I like martial arts movies, and I like martial arts moves. So, naturally, I’m interested in movies that show techniques for martial arts moves. Now, having grown up on Bruce Lee movies as a kid, and having taken up Jiu Jutsu as an adult, and dabbled with Jeet Kune Do, I’ve always had an interest in nunchucks. So, I’ve been looking for a nunchucks training DVD.
Now, I’ll be honest, when I was a kid, my brother and I made nunchucks and tried to use them trying to do the moves we saw Bruce Lee do in Enter The Dragon and Fists of Fury. And man, did we clobber ourselves good. As I got older, I decided there had to be better ways to learn nunchucks than battering the back of my own head with them.
The numchucks is a pair of foot long wooden batons with a length of rope or chain between them. In Okinawan Karate, nunchuks grew out of the short grain flail, because peasants weren’t allowed to have weapons. Using nunchuks first requires familiarization with their moves, and a good nunchuks training DVD is really helpful, particularly since it can show the moves going at slow speed, so you can see how the grip changes when you do a cross...