Mostly simple stuff today. The only thing to watch out for is hitting your elbow with the armpit catch.
More later! S
Side Bounce Pass to Forward Elbow Pass
Something nice and easy. A simple way to bridge a between horizontal and vertical path. More very soon! S
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.
F2F Spin/Aerial Hybrid PH Intercept Wrist Spin
Now we’re going to take yesterdays trick and finish it with a Primary Hand Wrist Intercept!
Instead of the catch you could always SAH again… S
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
Backhand Catch and Return
The last few posts were pretty heavy duty so now we’re going to go through something very simple that we will build upon a lot later. The Backhand Catch and Return:
This easy structure allows for a remarkable amount of innovation as you will see in the first of my new HD tutorials: Trick Progression – Comming soon! 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!
F2BFS 2 B2BSAH 2 IFS/SAH 2 Backhand Catch 2 BB2BWS
Front to Back Finger Spin to Back to Back Spin/Aerial Hybrid to Intercept Finger Spin/Spin Aerial Hybrid to Backhand Catch to Broken Back to Back Wrist Spin. Don’t be put off by the name, once you understand the principles behind this its quite straight forward.
I’ll break it down into stages:
Start in Fronthand, Finger Spin to Backhand then the Spin/Aerial Hybrid (SAH). With the SAH you’re going to do the shape of a Back to Back Wrist Spin but instead of catching you flick the chucks into the air with an open palm, complimenting the existing momentum to get an Aerial. Done right the path is predictable. Then comes the Intercept. Same as the yesterdays Intercept but in the opposite direct, Backhand to Backhand. Repeat the previous SAH but obviously with fingers instead, for another Aerial then catch in Backhand. Again not wasting any momentum you put your wrist in position so the Nunchaku wrap around, then catch.
The important things I see here are the SAH and the Intercept. With these tricks and a few more we haven’t covered yet you can bridge the gaps between other tricks with more tricks, off into infinity.. Beautiful!
More to come on that tomorrow. S
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