Nun Chucks & Martial Arts Weapons

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Calab Labarda of Tae Kwon Do Unlimited on behalf of expertvillage.com. Visit our website at tkdarizona.com. Today we’re going to talk about nun chucks. What I have with me here are old school modern nun-chucks. You have probably seen these a lot by Bruce Lee, he made them real popular. The history on these real quick…Ancient Korea, they weren’t allowed to have weapons; they were outlawed. These were actually used as a farming tool. Farmers used to use them and they would beat their grain into a nice smooth powder. Then after they started getting attacked, they decided, hey this will be a really good weapon for defending ourselves and using it for attacking. Now these are offensive weapon for attacking. They’re not too good for blocking. They got a few blocks, but they’re mostly ready for good aggressive weapon, flying in and doing hits. Now there are two types of nun-chucks, these are traditional nunchucks. What I have with me here are modern nun chucks. These are speed chucks. Even though they look little lighter and faster, they are the real thing, and they will do the same a lot quicker and you can do lot faster hits. The difference is you can see how the string is only about an inch thick and on these ones they are about 3-4 inches, depending on what size you use. These ones you do a lot faster strikes and spins. You can do a lot of blocks then, we come together and block. Those are your nun-chucks."