Nunchuck Master Rates 11 Nunchuck Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
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- Nunchuck expert and stuntwoman Thekla Hutyrova rates 11 nunchuck scenes in movies and television for realism, such as "Enter the Dragon" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Hutyrova has been practicing nunchucks, or nunchaku, for over 18 years and is a martial arts world champion.
Hutyrova discusses the accuracy of nunchuck scenes in "Enter the Dragon" (1973), starring Bruce Lee; "Kick-Ass 2" (2013); "Barry" (2019); and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990). She also comments on the portrayal of nunchuck showmanship in "Game of Death" (1978); "Legend of the Fist" (2010), starring Donnie Yen; and "Ip Man 4: The Finale" (2019). Hutyrova analyzes the practicality of nunchucks in "Warrior" (2020), with Andrew Koji; "Jumanji: The Next Level" (2019); "Black Dynamite" (2009), starring Michael Jai White; and "Lady Bloodfight" (2016).
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Nunchuck Master Rates 11 Nunchuck Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? - Фільми й анімація
Bruce Lee doesn’t show off for way too long. He just gives his opponents a longer chance to reconsider their life choices.
FACTS!
If you asked me, the bad guys were taking their time💁♀️ Bruce lee will only attack after you decide to choose death when going at him first😂
lol, well said
He never competed
@@richardonthemole8576 Anyone who has trained or as in my case had some sick 4.5hr workouts every single day for years because I was obsessed. Can tell you. Just by looking and his physic and movements. He was champion level... NO DOUBT!
Bruce Lee made nunchucks cool. He definitely deserves 10/10
He was a legend...I understand
Wym a legend he’s a god he played 2 tennis champions with nun chucks
@@andrewrusso6371
That's modern CGI from a commercial. Doesn't take much research to find out, because every time it's posted people mention it. But in addition to being the first to popularize nunchaku, he's also got the most legitimate martial skills in the video.
Bruce Lee helped popularise martial arts and one of things he introduced was nunchucks
IP man trained him he’s god tier and every MMA fighter looks up to him
She does bring up a pretty interesting point where nunchucks in media are usually depicted way more in presentation and showing off than *actual* fighting, moreso than most other weapons.
That's because it's hard to fake hitting people with nunchucks and not hurt them. Another thing to take into consideration when people claim they are ineffective.
@@MichaelBuieFilms rubber or foam props?
@@Dmvgold1995 I don't use Rubber or foam. Only wood or aluminum. But even a rubber prop would hurt from the velocity, and foam would move and look fake or break during impacts. Lots of innovative camera angles would be necessary to truly pull it off.
Really look at chinese sword fights. The people are no where near the sword swing in MOST films. That stuff is hard to fake, even with fight angles photography.
@@MichaelBuieFilms To be fair its not that they are ineffective, no-one would have ever used them if that was true. They just aren't as effective or easy to use as more conventional weapons and can, more so than most, be a danger to the user if not handled properly. The whole flail aspect also does mean that yeah, there's really no way to "pull your punch" with one without making it quite visually obvious that you are indeed pulling your strike, which kind of defeats the point of trying to make it look real.
@@accywacky2699 we train 17 nunchuck moves (spins+strike/s) to our yellow belts. It's a matter of practice.
We teach single and double nunchucku forms (taolu/kata) to any level who wants to learn.
So the weapon can be learned effectively.
Faking a fight with them is the difficult thing to do. And I take issue with people who characterize them as ineffective.
I have a friend who is an actual black belt martial arts sensei, and I showed him the 2012 version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and he was blown away by the accuracy with the fighting techniques displayed. He also said that the fact that Michelangelo was given the Nunchucks for a very good reason, as they are by far the most difficult weapon to master. Splinter gave Michelangelo the Nunchucks in order to get him focussed, since he's so zany and his mind is all over the place.
I've never thought of that, that's a really cool theory behind it. In a sense then, Donatello has the most "basic" weapon because he's the most intelligent of the four perhaps.
Black belt in karate is just a start not the end of path.
