By repeating a beat on one side then pivoting we are going to break between forwards and backward figure eight and back again.
Category Archives: Tricks
Round The Back Opposite Arm Spin
Not a lot to say about this one, the name and vid speak for themselves.
Broken Back to Back Spin
The Back to Back Wrist Spin just without the spin.
Reverse Broken Back to Back Spin
The Back to Back Wrist Spin without the spin. The other way around.
Opposite Intercept Wrist Spin
This is like an Opposite Arm Spin (OAS), where the Nunchaku is propelled around the opposite wrist by the primary hand. With this trick the opposite arm acts instead, placing itself in the path of the Nunchaku, after a primary hand trick, to intercept.
The Drop Pass
Place the opposite hand behind the body in the Shoulder Pass catching hand position, execute a Reverse Armpit Catch, then drop the bar in your primary hand into the awaiting secondary hand.
F2F SAH to Primary Front Hand Catch
A new SAH for you. Front to Front SAH with a Primary Front Hand Catch. As with the B2BSAH your going to execute a Wrist Spin but use the existing momentum augmented by a flick to launch an Aerial where you would usually catch.
This time it will be horizontal. Let it fly for a bit then catch with the same hand. I generally get a 180 or 360 Aerial out of it but other variations are possible, as are backhand catches and/or opposite hand catches. And more, but that’s for later. S
Opposite Wrist Spins Tutorial
With the previous video’s I introduced the Intercept and SAH concepts. These are two of my favourite concepts and can be used to exploit the gaps within or between tricks to make more interesting things happen. Now its time for another equally important idea: Opposites.
This time we are talking about Wrist Spins but the idea applies equally to fingers or just about any extremity you like. Instead of sending the Nunchaku around the primary wrist, you’re going to send it around the opposite one.
Enjoy!
Front to Front Aerial to Intercept Finger Spin
Instead of catching the aerial we are going to put two fingers in its path around where the trick would usually end, harnessing (but not interrupting) the motion and get some finger spins out of it. This is the basis for what I call ‘Intercepts’.
This idea can be applied to any aerial on a predictable path to intercept with open fingers, closed, single finger, wrist, thumb, ankle..
Here is another vid of the same trick:
Other variants up soon! S
Wristrolls vs Handrolls
This post is to point out about nunchaku wristrolls and handrolls.
There have been many arguments of what is a wristroll and what is a handroll in freestyle nunchaku, but in this site, I will call both moves as wristrolls, to avoid any misunderstanding. Of course you can call the moves whatever you want, the important thing here is that you know the move!
Keep chucking, and have fun!