me that i should look in a martial arts mag for a mail order company which seel some books or videos cos thats the best way he finds the stuff he wants.
So i got martial arts mag and in it, in this store in kent in england it say Nunchaku in action by bruce lee, also the man mentioned that bruce lee had done one but that it was only a thin one.
Dave
Do you have any nunchaku yet?
If not, go buy a pair, foam or stringed wooden (the foam ones hurt less, but still hurt)
Then just start swinging them. You WILL learn. You WILL hurt.
Elbows are the fu(king worst.
Hi,
Yea i got one about a month ago, a foam one with a attaching string. Yea ive been doing that but some of that more complacted movement i dont know so i cant try and learn them, but i agree just swinging it about is a good starting way to learn.
Dave
Fellow chucker eh?
i certainly am:)
Nunchaku…
I need to get hold of a good book or video that teaches Nunchaku. Any suggestions? I don’t have access to a trainer right at the moment but I was shown the basics when I did. I’m more interested in the practical applications than the tricky forms and flips often associated with the nunchaku.
Thanks!
For practacality check out fiipino systems, they are very similar to the stick and butterfly knives. Filipino systems work for nearly all weapons regardless of what weapon they are actually taught with.
Check into other flexible weapons, 3 section staff, chinese whip, rope, table cloth, etc, etc.
There are a couple threads on the JKD forum and the street fighting forum.
Thanks Yenhoi. I’ll do just that. Anyone else can help me?
Let experience be your guide. Take a pair of nunchuku. Think of a situation. Be appropriate.–Ernie Moore Jr~
no_know is very correct.
learn pain, find knowledge, love nunchaku.
learn pain.. :o
the fancy stuff can be fun though and it helps you get more compfortable with the weapon. I only know 3 section staff so can’t reallly help w/ nunchuk
Ryukyu…
The nunchaku is an integral implement in Okinawan Kobudo/Kobujutsu (weapons way/art). Find a good book on Okinawan Kobudo or ask a BB Okinawan stylist if he knows and can teach you a nunchaku kata. The Shorin styles specialize in Kobudo as does Okinawan S h i t o Ryu. The Goju styles and Japanese styles (Shotokan, Wado Ryu) do not concentrate on Kobudo as much (or at all).
The true application of 'chux not only includes whipping strikes but also a lot of trapping and grappling bunkai. I doubt that Escrima/Arnis/Kali could teach you the traditional use of an Okinawan implement. They specialize in Filipino weapons (ie: balisong, criss dagger, 1 or 2 sticks, etc.).
If you have soft trees (ex:banana trees) or a heavy bag that can take some abuse, you can practice striking and retrieval, and how to avoid striking yourself on the recoil. Spinning the chux also takes practice, but true nunchaku forms don’t overdoe it with the constant spinning.
Remember if you wanna learn real nunchaku forms find a Shorin Ryu BB. Bruce Lee learned from Tadashi Yamas h i t a (it’s ridiculous that I have to type his name like this to avoid the asterisks), a Shorin Ryu- Shorinkan weapons expert.
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Light padded ones for beginners. Any thoughts about this? I’m still new to this so I’m hitting myself a lot. Namely, the tips of my fingers. This serves to make me timid about the swings. The more timid I am about them, the more I hit myself.
So I thought I should get some light, padded ones and get profficient with them before moving on the the heavy, solid ones.
But then I wonder how much good that will do me since the weight difference will be significant. Maybe it will be so different when I move on to the real ones that having practiced with the padded ones will have done me no good.
Thoughts?
Get a 3 section staff instead…
http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/25-33.html
they are much cooler…
you could always weight the chucks yourself too.
I’ve only futzed around with a friends set of nunchaku (not to be confused with the ultimate weapon - numbchuks!) but they were easy enough that I didn’t feel any need to work with the padded ones, and went straight to the solid wood dealies.
On the other hand, I’ve futzed around even less with the foam padded three-section-pole at my school, and I’m D@MN glad it was foam padded and hollow. Man, that was a lot more complicated.
Da Biz is right, though. The three section pole is much more tres b!tchen’. Probably because it’s more complicated.