[quote]Sifu wrote:
HolyMacaroni wrote:
FirestormWarrior wrote:
HolyMacaroni wrote:
the bar i would at banned us from using collapsable batons so now i carry some nunchakas around.
that shit is gangster
You’re fucking kidding me, right? Are you actually carrying a nunchaku in a bar?
joke man, joke.
honestly i think nunchaka would be an extremly diffcult weapon to use. a lot of the techniques don’t take into account the ‘richochet’ you’d get from striking an opponent
If you learn the weapon from an actual master instructor (like I have) he would teach you how to use them properly so you don’t have a problem with them bouncing back at you. The Sensei in the first video’s that I posted is using the proper form to prevent that problem. It is simple what you have to do. [/quote]
Well, yeah, haven’t practiced that much, certainly haven’t learned from a master instructor (if such a thing exists at all) but in my experience it pretty much comes down to putting emphasis on the retraction of the tip.
It’s not easy for me to explain that, not being a native english speaker, a couple of formulas would probably serve a better purpose here, however, I’ll try to nutshell that one:
Since a nunchaku is not a rigid body (as opposed to, say, forementioned baseball bat), any impulse that is applied to the handle (i.e. retracing it to “stop” the strike) will take a while to reach the tip. Now many beginners try to push through the target, thinking that will add momentum (which ends up as kinetic energy in the end) to their strikes - which it obviously doesn’t. It does, however, lead to a loss in stability, thus putting the striker at risk of being hit by his own nunchaku.
Take a towel and a partner and try this:
- Swing your towel like a baseball bat, driving it all the way through your partner.
- Take the same towel, swing it forward and snap it back before the tip connects with your partner.
In example 2, you should be able to generate a considerably stronger impulse - that’s pretty obvious.
However, due to your active retraction, you maintain control because after you’ve hit, the force applied to the handle transmits to the tip. This impulse is (should be) stronger than the forces generated at the bounce (you know, that “arrival angle = exit angle” stuff), thus critically affecting the resulting force vector.
Pfeew… Well, as I said, not native in english, so… does this make any sense to you?