Overappreciated Historical Weapons: NUNCHUCKS are STUPID! 

I love nunchaku and practice with them a lot, but I know they're not top tier. It's an OK weapon tho, and they are pretty decent as an intimidation weapon. Stick doesn't scare no one, nunchucks - due to film and media - actually have a pretty good intimidation value (if you know how to use them). They're also fairly unpredictable, and I can personally attest to the fact that a hit to the head from a nunchaku hurts like hell. They ARE useless against armor, though, and they can be dangerous to an insufficiently skilled user. Honestly, I consider them B tier at best, although they are my favourite weapon. You should consider the Sanbon Nunchaku as well though (3 sticks, 2 chains), has some interesting applications for striking AROUND weapons, by hitting with the middle stick (although it's tricky to pull off. If you can't find any footage of a Sanbon Nunchaku, while I'm not GREAT with them, I'll send you a short demonstration. Oh yeah, they're also better, reach-wise, than a knife, while being less lethal (good for self defence if you don't want to go to jail for murder!). But I'm jabbering - I'll finish by saying that Nunchaku aren't an amazing weapon, but they ARE cool, fairly portable, intimidating, and can be difficult to predict. I'd love to hear your opinions on the Sansetsukon and other weapons in the Oriental Flail family! EDIT: They also suck defensively, as you said

I also uploaded a 15 second video of me swinging my old set of nunchaku around (they broke, they were kinda cheap) from a few months back. Lotta spins, but I do agree that those aren't phenomenal in an actual fight.

Best weapons against dinosaurs 😎

Hm, I'm looking forward to that peko!

Interesting reply, I liked it and it brings an interesting perspective so I am glad that you linked it shad thank you. I look forward to seeing your upcoming reply video I’m glad you went ahead and made it so I can hear your response/ extra thoughts

To who?

To the people watching

Yelling "Booyakasha" makes them twice as deadly and twice as awesome.

Asking for Water seems to increase wield too

Misspelled, ""Kowabunga!"

Yea verily.

I don't like celebrating my birthday, but I do try to congratulate my mom for her work.

A:TLA

Then the tree came back as *BEEG STICK* to put its offspring in their place.

As a tree hugger this kinda hurts me knowing tree died for an inefficient object. Rip 😞

You can carry the nunchuk in a small bag, you can't do that with the bat.

It's just simple physics. All the power goes back through the stick and through the chain/band and at the latest with the chain and band you lose the greatest power and serve as a wonderful damper. With a stick/baseball bat, the power goes through the stick into your hand and you are the damper thanks to your hand and arm. What loses more strength a loose ligament or chain links or an arm with muscles and bones and the movement working against them?

Deadliest Warrior is a show where bunch of assholes pretend to know historical combat. Anything they say, should be taken with a grain of salt or as a joke, because their themseves are a fucking joke. But yeah, nunchuks are shit.

The show is also biased and historically inaccurate as hell.......not to mention just one simple crack on the head with a fully extended chuk would have ben enough the didn’t have to do the spins.......

@Black Snapper Realistically both would bust out their Chicago Typewriters and try to find cover.

Where in the Philippines did you see this exactly? I'm from the PH and I've never seen that tool you described.

@@elleCX01 The simple answer, in the province. Better answer, Zambales province as local people were harvesting rice.

A lot of weapons came from farm tools. Okinawans probably had something similar and developed the nunchaku from there.

@@kami_1789 flails actually existed the whole medieval age, and were developed from a two-segmented quaterstaff.

This is true same kind was used in finland but it had 5 foot other part and other just 1 foot so you couldn't hit yourself but could get insane power

...And a straight up noob will hit themselves *right on the funny bone* 😫☠

@@A-Milkdromeda-Laniakea-Hominid better that than some other places... >_>

You do know that probably the best warrior of all time said the chained sickle is the worst of weapons to face 1 vs 1 right? If u facing someone who is good. IT was miyamoto musash himself that said it

@@Hug0Pro just because its dangerous to fight against doesn't make it a good weapon hit yourself with that thing one time and your out of comission

sometimes I think that weapon was invented by master to make novice hit themselves and learn to proper choose their weapons

