I learned on non-padded ones when I was in Karate way back when. You just have to go slow at first and get a feel for it. Even when you get good you still whack yourself pretty good sometimes…
yea im with red on this (what?!?!?did I say that? jks;) 
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I did/do ot the same way, start on non padded nuchuckus, then it wont be such a pain as you will get used to it and learn faster (the whole pain–>learning thing), thus avoiding hitting yourself.
Well thats just one way, I suppose using padded ones to start with can be beneficial in some ways, but the thing that bothers me is that you wont be ready for the knocks of the normal ones and it definately feels different to me, If I learnt on padded I’d have to then get used to using normal ones, when I couls have gone straight-risking a few bruised elbows and knuckles…
sorry i’m babbling on
soul
Nunchaku swings
Anyone know of any links showing different nunchaku swings?
(not basic boring ass crap, I want to learn some more fancy twirls and sh!t…)
Already have lots of spins… so… I dunno. Just want to learn more.
Is nunchaku part of your guys curriculm? Or is it just something yu do on the side?
Weapons in our curriculum-
Bo staff
Nunchaku
Double Nunchaku
Dagger
Double Dagger
Short stick
drunken stick and bowl
Single broadsword
Double Broadsword
Single Tai Chi Sword
Kwandao
Tiger Hook Swords
Sai
9 Section Chain Whip
3 Sectional staff later I believe…
We do staff (short and long)
broadsword
straight sword
fan
spear
tiger hooks…
no soft or flexible weapons 
no one was teaching it at the time my teacher wanted to do them where he wanted to learn them :mad: …
So, I’m waiting for someone to dig up the link to that nunchaku guy in the red gi… or was it yellow? The real ****y guy…
NP,
Nunchaku spins are part of the curriculum from blue to green sash and then green to 3rd brown sash but there are no forms, per se. My sifu has some single and double nunchuku forms, but they are not required for rank advancement.
Your prayers have been answered:
OK, so I was wrong about the gi… but I don’t think I’ll ever forget that guys face (or size of head)…
numb chucks… sounds like slang for cold feet…lol…
that’s it…I’m changing the font on my website…
that guy is really confused…long rope and long stick:rolleyes:
thenumchukhobbit is one of my favorite ma websites. Thanks for bringing him back, Golden Arms.
Almost be worth it to see him try wrist rolls this those.
one of my points, becca.
I’ve trained with them from a chinese perspective and a japanese perspective.
If you go to my website there’s a pic of me getting the crap wrenched out of me by the japanese style teacher on the photo page.
From him I learned that japanese styles usually had longer sticks and shorter cord/chain
in the chinese method it was shorter sticks and longer chain, but only as long as your palm is wide.
What’s your website, adress?
goto the flash site, the html site is boring
Thazz how I was thought measure a new pair, as well.
Off on a tangent.
Oppinions on chain vs. rope?
I have always used chain, but the last two pair I’ve baught seem flimsy. My current pair, I’ve only had for two months and the swivel is already getting loose.:mad:
I have been thinking of getting a pair of roap ones. But I’ve heard that it can be hard to adjust from one to the other. Has anyone tryed switching? What would you say are the pros and cons?
still on topic I think.
I have a pair of octagonal maple chucks that I bought circa 1985. There used to be a patented chain swivel w/ a proprietary name.
They rock. I just hit them with a little teflon spray every once in a while.
I have not purchased a chain set since then but I can only imagine the decrease in quality.
the string set I had to get for the japanese guy had some cheap nylon that I immediately replaced with some of that kevlar rope you can get from a climbing store. super strong!
If you replicate the factory stringing method it can be difficult to adjust. but, I would still do so because if it is the multiply strung method where there are 2 or 3 courses of the string running through the sticks then it is very strong. I use a fisherman’s knot to tie them off as I can usually make the knot small enough to tuck back into the string groove on the stick.
oops, just reread your message and realized you asked about adjusting from one type to the other and not adjusting the strings :eek: oh, well, I’m not erasing all of that beautiful prose.
IMO, it is a very definite switch between the two methods I have learned. But, I think it has to do with the length of the rods and the length of the connecting material and not string vs. chain.
I’m not training w/ the japanese stylist anymore so I lengthened the string on those to match the length of the chain on my old ones and can go back and forth easily.
“string vs. chain.”
It tends to be a little easier to smoothly swing the string ones than get a good looking fluid swing on chain ones. I have both, But the main thing with chain ones now, Make sure that the brace holding the chain to the bearing is an I brace (looks like it got smashed on both sides, so it wont slip out) If you buy the others with just a little piece of metal holding the chains on, they tend to shoot off. and they fly, really, really straight. Like a dart. So be careful.
Oh yeah, my Chain ones are heavy ass redwood, bout 1 1/2 lb apiece, maybe 1 lb, and my nylon rope ones are like about 1/8 lb.