Nunchaku Tutorials

Many times, people think that the only way to use a nunchaku is with the max speed you can put into it, but that’s quite wrong!

In freestyle nunchaku, you first need to know how to do what you are trying to do, and after that, you can add speed to the nunchaku trick or move.
Like in anything you do with your body, you first need to learn what you are doing, and after you got a good foundation, you can move forward.

But why is better to first learn the basic trick and then add speed, and not learn the trick with max speed?

Why you shouldn’t try a new move with high speed:

• You don’t know how to do the trick well enough, so it’s probably that you will fail a lot of times. But a mistake at high speed can cause a lot more damage than a mistake at low speed. You can injure yourself or others by learning at high speed.
• There’s a high chance that you will get the trick done wrong, and your body will learn it wrong, and that will be really difficult to change.
• You will fail a lot more times, increasing the time of learning, and you will be wasting time when you could be learning something new.

So, I should never do my tricks at high speed?

• Of course you should do nunchaku moves with high speed if you like them, but you should know when to train with speed.
• Remember that speed is not the only aspect of freestyle nunchaku, you should also mix with creativity, improvisation, smoothness, entertainment, fun, etc… so keep a balance.
• Always be careful when you are using high speed. Look around the zone you are freestyling, so you don’t hit anything/anyone.
• Check the nunchaku before using them, so there won’t be any flying nunchaku stick around.

When to train with speed:

• Once you have a good control over the nunchaku
• Once you feel confident with the nunchaku
• If you don’t have confidence or you lack control, you will end dropping the nunchucks a lot and probably injury yourself or someone or breaking something, so be careful!

The planes are a flat surface on which a straight line joining any two points on it would wholly lie. Image that when your are holding the nunchaku, you are inside a cube. The walls of the cube will be the planes at where you can swing the nunchaku.

Planes:

• Face or Front Plane
• Cross Plane: Between the face and back planes
• Back Plane
• Near Wall
• Core Plane: Between the near and far wall.
• Far Wall
• Roof
• Floor

Here are some pictures, so you will get a better idea:

Face or Front Plane:

Back Plane:

Near Wall:

Far Wall:

Roof:

Floor:

(Based on the work of Kristov: http://www.freestyleforum.net/index.php?topic=4602.0)