😂😂 you should have been early with this one

Lol

The Scholar-General's channel has an idea of why flails (war-flails made with iron and iron chains) were actually decent weapons for horsemen on horseback that builds on Wushu Engineer's conclusions. When you have the added force of traveling on a horse, the rider wanted to limit the handshock they would receive back into their hands/arm. The reduced amount of force from choosing a flail over a mace would be more than offset by the added energy from attacking on top of a moving horse. So due to the "overkill" amount of force when attacking from horseback, it made sense to reduce the amount of force in exchange for reducing the chance of injuring your arm through handshock. A rigid weapon like a mace or a stick is also more likely to break or be knocked out off your hand when you're striking on horseback compared to a less rigid weapon like a flail. See links: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZLB08i0Tg6I.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L3MonegdQJ8.html

I've also heard that they're meant to counter armor. Because you can't cut full plate, swords don't work very well. So the heavy blunt force of a mace is preferable to batter the armor and get a full transfer of force. But then their opponents just started using shields to counter the heavy and slow striking maces. So they started using flails to wrap around the shields while still delivering comparable force, even if deflected at the chain. Of course, if you're going by which gives most force, then the mace makes it much easier to translate that mechanical advantage than having to maneuver a flail so that you can build up enough rotational momentum.

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I want to make something clear to you just in case you’ve never been in a real fight. There is no way in hell you’d ever hit anyone with a big stick. It’s too big an heavy. Someone would either move away or wait till you feel back and tackle your ass. Ain’t no one in the history of the world ever got hit by a big stick who knew it was coming. It’s big, it’s heavy and it’s clumsy. No one and I mean no one is going to stand there and allow you to swing a big heavy stick at them. Any anyone who thinks otherwise just has a man crush on Shadiversity because it ain’t true. I’ll make you deal. I’ll stand in front of your big stick if you’ll stand in front of my nunchucks and we’ll see which one of us is standing afterwards.

I wouldn't say they have no practical use. I don't particularly like them, and if we're talking self defense, I'm carrying a gun anyway, but if you break it down, they're a flail. And flails were used in professional warfare for years upon years.

@@ElessarEstel not exactly a flail either. As stated in the video, authentic fails are designed so they're too short to hit you when they bounce back.

says a guy who never got down

@@Proverbseight what does dancing have to do with this?

Well, that's fair

Do you have a name/link to find this interview? I'd love to see it.

They are actually a tool to beat rice straws. It's not a weapon. The martial art exist so farmers could use their told for self defence.

Right they exist too look cool

Hmm

2-3 minutes of content crammed into 20 minutes of video. The content may be good, but he mostly talks and tells you (over and over) what he's going to do, and takes forever to actually do it.

@@TK-zf7sx so? it's still educational.

@@penelopeskaggs5563 - If you like information delivered this way, watch it. I'm just expressing my opinion. The presenter and others can take it or leave it. But if YT pays him based on the number of views AND for how long they watch, there's an obvious reason for padding the video. Meh - I'll move on to someone who's more concise.

Ha

its pandemic time we all need hobbies

Yeah, cause I want to go into battle knowing the weapon I carry is either going to knock them out or me.

@@Krooggmaybe you’re just not skilled enough to not knock yourself out lol.

​@@Krooggshad was using the nunchucks completely wrong. I practice okinawa kobudu years. He chokes up so high and loses all power. Then his strikes are sloppy he's trying to follow like its a sword. Of course its going to bounce back and hit him. As for blocking he again proved that he doesn't know what hes talking about. You could block with chain but most blocks are about wrapping around and tangling while you dual wield.

@@joetrevino1607 don't forget Splinter killed the Shredder with nunchucks.

😂😂😂

Consider this too I've used them in a real encounter (defending myself) The dude ran away pretty fast

Yea man, I pulled some out on like 3 dudes that were bout to kick my ass outside of a club few years back. They said fuck that, and bounced

I was in Times Square and a guy pulled out a knife and the dude fled. I can’t say they are better but are easy to carry with and be concealed.

Honestly that would be an amazing series

Stick wins a lot more than people realize. All weapons have advantages over stick but its always been a solid choice. Just a matter of length.

@@Merilirem It's not about the size of the stick, it's about the motion of the user

Pretty good baseline. A stick is the most basic, rudimentary weapon you can use so anything worse than a stick is simply rubbish.

actually sticks are also historical weapons :D

You _can_ take out someone with anything. But it's better to have a proper weapon than a baguette, even if you are strong enough to kill someone with the baguette

@@marvalice3455 And that is why I use a spoon to finnish the job.

