I really appreciate a person who will own their mistakes "online"! your a cool dude, and I appreciate your instruction..... That hopefully I'll never need.
Sensei is very entertaining, informative, and skilled (not necessarily in that order :P ). Thanks for sharing, Sensei. I look forward to finding and watching more of your tonfa videos :)
Buenos días, excelente tutorial básico, bien explicado los ejercicios, en forma rápida y luego despacio, para poder ver como es la rutina y luego poder practicarla, las tima que no este en español para poder entender lo que dice el instructor Gracias.
Wow, 9 years ago,, Where does time fly.. Still trying to figure out why you were blocked on my Facebook. Found that many were now that I wanted as Friends . Can't figure,, ,God bless Joe
Great video, thanks for sharing your techniques with the world. I love tonfa but have very little formal training with them from long ago. Recently I made a pair from galvanized steel tubing used for fence posts, with a mig welder. They're pretty great, super lightweight, very strong, they whistle slightly and you can use them as big combat-cookie-cutters that notch a 2 inch wide whole up to 8 inches into the target (a truly brutal wound). In practice I have found them to be very strong but not completely indestructible, you could not just bash rocks with them all day but I think that's true of most materials. I have a video suggestion if you're still making this style of demo... how about a mix of tonfa and kama, one in each hand? I've found some really effective mixtures of hooking an opponent to drag them off balance and directly into a strike from the other weapon. The tonfa arm can provide nice defense while the kama arm can penetrate and fatally exploit key weak areas in armor like the underarm, crotch, underside of jaw, and back of knee. I made my own kamas too, they're quite a bit heavier than normal but have great durability and penetration from that at the expense of edge sharpness.
Hi Joe I wanted to ask you even if this demo is bad ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ElN3diaDoD0.html do you have any thoughts on this new tonfa model and or would you discourage its use I mean I guess one minus is the extra handle could make it easier to grab? thoughts please thank you.
Look up the kuai/guai. It is the chinese forerunner of the tonfa.chinese styles like pak mei,southern praying mantis teach the weapon. Look at the classic chinese film "challenge of the east" for a fun comparison! There are several videos that will show chinese forms with the weapon, both single and double pair.
@@KENPOJOE1 Good research,Yes they are in the Chinese country's but the origin is still Okinawan, look at Tonfa and Selection. Origin of Kabudo.I taught Okinawan Shorin-Ryu 10 years at the American Sholin Temple of the Northern Prayin Mantis and never seen any text of Tonfa originating in china always was sent Okinawan weapons as a reference.Peace Brother in the Arts.
@@mirecmusic due to Okinawa's close proximity to Fujian province in china where Pak Mei (white eyebrow), chow gar/chu gar southern mantis and fijian white crane kung fu all use the kuai/guai (crutch) as weapons. Check out not only forms with the weapon but also Jesse Encamp ( the Karate Nerd) visits china where he visits some of those studios and they demonstrate that weapon. Just because you couldn't find it in certain texts you looked at doesn't mean it didn't happen! Begood, Kenpojoe
