How to do Thumb Spins with Nunchucks

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. Okay. Now, we're going to go over your thumb spin. It's going to look like that, back around. Okay, thumb spin, go around, catch, okay? You do it from top to bottom. One, back like this and then spin it back around, okay? Thumb spins are really cool. You can't do this with any nunchucks except for speed chucks just because the string is so small, okay? It requires a fast motion, okay? You can't really do it too slow, it's kinda hard, okay? So, now, let's talk about how I do it from here, okay? From my hip all the way out to the spin. It's going to be like one, thumb spin, catch and flip, okay? So, a thumb spin into a wrist spin, that's what we're going to be doing right now. Okay, so, from here, I'm going to take my nunchuck. I'm going to spin it out. Practice just spinning like that first, okay? Have a full spin all the way around like that. One, two, try to get your nunchuck really flat. Okay, now, as I do it, I'll take my nunchuck and spin it and I'm going to leave my whole hand flat with my thumb up, okay? So, one more time, as I spin, whole hand up thumb flat, just like that, okay? So, when I do it from here, whole hand up, thumb flat like this or you can have it out instead of flat and then it's going to spin all the way around the wrist--the thumb, excuse me. You're going to catch the bottom part. So, you're going to do a half spin. As you come back around, you're going to catch it all the way to the catch, okay? You can do a wrist spin. So, here a thumb spin, catch, okay? So, remember, out, thumb out, okay? Just like you're waving a "Hi." or a handshake, out, thumb, spin around the wrist, catch. That's the motion of it. Again, one, two, catch, just like that, okay? So, that's going to be your wrist spin all the way to a catch, okay? You can also do it from up here. One, down, spin up, two, into a catch upside down, then you'll do a flip over, okay? So, again, spin down, one, now you'll just going to do a basic thumb spin up all the way to my catch and then do a spin over, okay? Into a pose. It looks really cool."