@@marvalice3455 leave a baguette out for like a week and you have a club xD

@@marvalice3455 have you ever wielded a stale baguette? Class A weapon in some countries.

That's the point. The weapon is for training hand-eye coordination, not actually for fighting with.

Not really. It does take a lot of stamina to use. But they are ver brilliant as a weapon of war actually. It just takes a lot of practice to use one.

See also: Rope dart, pois, chains and even whips. I love all of these weapons, and am tolerably good with most of them but you stand more chance of beating yourself up than anyone else.

Edit: WAS tolerably good with most of them. Just realised I've not picked up any of them in about 2 years. Give me a quarterstaff anyday

they are more of a "competition" class of weapon. you can get some pretty intense effect with those, but it requires some movement you wouldn't really do out of a ring (showing off with it is litterally PART of what you do with those) and you would never do some of the most common combination when acrually attacked. also, untill you slammed in sequence both head and crotch, you haven't been practicing enough, which is a flaw in on itself

It also probably helps hand-eye coordination and agility. Quick thinking and that sort of stuff

I was hugely surprised to know Shad's height, i always thought he had an avearge height

Well, my takeaway is "rigid shaft > bendy implement" ;-)

*whacky stick* (is better than bacon)

@@Space_Drifter0621 same

@@nathank2289 Yoda, is that you?

Because you have reach yes..But if I get in close enough to you that reach becomes a hinderance but if you can keep the distance, you have the advantage... Personally, id goad you in with a false strike, let you swing once and come in with a 6-strike combo (first strike to your fingers to break them, my goal is to take away your power then defeat you), so always keep the distance!

@@tedmoraites6402 Cool story bruh

@@tedmoraites6402 bruh. What?

Donatello would beat Mickey then

@@tedmoraites6402 a *gun* will do the trick in both short and long distances

I see another combat advantage of the Nunchaku. The correct way of holding the Nunchakus - both hands at the end of one of the sticks and the link behind your shoulder - allows you to attack from different angles (top-down, down-top, vertical, diagonally) and with different hands without telegraphing your move. This is something you cannot do the same way with a stick

I found another video from someone who actually knows how to use nunchaku. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GSZ-VBe65Jk.htmlsi=Brg9yVGPIhJgj0za It confirms my assumption that the presenter does not know how to use nunchuks and has never seriously practiced with it. Also from the way he moves I doubt that he has any serious martial arts background

Point 1 is baseless propaganda. Weapons were already forbidden by King Shō Shin of the Ryukyu kingdom in order to prevent insurrections BEFORE the invasion by Satsuma. And yes Satsuma did also implement a weapon ban...which was in line with basic Japanese law of the time as seen in the Sword Hunt of 1588. It wasn't just the Ryukyu, it was all of Japan. Also the presence of Japanese samurai on the island was quite low as the whole point off the invasion was to allow them to trade with China by pretending to be Ryukyuans. The Japanese presence became more common only much later when Japan annexed the kingdom during the 19th century. The story of the plucky Ryukyuans resisting against evil Japanese samurai with Karate and Nunchunks is a myth.

It's still useless anyway.

You are presenting your fantasies as facts. You aren't going to persuade anybody by doing that.

50% chance you get their wallet

Chance to end up with broken skull and knees

90 percent chance they get a 45 auto to the skull.

10% to successfully run away

RU-vid: sweetwind

if hitler had a big stick we would all be speaking german right now

Big stick polices

You're just jealous of his "big Stick" energy!

Yeah, but he should speak more softly as Theodore Roosevelt once said.

#BIGSTICKGANG

You mean Arnis

That's cool and all but why did the goblin turn on the stove?

yes WhY dId ThE gOblin TuRn On ThE sToVe?

Oh i didnt expect to see you here valid comment but I just don’t really expect to see youtubers i watch in comment sections of other videos

Actually if you hit through your opponent with a nunchuck you won’t get hit. If you stop as soon as the nunchuck hits your opponent it flies right back at you.

@@pirateofthepacific9687 Shad did went through and got hit anyway. What you describes isn't actually a thing in physics, the nunchaku will rebound as soon as it makes contact with a hard surface.

Even a danger to themselves

Ok but what about dragons!? Dragons are more dangerous.

