BobTD
03-13-2010, 08:30 PM
yes, I use them for free form. I picked them up on my own when my brother brought them home and got good with them pretty fast.
He showed me the basic rotation that involves rolling the string across the hand, and ended with you catching the opposite nunchuck in a figure eight motion. I practiced that the first time I figure it out for four hours, till my knuckles where bloody from the chain, so I now use rope instead of chain.
I have been practicing for one year now. I have been slacking recently a bit but it was part of a "what if" question I had to answer. Since people always made fun of how much I played video games, they would ask me what if I focused that amount of time on something else. So I put a few hundred hours into nunchucks. =P
Anyways, there are a lot of great people I have met that help me develop a form and learn new things. You are limited only by what you can comprehend sort of, learning a new flow path is kind of like opening doors in your mind. Its so easy once you have it, but at first near impossible to figure out.
Its great exercise and a lot of fun, but should be taken seriously as they are considered weapons in many places, and are even illegal in two US states. Also, they often cause damage to your surroundings and sometimes you yourself. I have had to plaster and repaint more then once. =P (but Im good at that to now)
I don't have any real vids of practice but here is something funny from when I was testing my laptop camera:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrBobTD?feature=mhw5#p/a/u/1/NTVEB6x9VRM
You cant even really see the chucks becasue the FPS is so slow, but each spin on each side wraps around your hand and exchanges position with the nunchuck you just held, allowing the flow and speed I tried to demonstrate... (that probably the worst I have hit myself, considering how loud it was and how much it hurt)
I will get a better vid up this week I hope. Showing some stuff I have been working on.
He showed me the basic rotation that involves rolling the string across the hand, and ended with you catching the opposite nunchuck in a figure eight motion. I practiced that the first time I figure it out for four hours, till my knuckles where bloody from the chain, so I now use rope instead of chain.
I have been practicing for one year now. I have been slacking recently a bit but it was part of a "what if" question I had to answer. Since people always made fun of how much I played video games, they would ask me what if I focused that amount of time on something else. So I put a few hundred hours into nunchucks. =P
Anyways, there are a lot of great people I have met that help me develop a form and learn new things. You are limited only by what you can comprehend sort of, learning a new flow path is kind of like opening doors in your mind. Its so easy once you have it, but at first near impossible to figure out.
Its great exercise and a lot of fun, but should be taken seriously as they are considered weapons in many places, and are even illegal in two US states. Also, they often cause damage to your surroundings and sometimes you yourself. I have had to plaster and repaint more then once. =P (but Im good at that to now)
I don't have any real vids of practice but here is something funny from when I was testing my laptop camera:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrBobTD?feature=mhw5#p/a/u/1/NTVEB6x9VRM
You cant even really see the chucks becasue the FPS is so slow, but each spin on each side wraps around your hand and exchanges position with the nunchuck you just held, allowing the flow and speed I tried to demonstrate... (that probably the worst I have hit myself, considering how loud it was and how much it hurt)
I will get a better vid up this week I hope. Showing some stuff I have been working on.