@@streetfightingman4240 seen a video where a fan was breaking the turtles down he said Mikey got nunchucks because he’s so zany so he helps him stay focused Donny got the staff because of his intelligence and has to train with his ability adapt with one of the most standard weapon Raph got the Sigh because of his anger and had to train with a defensive weapon to turn great defense to offense and of course Leo his almost like Raph but little opposite with him being the Leader he had to learn and train to push his limits to make decisions that could fall heavily on the turtles even taking someone’s life
If Splinter had given him the three sectional staff he'd have been super focused
If he'd had given him the chain whip, he'd have been super duper focused
That's funny, I guess I can relate to MichaelAngelo. Nunchucks are great for adhd. After starting martial arts and training with my nunchucks on my own. Have never hit myself, and always know where the nunchucks will be with every motion.
I honestly think ALOT of ppl picked up Nunchucks because of the Great Bruce Lee, so it's Extremely hard to critique him based on that alone.
Write a cogent sentence.
you said it!
don’t forget michaelangelo
@@crashcrashcr4sh You're Totally Right 🧡🐢
@@crashcrashcr4sh ...your right but in the cartoon Mike barely used them if they were not robots. All the kids back in the 80s bought them cause of the Ninja Mania hype we had!
The Bruce Lee Nunchuck scene in Enter The Dragon is really iconic. One of the most important and recognizable scenes of all time in all of cinema, not just action or martial arts movies.
Slow your roll lol geezus
What's commendable about that scene is, that his opponent is his teacher of the nunchucks and a student of his JKD.
my personal favorite scene was when he dueled the guy in the yard and he was so fast they couldn't catch his movement on film. one minute he's standing like this, 1 screen later he's standing like that, with dude falling back holding his face. whyyyyyyyy tf after Bruce doing that ONCE to you would you wanna try again! 😂😂😂 Bruce man... just too fast and bad@ss. Rest in peace noble warrior to the stars ❤
It is iconic.
But it is iconic in exactly those realms. And not really any other.
Most important.. how?
Awesome review. I also competed with nunchaku. She was at COMPETE. She won the open division. I won traditional form. She’s a great competitor. Nice to see she is doing well.
Bruce Lee is the reason people even knew what nunchucks were and the reason every one and their mama wanted some. Also, the reason people wanted to take martial arts classes.
Cuz he was in a movie that went global. He was no master or fighter
@@user-oi1iq6tt4jWhat makes one a master?
@@Hadoken. 😆 not Bruce Lee the actor and rich boy
@@user-oi1iq6tt4jBruce Lee the man who created Jeet Kune Do and the man who inspired the creation of MMA and UFC something isn't adding up with what you said
@@alexmason2659 weak bs jeet kun do. Like weak bs wing chung...Bruce Lee was no Master nor high martial art wing chung practitioner, he was an actor for his life and well off rich boy who had maids n chauffeurs, he was a cha cha champ, his dad was singing superstar n actor, he only studied weak chun for a couple or so yrs...he most likely died from the physical exertion of Kung fu n the kung fu movies...
If only Bruce Lee could see what an impact he has made in todays world
Nice profile image!!
...and how revered he is!
Bruce Lee was the man n if I recall correctly he stated that they were not practical for fighting but he mastered them bc they were part of the the arsenal. They do look cool as all outdoors...
@@victoralomar104 I doubt there could be any other weapon that would be more practical for use with Bruce Lee's style, and philosophy than a pair of Nunchaku, they represent fluidity and freedom of movement better than any other pre gunpowder weapon, but like all of us, they hide a wild uncontrollable nature that through dedication, bumps, bruises, and self control can be tamed and show their true beauty.
@@eight08hitman63 Bruce Lee's philosophy was REGURGITATING what he read from the book of 5 rings and Art of War.
I don’t know, man - Bruce Lee’s an instant 10/10 on the chucks. It’s not even a question. He brought them into the popular consciousness and I still think he looks the coolest wielding them.
I love the one of him playing ping-pong with them, even though it's not real.
And watching him play ping pong....too good
Bruce Lee looked cool no matter what he did
@@vinnieg6161 Haha, too true good sir!!! 😎👍👏👏👏👏🙌
Its not about who made them popular or who looks the coolest its about realism
That sneak attack from under the armpit is seriously being underrated. Extremely underrated
Michelangelo: the actor did it in full costume. (Limited sight and movement)
I think they deserve more credit.