@@Spiceodog I dunno, kinda hard to hit yourself with a dragon

@@101Mant well if it’s a smaller one and you grab it by the tail.... oh and the fire breath! You wield it like a flail with a flamethrower attached to the end

@@101Mant hold that thought, I’m dming dnd today and I know exactly what the orc leader is going to be wielding

I've heard that story multiple times. And although I like the idea, thinking more critically about it, it sounds like a load of crock. If you no longer have effective weapons, farming implements may win the battle, simply due to surprise or arrogance from the traditionally armed guards or soldiers at first. But after the initial shock and awe, those rebelling would either be dead or the rebellion at least cruelly put down so they could continue their work. Like most myths, there is some truth undoubtedly to it, but it is more fiction than fact.

@@tilasole3252 How could nunchucks be useful for farming?

@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 to remove the inedible bits from the rice. Thrashing or threshing I believe. Also what ended up being the nunchaku may have looked quite different in it's original form. That is if the story is to be believed. But you do have to thrash wheat and grains to remove the husks so it is plausible.

@Nathaniel Shrock The point of nunchucks is that they are more powerful than an unreinforced, unstudded stick (using the velocity for swings), while being more conspicuous than a reinforced studded staff.

​​@@nuh_uh210 Nice myth but is just that, a myth. A scythe is a farming tool, a fork is a farming tool, hoe is a farming tool, machete is a farming tool and the list goes on, unless they were prohibited from farming with any tool at all they had at least one or two of that list to farm rice properly and all of those are better weapons than two weights with a rope in between, damn, even a stick, just walk under the closest tree and get a fallen branch break it and is a more effective weapon than what this legend proposes. Also, machetes, scythes and several other kinds of bladed tools are easier to hide and more convincing than the nunchucks. Important to remember that nunchucks require quite a bit of practice to become effective and not be self harming than just a fallen branch that needs no training at all to be as effective as it can be when used by a mob of peasants.

Two guns put together by a chain and used as nunchucks

@@Space_Drifter0621 used as Gunchucks you mean

Lawn darts. If you actually looked up the debates before the banning of nunchucks was voted upon and then signed in, it is about children being inexperienced and hurting themselves. just like lawn darts. Nunchucks were not banned because they were a weapon. Nunchucks were banned because we sold weapons as toys to children and they got hurt. Edit: They shouldnt be banned, tbc. Parents should just be taught, before they become parents, that you must be experienced with an item before you hand it to a child unsupervised.

pretty sure it's a user safety thing

@@redmoon383 Yes, pretty much

Mike?

Mic lol

"mike" spoken like a true warrior.

Say Goodbye Caroline

@@nyblller9785 Goodbye Caroline

Cos so many wars were fought with staves

lol

Pure evil lol

how are you verified lmao

Wait

5 subs bruh

Without a doubt.

@@JackOBlades0801 "But his nunchucks are obviously homemade of dimensions usable only by an enormous gaijin, and therefore all conclusions made in this video are gaijin and toopids." (I'm joking please)

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Big True

It is... Acceptable xD

And probably lose

Man it sucks that Shads entire audience won’t think critically about his methods. By his logic whips and trebuchets are terrible because they can directly transfer bodily force. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5J7fd3KLFX4.html the purpose of a whip is to use the centrifugal force to multiply power. You can’t see that here because he is throwing his weight instead of taking advantage of the rope to increase momentum. He even suggests that’s a myth, it literally how satellites gain speed moving around planets a weight traveling across an arch can multiply acceleration. It’s a physical fact, I’m kinda shocked how he just said that ropes can’t make things move faster when anyone can spin a rock on a rope with just there wrist and make it move blindingly fast. It’s literally how whips work if you just throw a whip at someone it isn’t going to do anything if you flick your wrist right it will break the sound barrier. Our punches and kicks are so powerful because they move through the arch of our joints if we just had stick for arms without elbows we couldn’t do nearly as much damage.

Here's a copy and paste from my other reply: I love nunchaku! Even if they're not the most effective, I'd take them over bats or clubs or any weapon like that any day. (Not arming swords or anything of that sort obviously.) Before YOU DOWNVOTE THIS lol, I'm a third red in taekwondo. The one-thumb-grip would prevent your hand from getting hit from the weapon as often. It might hit weaker than a stick, but let's be real, if they have a helmet both are gonna not be that effective. Even if this was disproven, I'd rather be able to grapple and trap then hit someone so hard their brains fly out. It's still a KO. As for reach, same as said before. They can be less range, but it doesn't really matter if you disarm your opponent! Finally, for recoil strikes, use a slingshot hit and you won't get hit!!!

