I was WRONG about the NUNCHAKU. . . or was I? - Reply to Milani Fitness 

When I read the title I thought "No way!" As a martial artists with over 30 years of experience, and a true fan of Nunchucks (well, at least for all those years before 24-yrs old), I can absolutely claim that they are the worse weapon I've ever trained with. Flashy? Yes. Fun? Oh yeah. But for self-defense or simply weapon-fighting, they're garbage. No matter who or what I have to face: human (empty-handed or armed), animal, zombies, dragons... I'd rather use a crowbar or a simple eskrima stick than these self-hurting thingy. Oh well, it was such a relieve to hear what Shad said in the beginning of the video ;)

My Goju instructor said it best. "There's a reason why no one gave a damn about the nunchucks until Bruce Lee came along. People don't learn to use the nunchucks because it's useful. They learn to use the nunchucks because Bruce Lee made it look cool!"

The pinnacle of internet entertainment. Two people convincing each other who's stick is better

"Erectile Stick-function" "It's just worse stick!" "A stick that had a stroke" "Mentally disabled stick" I'm wheezing Edit: "A stick that was dropped when it was a twig"

The fact that you wont find any historical examples of it being seriously used as a weapon in real combat really says enough about its usefulness as a weapon.

My wife just said, "You are watching another nunchucks video?" Yeah. Apparently I am.

I'm a white belt and asked my martial arts teacher what he thinks and he laughed and said "i would rather fight a person with a lamp than nunchuks"

I love the sheer anger he has when talking about all the insults he hurls at them relative to sticks, and how you have to ruin a perfectly good stick to make them.

Fun fact about the Kinder Surprise ban in the U.S.: Kinder Surprise eggs are not _specifically_ banned, they are merely a casualty of a general ban against non-edible items within food products.

"A pen has good penetration" Shad Later: "Analyzing the Effectiveness of a Pencil As a Weapon in John Wick"

What is a lance: A stick with a sharp stick at the end. What is a Rifle: A stick that shoots.

About the whole "experience needed to judge a thing" point a stand up line comes to mind, when a hackler told the comedian, that he doesn't have children, so he can't judge parenting. The response was: "Lady... I can't drive helicopters either. But if I see one crashed on a tree, I know somebody fucked up" 😂

PRO TIP: NEVER conceal anything behind your back, lower spine area. If you fall on that area, you could seriously damage your spine, if not paralyze yourself. It's also A bad place to try to reach for anything in an intense situation.

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." -Roosevelt "Get a big gurthy stick." -Shad

11:48 "NUNCHUCKS ARE JUST STICKS SUFFERING FROM ERECTILE STICK-FUNCTION" -Shadiversity 2021

Never seen any of your videos, but I love that you're incredibly quippy and sarcastic but with absolutely no hint of malice or being condescending. It's a very rare and subtle skill.

Another thing I just remembered, wearing the forearm armor used in KenDo you can easily and painlessly block a nunchacku strike, but a stick (shinai) will hurt and leave bruises.

'YOU HAD STICK! STICK VERY GOOD!" the Australian shouted. Everyone clapped. Stick *was* very good.

Main takeaway from this video: Stick is the underappreciated MVP

"Nunchucks are just mentally disabled sticks!" I have never something so hilariously correct before. And I love how he describes it in such a way that even a caveman could understand the concepts he's describing. Love it, keep up the good work. 👍

Double your stick and you almost have a staff. Arguably one of the simplest weapons to learn with double the reach and equal speed. A proper staff can give a sword a run for its money. Not as cool but very effective.

08:45 Did John Wick ever kill someone with Nunchucks? Nope Did John Wick ever kill someone with a Pencil? Yes Checkmate Nunchucks Edit: It has come to my attention that John Wick has now killed someone with nunchucks. Absolutely incredible, A pencil was inadequate to show just how deadly he is.