Facts
She just wanted to see him fight which he didn't because all he was doing was providing a distraction in that scene. Have to give him 10/10 for flair though but a 0/10 for no fighting.
@@robertmickelberg3720
Raph and Don are the only ones to use their weapons in the movie and that's a stretch.
"A fellow 'chucker, eh?" My favorite "put my brain on hold" movie.
What Costume?
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So the scene in warrior is actually taking place in a large scale gang war fight between the Irish mob and the Chinese mafia so it's much more plausible him fighting from man to man and not taking them all on at once also it is an awesome show highly recommend it but the Bruce Lee scene is just so iconic
Its make no sense at all, he will be mobbed in no time, coz gangs not a bunch of duelists with strict sense of honor.
@MKirisame I mean that's fair but I still think it plausible to an extent
I love her reaction and ratings for these but i feel like she's being generous with some of them because she's nice lol
I was waiting for the gopher-chucks clip from Kung Pao Enter the fist.
OMG Yes!!! lol
Same. That I think was what made us all fall in love with that damn movie.
Well, the ones of us who didn't find Tiger and Crane Fist or the overall magic of Jimmy Wang Yu until later in life (which I'm).
10/10 for realism.
Kung Pou was the best worst movie
That reminded me of hanging out with a friend back in the mid 90s, who had a VHS recorder that could slowmo frame by frame (which was a miracle in itself). So one day, we went on to learn that whole Bruce Lee closeup sequence, from the beginning of this video. That‘s how you had to keep busy, without having internet.
there was internet in the mid 90s.
@@Veckler yeah it was, i grew up poor and i was on aol in the mid 90s. so were most of my poor friends.
In response to the comment about Donnie Yen if he had been swarmed, that would be fairly unusual. Even if surrounded, it’s rare to be attacked by more than 5 people at a time due to being in each others way. This scene was perfect. I was jumped by 4 people and I never had more than 2 attacks coming at me at a time.
How do you casually say something like "I was jumped by 4 people" like it was just another day?
One of the best commentaries in the series. Thekla keeps it real and her ratings reflect that.
The Black Dynamite flinching part was intentional. The whole movie is a blaxploitation comedy masterpiece and the fluttering eyes is alluding to how the actors cast may be very unskilled in the real life use of weapons. Michael Jai White is pretending to be afraid of the weapon he is wielding for this comedic effect. He is acting as an actor in one of those films.
Interesting!
My reaction exactly. I'm also a little disappointed that she didn't seem to know who he is.
This.
"Sarcastically, I'm charge."
The absence of "Ghost World" Doug scene is a major fail and a missed opportunity.
Can't believe they didn't include the gopherchuck scene from the greatest martial arts movie ever made, Kung Pow.
It'd be funny to see a martial artist watch the scene where he punches a hole through the guy's abdomen
I watched the whole thing waiting for "I need gopherchucks!" only to be disappointed. :(
@@keenanlarsen1639 a perfect plug. Not even possible if you think about it
Bruce's skills are unmatched to this day. Perfection!
way too true
bruce lee's the unmatched goat
lol, what a story - not any recorded real fights and at the end he abandoned Wing Chun, coz its just useless.
@@MKirisame Keep telling yourself that.
Love that you reviewed Warrior. That's a show Bruce Lee was working on before he passed and his daughter, Shannon Lee, finished it for him. Kinda feel he did better than a 7 / 10 though, but hey you're the expert.
Yeah I'm glad the show is getting more recognition. The character Ah Sahm rarely goes in a fight using a weapon but he uses them really well when he finds himself with one. Plus the actor said he's never used nunchucks before this show and had to train for 6 months prior. I think he did great. I thought it looked cool. haha
The Warrior was ripped off when David Carradine starred in KUNG FU . Bruce Lee started what became the movie Game Of Death .
I love that Michaelangelo used the fact that he was a turtle and flat-out drummed the chucks against his back in a way that would have been really painful for a human. I mean, probably not safe for a real turtle shell either but we can assume some artistic liberty with "mutant" makes it okay for him to do.