@@dorjedriftwood2731 Can you provide a video of someone using nunchucks effectively with a whip-like motion rather than the controlled straight-joint hit? I have never seen that done, except by teens who end up hitting themselves more often than not.

@@dorjedriftwood2731 "I’m kinda shocked how he just said that ropes can’t make things move faster when anyone can spin a rock on a rope with just there wrist and make it move blindingly fast." But it's not the rope that is making the rock move fast, it's its distance from the fulcrum. You could get the rock moving just as fast by putting it at the end of a big stick and if you tried to hit someone with it the rock wouldn't come hurtling back at you, unlike with it at the end of a rope.

I trained with then when I still practiced karate two years ago and would that with training better than unarmed, but without training worse

@@fanieljairtonjairton4234 I trained a little with them too! It was more for performance but I was fairly handy with them. If you know what you're doing, they're definitely viable but personally I prefer hand-to-hand, grappling or something with less of a Learning curve

@@argondrolf785 you can throw them to you enemy and watch them hit themselves.

My Maoi Thai Class had a nunchku class next door that I went to. I got pretty good but I would still prefer to just wrap a jacket around my arm and use that for defense and kicks, punches and the environment to attack because my Maoi Thai teacher showed us that you can literally just follow the path of the nunchku and catch them lol so yee

One of the games I used to play in VR was a boxing fitness game. Targets flew at you in time with the generic music. Long story short... Before I learned to sync the distance of the hits wirh the beats. I more than once hit my own head because I let the targets get too close before I started the swings. Luckily noone saw those bits.

Perfect statement

HA, good one

Wait...they’re not called that??? My whole life has been a lie

@@weswolever7477 mine too

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My son wasn't sold on Shad until he saw him Deadpool whipping broad swords and discrediting Thanos sword we both walked out of Endgame thinking was weird

Chadiversity

This is like superhero levels of Weapon Efficiency

The secret to RU-vid is establishing dominance early in the video. Lol. On a serious note I do enjoy watching those displays.

Flex? This only a small taste of his power.

Nunchucks were never used before the 20th century.So you must have had brain injuries too.

@@Russia-bullies it is called making a meme, plz don't be butthurt

@@Russia-bullies we are 21 years into it, so what doesn't add up? Even if it's just supposed to be a meme, the math checks out

@@CatSixty6 121 years. So yeah, I don't see the problem either.

@@randomguy- Man I totally forgot how centuries work, forgot we are already in the 21st

Bruce lee already did that.

We want Shad!

Or maybe even just parrying with a stick causing it to bounce back and cause harm to its wielder.

If Michael Angelo was unarmed that would be boring because they are all Martial arts Masters and are capable of fighting unarmed.

Does that mean that they become good with the weapon? Or does the weapon deal twice as much damage against them?

@@lorddragonskin3603 I'd say double the damage

You either die to your own nunchucks or live long enough to switch to literally anything else

I mean, if it hits you more than it hits your enemy, and you're your own enemy, who is getting hit the most?

@Kazuha Of Inazuma it would be Dwight's favorite weapon, because he is his own worst enemy. Unless Jim is his worst enemy. Unless…

Not to be confused with the ninja Mormons in Sherlock Holmes

We can't expect god to do all the work.

Might I introduce you to the movie, “Inspired Guns” it’s hilarious.

Definitely Best of the Worst.

When you want to play monk, but the DM can't fit an eastern style monastery into the setting.

Beware of Ben sign now posted on borders to the Shadlands...

I'm in awe of the size of that lad.

@@greatclubsandwich5612 If this doesn't actually happen I will be extremely upset.

@@viscountrainbows6452 he is a big boi

@@viscountrainbows6452 ABSOLUTE UNIT

Sometimes you have to be seriously dedicated to appreciating helicopters 🤷‍♂️🤣

Yeah, I don't really want to crush AND burn my own testicles

I am fairly confident i used those in Pathfinder Kingmaker lol

@@420StepsFromHell warframe makes useless weapons look good

@@noukan42 Yup, that`s exactly why I remember flaming nunchucks aswell :D

Gun-chucks

I remember somebody once hypothesized that Master Splinter assigned the Turtle's their weapons to contrast and complement their personalities: Leo was the leader so he got the lethal weapon that required serious thought before use, Donnie was very tech focused so he was given a simple bo staff, Raph was aggressive and hot-headed so he got a purely defensive weapon, and Mikey was a goof-off so he got the weapon that required the most focus and training. That said, in the original TMNT comics they didn't specialize in any specific weapons, they all used a variety of different tools and weapons depending on the situation. It wasn't until the cartoon series that they got their signature weapons and color-coding, to make them easier to tell apart on TV but mostly for merchandising reasons (why make it so parents only have to buy their kids one Turtle, when they can each be different and they have to buy four?)