"Erectile stickfunction" "It does happen to 1 in 5 sticks." Shad bringing awareness to today's issues.

a nunchuck is objectively a better weapon when it is broken and becomes two sticks

Although it's not really efficient, you can even thrust with a stick. That's already a huge advantage.

"you have to damage a perfectly good stick to make nunchakus" lol

The first 30 seconds was one of the top 10 anime betrayals

fun fact: end of a whip moves faster only because whip diameter gets smaller towards the end, and because momentum has to conserved it speeds up. Force is similar, but speed increases so if there is any small knife-like tip on the end it's gonna do more damage to soft materials like flesh. Edit: sry, I wrote that comment before you explained it.

Best quote of the year, Shad: Stick very good, nunchaku is stick with erectile stickfunction.

Shad: **brings up rocks and slingshots** Me: "Why do I hear the deep baritone sounds of a large German man laughing?"

The background is making me imagine like some villagers walking down the road and they see some guy out in the distance looking at nothing and swinging a stick around yelling "stick is good!"

So imagine a world where a mighty hero had the worlds greatest weapon. Strong offensively and defensively, can be weilded by anyone and mastered by few, lethal, creative, and tactical. A legendary weapon... Then the stick broke in half and was "fixed" with yarn and ended the legacy of the hero by him hitting himself. A great story.

That first 30 seconds were the plot twist of the century

"anything is better than nothing" **breaks arm while trying to attack** "allow me to reconsider"

Nunchucks have one thing they do better than a wooden stick. If your opponent steals your nunchucks he won't be able to use em effectively against you.

I want to give respect to both of you. For you recognizing the optics of your channel "going after" a new content creator and having the respect to reach out to him beforehand and letting him see how you would approach. Such professionalism is not common. And for him to accept and be open to being criticked by someone with the presence you have. I am a new subscriber to Shadiversity and I am happy to see I didn't make a bad choice. Now for my thoughts, as someone who has fought with a pencil, with a stick, with a sword, and with chucks, (I am not referring to sparring)... I would rather have the chucks than the pencil, they do keep the opponent at bay due to their speed, but a quick step in and the pencil becomes more lethal very fast. Next a sword is better than the pencil and chucks, but give me a 6' staff and I will be much more confident in an altercation than with the other mentioned weapons. It just works best for me. I agree that the mystification of Asian martial arts has caused a very skewed public viewpoint of their effectiveness, but I am not disparaging as I used to train in Chi Lu Chuan Kung-Fu and see many benefits of the teachings. But they are not the magical, borderline superheros that some people seem to have a mental image of in their minds.

“They are actually far worse” shad is adamant in his opinion.

We've Been Tricked, We've Been Backstabbed and We've Been Quite Possibly, Bamboozled

I’ve never known anyone who carried nunchaku for defense or fighting. While they are fast moving, your timing of attack is limited to the time on its return forward. You can’t interrupt it’s motion to make an attack. Which gives an equally fast and adept fighter, the ability to time attacks and avoid it.

If it takes skill to use it, it's not a good weapon. The entire POINT of a weapon, is to remove skill from the equation as much as possible

“YOU HAD STICK. STICK VERY GOOD!!” -Shadiversity 2021

"Nun-chucks are intimidating"... You know what else is Intimidating? A 6 foot + Tall Australian charging at you wearing full brigandine armor flailing a stick

You were so close to the right terminology talking about centripetal force, you were looking for 'angular momentum'

Around 35:00 "Let's be adults here", proceeds to joke about stick sizes and laughs uncontrollably. You're a funny man, Shad. Keep up the good work.

Spear/Sword: "pointy end goes in the other guy" Axe: "swing with full force" Stick/Mace:"keep striking til he stops breathing" Nunchuck: "stop hitting yourself, please"

So this is basically Donatello whenever he's in an argument with Michealangelo

as a golf player, any breaking of my arm in a back swing, means massive loss of power and distance

Here's my idea. What if a very long stick expert fight against a nunchaks. Now the long stick master stays at a distance but still able to hit the nunchaku guy's lower feet. And he keeps sweeping the foot of the nunchaku guy (at the calves or lower) with his very long stick. Then from time to time, hits the nunchuks guy head when distracted. What would happen? Seem to that the long stick master has the upper hand!