No one can rate Bruce Lee..he did things 20-30 yrs ahead of his time..he was a master of both martial arts and philosophy
i don't know, i'd argue he continues to be ahead of his time in many ways, even to this day
Exactly 10/10 or nothing
Exactly how can you rate Bruce Lee? He does things that you can't see unless you use slow motion... just another level even for a current master.
❤ totally agree!
who is this person?
Bruce Lee didn't really even care for the nunchucku. He learned it though because it did have a nice flare for movies and was taught by Master Fumio Demura's wife. One thing I give the TMNT part is that foam suit wasn't the easiest thing to maneuver for those guys, which I believe all came from Ernie Ryes Sr.'s school. Yet, they all performed pretty damn well in them, form me I give them credit and it's hard to rate practicality with a movie about giant turtles. Black Dynamite with Michael Jai White...he's very knowledgeable but the movie was massive satire so not sure you can take practicality from that. I can see why it was difficult for her to figure all of it in.
I thought it was Dan Inosanto whom first introduced the nunchaku to Bruce Lee.
@@speddyg I believe Dan introduced Bruce to Fumio. Dan showed Bruce more Kali than he did anything else.
Bruce Lee loved nunchucks and was taught by one of his top students Dan Inosanto who you can watch on UA-cam.
@@speddyg He was one person who taught him the weapon and he loved nunchucks.
What was Bruce Lee's favorite weapon?
"Hmm, this works on grain. I wonder what it'll do to someone face."
That was one upset farmer, for sure.
*4:11** What people mean by "Are nunchuks real?", I would guess, is: "Are they an efficient weapon?" And frankly, how would this lady know if all she does is spin them in the air (which again is perfectly fine, but that on its own doesn't make her expert at using nunchuks as an offencive weapon)?*
*It is a very legitimate question people ask.*
Guys, read the video title, it clearly says "...How Real Is It?", she wasn't wrong at all about Bruce Lee, you have to admit the "movie" factor played quite a role when it came to Bruce Lee (just see how much impact he had on all martial artists or just the general public), that's mostly due to his great acting performance (ofc his fighting skills are not a question at all) but on the other hand, movies from his time were alot more about the "wow" factor rather the realistic aspects.
So ofc she's right, it's unrealistic and a little unpractical to do that with nunchucks, you could argue that there's the intimidation factor, but once again, I think in a real fight, your opponent would not wait for you to do your "taunt".
Even Bruce himself said in an interview that a lot of the things he did on screen aren't what he'd do in real life, he said the movies don't want to see him stomp on someone's feet, kick them in the groin and knock them out, they want to see the more flashy moves
Also remember that the whole "showing off" thing is in itself a form of "attack". You are not "physically" hitting your opponent but attacking them psychologically. If I were to somehow find myself wanting to attack someone and someone doing that "showing off" with nunchucks like that... I probably would not want to engage them so much anymore.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” - Sun Tzu
Edit: You also find this "behavior" in nature. Bears will jump up and stand on their back legs to visually increase their size, gorillas beat their chest/do fake "charges". The list goes on and on and most animals have some kind of "roar" they do to deter an opponent and we humans are no different... How many people have deployed "verbal judo" to subdue a would be "attacker"....
It is a VERY legit "attack" :)
Also, in real life a combatant would not want to use nunchucks, as they usually would have access to a more effective weapon. For example, a stick.
Ya, If I were to actually fight with them (pretend I won't knock MYSELF out with them...) I would keep them in a "cocked" position or have them stationary. If you were to fight with fists, you would not wildly swing them around. Boxers don't for sure. They might throw their combos but each punch is more or less "calculated". If your weapon is in motion it cannot "react" to anything.... weather it be defensive block or a strike to a open defense in opponent. If it's in motion "showing off" and a hole opens up.... your busy "showing off" rather than taking advantage of that opening.
If there was distance between me and opponent.... then give them a "show".
They may or may not "wait" but what's actually intended to be happening there is not a taunt, but the way they are actually meant to be used , so that the opponent doesn't actually know when or where the strike will come from. Most typically won't just rush in hoping to avoid being hit, but if they were to just rush in and attack you'd likely be screwed
When Thekla says "interacting with someone", all I hear "is beating the snot out of someone..." :) Loved the analysis. Informative and entertaining. Thank you !