Cannon Mikey is the most skilled martial artist of the 4 stated by splinter

Raph’s weapon choice is actually kind of ironic in that case. I think they were all given weapons based on aesthetic 🤷🏻‍♀️

Nunchucks work for the Ninja Turtles because they're fueled with pizza.

@@zavyg9948 That's the point. Leo's the leader, so he gets a weapon that can't be used rashly without consequences; Donnie's obsessed with tech, so his weapon is as simple as it gets; Raph is aggressive, so his weapon is almost purely defensive; Mikey is scatterbrained, so his weapon requires focus. But again, this is just that person's hypothesis.

Seems like three section staff takes the problem with nunchucks and doubles it.

And rocks. Bigass rocks.

And even more so: Pointy stick!

Rock on stick!

Pointy rock on stick

The most versatile weapon ever: stick = club Stick + rock = mace/hammer stick + sharp point = spear small stick + sharp point = arrow stick + rope = bow hollow stick = blowpipe big stick with counterweight = trebuchet

your comment is comedy gold

God damn. Hahaha sucks to be you desert man

Imagine whacking someone with a petrified cactus, though.

@@benthomason3307 tf2 Boston Basher

Its settled this person is now our leader we cant compete with this comedy and wisdom.

I saw a story about a man who broke out of prison using nunchucks, and I just had to wonder how many times he actually stroke anyone or if it was purely by doing flashy tricks and transfers while threatening the guards with it. I’m sure it was the latter.

Self testicle damage: 100

Ah yes, they are the goose of weapons

@@TheBrickMasterB tierzoo?

Sorry I stole your idea

Sad michelangelo noises;

Mikey uses two at a time and it occurred to me that I've never seen a person use them like that.

now go treat him pizza

@@craftpaint1644 Maxie from Soul Caliber...

Well, he's the worst turtle anyway...

As a Bruce Lee fan, it's awesome to see someone else know this little fact behind the scenes. If I remember, it was a biography type show where Bruce Lee said it himself and admitted he learned a lot from the film industry with weapons. That, and it gave him the funds to start teaching himself further and go to college.

Interesting, I didn't know this!

@@AverageGabriel I disagree, if you are very proficient using them like they're an extension of your hand, its potentially extremely deadly, but its not for everyone, certain people though its natural to them, there's a guy named Ken Hill who is sick, I'd never want to run into him with chucks in an alley. Solid hardwood also is extremely deadly, I'm using that here, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zsWrR8CdDq0.html

@@counterstrike89 What do you mean you disagree? Acrobattybun just mentioned a fact about Bruce Lee's life. And to counter your point: saying "this weapon is an extension of your hand" is an overplayed trope. Literally every single hard piece of material that you can use to hit people with, is an "extension" of your hand. As shad has shown: using a simple, pragmatic, easily acquired long wooden club, is far superior in every single practically objective way imaginable, save for raw intimidation tactics. If indeed a person is extremely skilled, like this Ken Hill fellow that you mention, then it's highly likely he would be EVEN more deadly with a simple wooden club. That, or to put it very simply: from a sheer combat-effectiveness standpoint, he has wasted his time learning how to expertly use an impractical weapon. Time he could have used to become an expert in a much more practical weapon. (Naturally people who pour years into expertise for martial arts weapons, or plain martial arts anyway, simply do it out of a hobby and/or because they may make money off of their expertise. Nobody really "needs" to be proficient with these things in a world with guns, from a self-defense point of view) Furthermore: you say you don't want to run into him if he's wielding nunchucks. Well, would you like to run into him if he's wielding a wooden club? The same principle applies. And lastly, if indeed Ken Hill were to attack me with nunchucks, then provided I had a wooden club myself, I believe I could effectively take him out before he could take me out. I say this as somebody who is completely unskilled in any type of weaponry. This is because wielding a large wooden stick-like object is incredibly easy. All you need is force, a good grip and a good stance. I have a reach advantage, and as shown in this vid, he will likely be able to generate less force with the nunchucks, thereby greatly increasing my chances to take him out first. Not that it's a competition. In any case, your counter-argument makes no sense from a practical point of view. Nobody is denying that nunchucks CAN be deadly, but there is no POINT to using them when a solid wooden club does the same trick better. And he'll DEFINITELY get hurt if he attempts to use the nunchucks in the same way as a person would use a club, hence why he will likely generate even LESS force because he has to compensate for it. Long story short: the nunchucks are dumb, big stick energy all the way.