Someone out there trying to make a stick into a nunchuck: Stick: "I am a stick"

"What I said about the nunchucks, that they were garbage? That was wrong. They're actually far worse." _He played us like a damn fiddle!_

Love this channel! Love the info, love the take, love the humor. Keep up the good work. I'm new to the channel but I'll be sticking around for a while. Bless you, ya good Mormon boy.

People who are willing to be proven wrong and open up further discussion are the absolute best. Nobody can learn anything if we all just refuse to allow people to criticize our views.

>People in 1950: "I bet we'll have flying cars by 2021...." >People in 2021: "You had stick! Stick very good!!"

“You wouldn’t watch an hour and a half long video about how nunchucks are stupid!” Me: Hold my quarterstaff

"If you are in a 1-on-1 fight you are a danger to more people" 😂😂😂

I just love your channel. the passion you have for everything you do here is otherworldly

Shad’s next video: History’s underappreciated weapons: the mighty stick!

You can't argue with a guy who has his own castle in garden

Shad! Been watching you since you were a tiny channel. You are one of my fave RU-vid humans. Love your work.. and your passion. :)

'Why would you ruin a perfectly good and effective stick to make nunchucks?' 😂😂😂

I thought this was going to be an apology video with the initial tone but the sheer confidence of this man saying "they're actually far worse" gave me whiplash. Never change, Shad, never change

Aesthetically, I love nunchucks, but even BRUCE LEE the “God of Nunchucks” himself said they aren’t a smart weapon to bring in a fight, he used them on screen BECAUSE they looked cool.

I subbed recently because I thought your analysis of longswords was very interesting. I really admire your ability to take apart the arguments logically and your expertise in logic. Your introduction in establishing goodwill with the audition and ensuring your words are interpreted correctly without committing an ad hominem fallacy. This is absolutely the correct way to engage in a debate and I wish there were more people like you with a similar understanding of logic.

Not gonna lie, when I hear "Nun-chucker" I'm not thinking about a guy using a nun-chuck, but about a trebuchet loaded with nuns... Father forgive me for I have sinned, and laughed at this concept.

I imagine Nunchuks will be a meme in Shadiversity, like machicolations. Every time Shad mentions something that's garbage, a picture of nunchuks will appear.

The nun chunks are a display peace for displays and performances same as kata

Did anyone else notice how none of the strikes he did on the bag with the nunchucks moved the bag even the slightest? There is demonstrably 0 energy being transfered to that bag

There are two good reasons to use nunchucks: 1st: To learn better coordination with direct backlash if you are not good enough 2nd: Train hot-headed students to make them learn how to control themselves and their temper

Sticks and stones may break their bones, but nunchucks only hurt me.

“YOU HAD STICK STICK IS GOOD DON’T HARM STICK” best sentence I’ve ever heared in my life

If you have to spend a ton of time practicing to learn to not hurt yourself with your weapon, you know you got a great one.

“StiCks are AMAZING!” “You had STICK! Stick very good!!!” This is why we love you Shad

The video shad showed about the robbery gone wrong was the most evidence I needed to agree. The homeowner ran out of the house with the nunchuks to defend his bike..they were taken away from him by a dude with a screwdriver (granted there were two robbers) then when the robber had the nunchuks the homeowner was easily able to overpower the robber with nothing in his hands by moving constantly forward and keeping his arms up. Pretty straightforward.

"For a fair comparison I gotta downgrade my stick" kind of summarizes this whole argument very well.

Honestly mate, this is how response videos should be done. He seems like a really good dude but your arguments are very fair and accurate and you're actually trying to engage in a discussion and not just being insulting lol Respect

I always carry nunchucks so if someone starts a fistfight with me i can give them the nunchucks so i can win

“I said they were garbage and I realize that I was wrong..... they are far worse “ I love Shad

1 hour 26 minutes... Oh boy we're in for one hell of a ride

Nunchaku are basically just like flails, not effective weapons, and lack of control of your weapon leaves you vulnerable, it's not a simple thing to use, and you're always at risk of hurting yourself.