The routine at the end of the movie "Sidekicks" should definitely be on this. It's not a fight, it's just a kata in a tournament. But it's so freaking badass that I'm shocked it's not on here.
Agree amazing scene
Great presentation from Thekla... made it lots of fun & loved her somewhat "matter of fact" view on weapons use... something like a slam dunk contest.
One of my favorite demonstrations in movies of nunchucks is
"Sidekicks" with Johnathan brandis. Even though he didn't do the demonstration, the guy who did was out of this world.
I love the scene when he hits himself in the back of the head and also when he hits himself in the groin. Lol love that movie.
"Chuck Norris' Karate Kid" is still one of my favorite martial arts films. Aged surprisingly well, and full agreement that the demonstration for the competition was amazing.
I was so expecting to see this scene on here!
Was waiting for this scene the whole time. Disappointed they didn't do it.
The one I’ve been waiting for!! Practice Nunchucks in my spare time. “I can’t rate Bruce Lee, 10!” Love it
Hands down the MOST impressive display of someone using nunchucks and it not being a rehearsed action scene, but being used in RL and showing precision, the video with Bruce Lee playing Ping-Pong with Nunchucks is absolutely amazing.
Also, seriously think that getting hit anywhere on the head/face with a REAL strike from a nunchaku is all it would take to make an attacker to not want to continue trying to assault/kill you. I don't care who you are, or how tough you believe or think that you are, if you get it in the ear with these, you're done.
The chances that you can break someone's cheek, orbital bone, or nose is VERY high.
Buuuuuut, the thing is that you need to actually be trained how to use them, otherwise you will most likely end up just hitting yourself in the back of the head, or the ear, or face in general, lol.
Best movie scene though, IMO, that Nunchuck scene in that movie "Sidekicks".
The person wearing that white padded ninja suit...thing, yea, that scene is still just as cool if not COOLER today than when I saw it when I was like 13 or so, lol.
The ping pong video is fake. It was for a Nokia advert many years ago.
Thank you for doing this!!!
RIP Bruce lee still a legend and the reason I fell in love with martial arts!
Bruce Lee's opponent in Game of Death 13:45 is Master Dan Inosanto, the one who introduced and taught Bruce about nonchucks 🙂
And arnis/kali sticks🇵🇭
A person that knows their stuff
Yep that's true.
Absolutely true facts.
Actually Hanshi Yamashita taught Bruce Lee the Nunchuku..
The Game of Death clip with Bruce Lee in his yellow suit, the guy he is fighting is Dan Inosanto, Bruce Lee's first student. He is now the Grandmaster of Bruce Lee's Martial Arts school. Shannon Lee is the owner though and she handles the business side of things.
Great job on the video thanks
Bruce Lee wasn't showing off. That's the art of fighting without fighting. 10/10
Yeah but when the guy tried to intimidate him by breaking a board in Enter the Dragon, he said "Boards don't hit back." You could say the same of standing there swinging nunchucks around. "Air doesn't hit back." It's showing off plain and simple but its a movie of course they show off.
@@MakerInMotion even if this video was about breaking boards, I would still rate Bruce Lee 10/10
@@MakerInMotion Lets be honest here. Anyone would be more intimidated by bruce lee swinging nunchucks with precision and speed. Compared to someone breaking a board.
@@MakerInMotion i think it's depend on who is trying to intimidate and who is the target.. if bruce lee is the target,kicking a boards 100% not working..
@@MakerInMotion True, but I think to a broader extent it shows he can showcase his skills and strength without damaging peoples property.
Shows a sense of control and respect.
The Shinai(bamboo swords) she is talking about isn't made from layered bamboo. It's an individual bamboo stalk split into four slats and then cut and shaped to fit together in form. Its extremely sturdy and she's right that a nunchaku would not be able to snap it in half.
Yeah, they're definitely sturdy (experience from being hit by them lol)
@@NicholasWiewiora the sound of smack is always satisfying.
Yeah, in Japan we used those bamboo swords for practice.
She really doesn’t seem to know much about martial arts in general, and zero about fighting. I’m thinking she’s a purely forms artist.
