Tips on Doing a Nunchucks Warm Up

Video Transcript

"CALAB LABARDA: Oh, hi. My name is Calab Labarda, I'm a third degree black belt in Taekwondo. I'm here with Expert Village, and today, I'm going to teach you how to use speed chucks. Now, when doing speed chucks, it is important to cut sounds, it's kind of silly, but you do actually need to warm up for it, alright? And if your exercise is to warm up, you're mostly going to be warming up your wrist, 'cause that's going to be the part of your body that's going to be using it the most and your fingers, okay, believe or not. For speed chucks, you're going to be spinning them around your fingers, around your thumbs, okay, around wrist. So, I've actually hurt my wrist before when you start building up speed and going really fast. If you don't warm up your wrist properly, you can hurt them. So, go and take your nunchuck. Put it on one hand, and just go back and forth. Just really loosen it up. It will get your arm moving, loosens up the whole upper body right here, and you should do both hands, even though we're just going to be using one today. For beginning nunchucks, beginning speed chucks, okay. I'll go and just loosen your wrist because I like to go up and down, it's kind of silly. Go up and down, like this, and you can go side to side, okay. Just take your wrist and go back and forth like that, come all the way out, and stretch out your fingers, pushing each finger like that a little bit, that might pop a little bit. Push them back over. And now for your thumbs, go take your thumbs and bend back a little bit, stretch them out, stretch them both ways. Do both hands, it's very important, okay. Really, I really stretch those hands. You can even use the ground and sit on your knees and lean forward, turn them around, lean backward, stretch out your wrist, and then, go wrist down, and stretch out your wrist that way, okay? And then once your wrists are all warmed up, where would they go? Work on some speed chucks."