@@RedFloyd469 well I think It Is harder to grab a Nunchuck than a stick in case your opponent tries to disarm you

Precisely, very well said.

@@Neon_White lol whips aren't weapons, genius, they are specifically designed to not cause great harm. Not only that, but the chain isn't designed in a way that would increase the speed in any significant way compared to a stick. Go back to school and take a physics class.

@@flyingtentacle7631 Right they are pain instruments and not the kind that incapacitates.

@@flyingtentacle7631 can I see some of your calculations?

@@flyingtentacle7631 do you really have to insult the guy? Cmon, he's being nice.

You will be praying he will be fighting with numchuks

"Go away, or I'll call the brute squad!"

retreat!

And he just brings a stick

Run away! Run awaaaayyy!

He got the shell, maybe thats why he doesnt care? It's preety much built in armor I think

Schmibbly, turtles have nerves on their shells so they can still feel with their shells

Sword > Stick > Dagger > Nunchuck

@@user-fc6dk4sz8e Aight I revoke my argument

Nunchaku are for choking someone from behind, thus one must be good to use it as have to get behind the person to end them.

The force doesn't transfer back to your arms with a flail, so years of doing it will be less likely to mess up your joints. Less effective, but more ergonomic.

they are quite practical, just another weapon with its feats and penalties.

Because only silly people try to swing it over their head and act like a mall ninja while trying to thresh grain.

You made me bleed my own blood ! Nelson muntz

😂

Well said.

HA

Best description of learning nunchaku ever.

not true. Kobudo, Okinawan martial art.

So glad he did though. 80s martial arts was cool as fuck. Back when reality didn’t matter 😂

It was probly good for the type of fighting style Bruce Lee had which was a mishmash of different stuff that worked for HIM not everyone else

Your name and avatar disgust me, and I approve. Just leave the Nunchaku to Majima. He'll make a game out of it.

Should have practiced stick

@@georgemeller4074 but hes probably still busy singing 24 hour cinderella

@@rui2166 SUNAO NI I LOVE YOU - Reminds me that I still have to go back and 100% Y0. I wonder if Fei Hu ever had problems with Nunchaku?

@@georgemeller4074 i wonder that too but im too busy watching videos at gandhara

It probably helps if your torso is made out of SHELL, too.

@@grumblycurmudgeon the body of a turtle itself is actually quite fragile, so yeah, damn lucky that he's a turtle

@Jason Berryman we are talking common pet shop Turtles who were mutated. We can't rely on species. In the comics, they are shown to take grievous injuries and heal from them like Donatello died 3 times in the Image comics in one story and still regrew his shell and healed from lost limbs and fell from the skyline.

@@KingRumar let’s just assume they’re red eared slider turtles

As a stoner, I can definitely say that being high would make the recoil pain worse

And thereby, nothing in that continent has changed in ten millennia

And this video isn't even 20 minutes ಠ_ಠ

Thought I was the only person thinking that. God, calm down and get to the point. It's good info but the problem is in the presentation.

@@charlesyoung8600 i strongly agree. The topic is very interesting but the guy itself is terrible at presenting it. The actual content of this Video could be cut to around 5 minutes

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This is Sir Ben, the Monster of Sydney!

give me twin tonfa over sir Ben any day of the week and I'd be more then happy I love the tonfa but I'd bet shad thinks they are bad as well but ohh well.

@@ShyamWolf eh I'll take Sir Ben in my corner over any melee weapon lol

@@LtColShingSides And yet with a tonfa i can block a hit and counter in one move and still be in a defensive form even when attacking all out. are tonfa meant to kill in one hit... nope not at all but can they... yes they can much like the nunchuck can if used right. And to shad please don't clam you can use a weapon when all you can do is Kata. that not combat ready training and you should know that your better then lying to people like this and you know that or you should.I like your videos and watch almost all of them but sometimes your wrong so please this time you are and many people have said so in the comments just own up to it and say this is all your opinion and in no way fact.