Notice how her nunchucks are worn at the hands but not on the striking surfaces.
@@JohnOhkumaThiel Yeah Nunchucks look cool but they are stupid impractical as any form of weapon.
Those surprise head bonks when practicing are probably a rite of passage haha you can tell she's so humble in part from having experienced getting those accidental hits in amid all the other work she puts into her practice 🤣😭
This video needs to be redone now that John Wick 4 came out.
That movie had the most realistic use of nunchuck I've ever seen
1:50 that historical description of what a nunchuck was originally used for (smacking grain and wheat) was what I was also originally taught in school, but, thats actually false, The nunchuck (from Okinawa) was used to pull field horses by their nose rings.
You slid the nuchuck (which had rope to attach them not chain) through said nose ring, grabbed both handles, and pull said horse, who probably was tugging some kind of farm plow behind it.
Thank you Miss Hutyrova, for probably the best summary of the efficacy on nunchaku I've seen to date. Like martial arts in general, you have to be practiced to use it effectively. My respect.
I agree, not going to help you in MMA but they are fun.
Thank YOU for spelling it correctly.
@@deltalima6703 Not going to help you in any fight. Possibly the worst, most useless, weapon ever invented. Being a master of the nunchuck is like having a degree in theology - utterly pointless.
@@johnnystrek5403 Do you mean a shinai?
Oh, deleted already? XD
For the record, the comment this replied to tried to draw into question the expertise presented in the video because she didn't know the name of "a Kendo".
Thank you so much for your commentary. I really appreciate your candor in sharing what you've learned from your profession. You give me a real feeling of what this art is like. I have been playing with chain and ball, and have experienced enough to appreciate your wisdom. The reflex closing of the eyes when you don't know where the business end is, the attention to hand positiining and practice, your way of saying how many times you've been it in the face, lol.
Just thank you so much. You have a grateful new subscriber, even if I don't practice the nunchucks it's really wonderful to see them in your hands.
Thanks
I've seen a lot of nunchuck masters vid clips but no one looks as cool as he does. I don't know why exactly, but he just gives me goosebumps.
I enjoyed her critique of all the different scenes, but her voice kept me wanting to hear her say, "and one time...at band camp..." lol Good video!
I'd also recommend Scott Adkins in Extreme Challenge, Shawn Yue in Dragon Tiger Gate, and Hayato Ryuzaki in Heroes of the East.
Thekla is my weapons instructor of about 5 years it was really cool for me to see her on this channel. Congrats Ms Hutyrova :)
Because of Bruce I learn nunchuck when I was a kid. Bruce deserves 10/10.
Thekla is so cute and great personality in doing this review, would listen to her all day long... great bit and I am glad u included Warrior, just finished watching Season 1!
Bruce Lee 10/10 for all the nunchucks moments in his movies
Trained nunchuck for 20 years traditionally…spot on ..more popular in movies but no one understands what it’s like to be hit by a set of them real nunchucks will put an end to bad confrontation quickly ..this young lady did a great 👍 job spot on
they especially hurt if you hit yourself in the ahhums!
Nunchucks are blunt weapons, a ridiculously good category of weapons when hitting soft targets (like living beings made out of flesh).
Even an idiot would understand their effectiveness, even though I wouldn't say this woman is spot on on them.
She honestly sounds like someone who learned martial artists for show purposes only.
I've been hit by them, didn't even feel it, looked up from the guy I was fighting and noticed that the guy who was hitting me was using them, he quickly switched to a knife when he also noticed they had no effect, the knife on the other hand worked just fine.
@@John_Smith_ I think you have it backwards. If you were fighting a soft, unarmored target, you would almost always want a sharp weapon over a blunt one. Think about it, would you rather be stabbed with a knife or hit with a stick?
Blunt weapons were historically used for two reasons: a) you didnt have a sharp weapon, or b) your opponent was wearing armor tougher than your sharp weapon could pierce effectively.
Plus, nunchucks are among the least effective of blunt weapons. A plain long sturdy stick would be preferable to nunchucks for many reasons, for example greater reach, manouverability and general ease of use.
Though nunchucks are of course better than no weapon at all.
@@John_Smith_ Bro you are so hurt by this lmao.