Dude I had to come on the comments and just congratulate you on just the sheer savageness of that breakdown Stick indeed good😂

The best way to use nunchucks is to throw them at the enemy. If you hit the enemy, it´s a win. But maybe the enemy catches them, tries to use them against you and hurts himself in the process

How to promote stick by Shad: - Stick very good! Why would you harm stick?! Welp, I cannot argue with that

As a person that has limited training with a bo staff, pistol, TKD, a few boxing basics and is currently training nunchaku, it is confusing to see so many people act like broken bones and deep cuts don't stop fights? If my attacker is unarmed, I'd rather have some chucks than use my fists.

When i was a teenager, i lived in a somewhat troublesome area. Muggins were a daily occurrence. I had the bright idea of using a bunch of old *keys* attached to a medium length strap as a weapon for self defense and the way i used it functioned very similarly in form to how one would wield a nunchuk. So i would walk around with this chain of keys and nobody suspected my actual intentions. The police wouldn't stop me or take it away since, it was just a bunch if keys. The first time i needed them was when i was crossing a remote bridge, that was a common ground for muggins, because it was very easy to trap someone on the bridge cutting their escape. I was in the middle of the bridge when i see two men entering the bridge in front of me, and i look back and see another one coming from the other end. I thought to myself "right, let's do this". Long story short, those guys all ended up with bloody face and head. No matter how they tried they couldn't come near me without being hit by a rain of blows to the face and head. They eventually run away leaving trails of blood behind them. Their faces completely wrecked with deep slaches. To my surprise my "weapon" was surprisingly efficient at 1 vs multiple. After it was over, many of the keys were either broken or completely bent and twisted because of the force generated by the flailing.

"All weapons are basically stick, plus improvement" is the best line to describe weapons ever xD

Nunchucks still being drastically underrated... remove the chain and you get TWO STICKS

10:09 Now I want to see that tier list done

Shad being such a 12 year old for almost 90 minutes. LOVE it.

This framework you’ve made for protecting smaller RU-vidrs is really great and can’t be understated. This needs to become a standard. I really appreciate how you handled this.

"The spear is the father of all weapons. The stick is the grandfather of all weapons" -Chinese philosophy I half remembered watching this

This argument reminds me of the channel Martial Arts Journey. He's an Aikido Sensei who tried sparring thinking his Aikido training might not be perfect, but should be somewhat useful but quickly realized that when the pressure was on he reverted to just throwing punches and haymakers. His channel is now about his study and appreciation of other arts and improving his martial effectiveness. Or how any of Xu Xiaodong's fights are, fighting with 'Masters' of esoteric arts who often drop all form once they're rocked by a simple punch to the face

This is like the nicest RU-vid beef I’ve ever heard of

Shad is casually shattering the hope of Bruce Lee fans in the first 30 seconds

The "argument from authority"-fallacy has a snappy debunk from Steve Hofstetter: "You don't need to be a pilot to look at a helicopter in a tree and say 'dude fucked up!'"

Thank you. no seriously. Your skills in correct form of complaint backed up by facts (and still some niceness) is so effective i feel i need to complain less. Good man.

I have been using chucks for over 40 years. I can do all he flashy routines, even two sets at once just like Bruce. I have two beautiful Katana sitting on my fireplace hearth. What do I keep it my vehicle to have with me at all times? A short straight Boken, or in other words a stick.

This is the only channel that I can see a guy getting mad talking about sticks. 10/10

Reminder for those that keep a bat in your car: Do your lawyer a favor and keep other baseball gear in there too, like a ball and a glove.

Sticks and stones might break my bones... But my nunchucks will definitely hurt me!

seems like the overall defense of nunchucks is "its better than nothing" lol