@@ShyamWolf I don't get why you're being so antagonistic on a light hearted video. Chill out man. I'm not confident in a key board warrior's ability to take on the bulk of someone Ben's size. Unless you're also his size, then maybe. Either way it's pretty pointless to put on airs like you're going to fight someone. No one is impressed.

I was looking for this comment

Ikr! :D

Just for your information, it's spelled "mic" (short for "microphone"), not "mike".

Mike: I'm in danger :D

same

What an interesting comment! Very cool.

About Circulating Objects,you might want to started with Jo, Bo staff and then Nunchuck. You'll get better reflex and likely to gain the ability to gain more momentum and release. And then again, you will now want to go Dart Rope or Meteor Hammer as they are far more effective

naaaaah kung fu doesn't have nunchucks its just new gen lame kung fu teachers that use them because they are "cool"

@@krkrbbr not only "nunchucks" but two and three section rods, 7 and 9 section chain whips, meteor hammers, monkey fists, and all manner of flexible weapons

@@krkrbbr Historically, the Chinese have used nunchucks for thousands of years across multiple martial arts (including 功夫); even if under different name. Two and three section rods originate from China. Additionally, kung fu teachers don't use them because they're cool. They use them for all of the reasons said above & more.

or they were going to be invaded, had jack crap for normal weapons, and someone was like, "alright, grab your oars, threshing sticks, trowels and shovels, we're going to learn how to fight before the enemy gets here" One dude actually shows up with a threshing stick and the guy drilling them has to get him to stop hurting himself and everyone around him

That is literally what happened. Tokugawa iewasu I think commissioned the great sword hunt that meant that the samurai essentially had a monopoly over the production and use of melee weapons, so farmers and other guys had to improvise using homemade stuff that were arguably not weapons to any suspicious samurai

I'm upset that lingerie wasn't on that weapon list

Yeah lol, IDK if your comment is supposed to be ironic or not, but that is literally what happened xD

That's actually 100% how they came about. They're improvised weapons made by peasants out of common farming tools. The Samurai class, or their Ryukyuan equivalent, wouldn't have been caught dead using such things. Sai are probably the only purpose made weapon in traditional Okinawan martial arts. They were used by local guards.

wdym underappreciated, stick is oldest human weapon and is still used to our day and if we count pointy sticks, it's literally the most common weapon in history

@@user-hf2uf8wb7k When you mention "pointy sticks" I'm suddenly thinking of the Monty Python sketch; self-defense against fruit. While a stick would be a long-standing weapon I'd rather use a tonfa because at least those can be held along your forearms or perpendicular to your arms

"Sticks are great" but according to this video a stick that has been broken in half and has been put back together with a piece of rope or chain is not so great.

@@user-hf2uf8wb7k The appreciation of the stick is much higher today than just 10 years ago, in part due to people like Shad. There's now a strong community of amateur historical research and experimental archeology into martial arts, with an increasing number of semi-professionals like Shad (professional RU-vidr, semi-professional historian), which seems to have been triggered by the project of rediscovering historical European martial arts, where the tradition has been broken and must be rediscovered from "dead" sources. I've been a great proponent of the stick for more than 30 years, myself. Even today, though, if you ask an average person to equip a fantasy warrior, you'll see mostly swords, followed by axes, maces, and bows. You'll see some needlessly complex pole-arms, and lances for mounted use, but the humble stick in its simplest form is unlikely to show up. A pointed stick, around the length of a man's height, is the most prolific weapon in human history and prehistory, and arguably the ultimate ancestor of almost all other weapons. It has always been appreciated by those who have used it, but that's not the same as getting the appreciation it deserves. Even today, even with newfound literacy about historical weapons, the stick is underappreciated. If I've made it seem that the underappreciation of the stick is a new thing, I must apologize. Already 2400 years ago, Socrates, the founder of Western philosophy, complained that the pointed stick was underappreciated, and that inferior weapons like the sword were getting all the attention (especially among the youth; complaining about the decadence of younger generations isn't a new thing, either). The even simpler non-pointed stick was ignored even by Socrates (of course relevant manuscripts may have been lost).

@Jordan Winders "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" -- Albert Einstein

"Now, run at me with your banana!"

Ni

@@carlbrown8966 Oh what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will in a comment section.

The current generation will have no clue what we are talking about and it hurts.

@@indetigersscifireview4360 “a scratch? Your arms off” “No it isn’t”