The best demo of nanchaku was in the movie "Sidekicks" when the main character is portrayed as a ninja. I can't tell if they fast forwarded it to make it look faster, but the demo (basically the entire scene since it's at a competition) was awesome.
Expert?
The problem I have with people talking about the effectiveness of nunchucks is them talkingn about bounce-back. If you are hitting with them correctly... which IS with the last inch or so of the stick, it has high velocity and force, and it doesn't bounce back. And you absolutely can catch someone with the chain. If you are already wrapping, they are behind the curve trying to escape that. I fight Praying Mantis, and nearly every block I partially capture with the Mantis Hook. Capturing punches is entirely plausible.
Michael Jai White's eye fluttering was done explicitly for the Black exploitation comical homage. He clearly is far better with those than what he displayed in Black Dynamite. Love that movie; it's hilarious.
absolutely!!
"Sarcastically, I'm in charge."
Ha ha… I threw that, before I walked in the room. 😎🧨
Michael Jai White is a 5th degree black belt and shotokan, second degree in hapkido and he's well versed than other martial arts. It's kind of insulting that they would have her on here critiquing a master who probably has 30 more years of experience than she does.
@@calvinhoward2277 she didn't know the guy, in fact his acting was so good that even she fell for it. She is not versed in what makes this Blaxploitation-sploitation movie so great
When she was wondering about the effectiveness of hitting someone in the head with nunchaku? I have swung a pair of 14" cocobolo wood nunchaku, broken concrete blocks with them- and I can guarantee you that you are talking about skull fractures, unconsciousness, crushed skulls, and enough maxillofacial reconstructive surgery to last for years...
I loved the fact that behind of Bruce lee's nunchuck fighting style is from tabok toyok from the FMA which was introduced to him by Dam Inosanto.
Which left me shocked. All those golden years of watching him use the chucks and thought of it as some kind of kung fu.. But that all changed when I did my research on it to see if it were true.
I remember growing up I've always been obsessed with martial arts and people always thought nunchucks were illegal everywhere
These videos are always so interesting! The range of experts you find is fascinating. Can't wait for the next :)
This person barely knows how to hold the nunchaku other then for show... Not sure I would consider that an expert...
This lady is hardly a nunchuck expert. She admitted she has no experience using them realistically
Sifu Bruce Lee mostly liked Nunchaku for screen performance, but if you notice he is faster with Filipino Escrima sticks. Most modern JKD practitioners use Sticks, swords , and knives also.
Well, it is based for street fighting [shrug]
Honestly, the Nunchaku are the least effective fighting weapon ever. A normal stick is far more effective and in every way a better offensive and defensive weapon. The best thing you can say about Nunchaku are that they are usually better than no weapon at all.
I like that she pointed out what we should hold towards the chain. My couch taught me that the first day and it felt wwaaay more controlled.
She's great -- engaging and she teaches quite a bit. Though I've watched a lot of nunchuck scenes in movies, I don't have anything beyond a naive person's understanding and it of course makes one wonder how realistic they are.
I recommend everyone watch the TV show warrior that was shown it's a great martial art show
Indeed! Best martial Arts seen in a while! Hbo max picked that series for season 3! That’s a blessing woot woot
Dang! I need to rewatch it😁
As a character yeah it was kinda crummy that they didn't show him fighting with them.... But for the guy in the suit doing the acting, I gotta give him mad props for doing that intro essentially blind.
An old friend of mine who practiced with nunchucks told me that the "ready" pose with the 'chucks held behind one shoulder, one hand holding same side high like a hammer and the other crossed over and low meant that your opponent couldn't tell where the swing would be coming from depending on which hand you swung with. Something fairly unique to nunchucks as swords/axes/spears/staves have more predictable arcs. I'd also note that in all the various martial arts schools I've trained in I have had demonstrated many times various techniques to deal with swords and staves barehanded but no one have ever tried to show me a way to intercept a nunchuck.
Exactly
The skill curve for mastering the nunchuck is probably one of the highest -- but in terms of unpredictability it's top tier.
Consider that flexible weapons (nunchucks, three section staves, whips, kusari gama, etc.) all have a sufficient length to wrap around limbs raised in defense against them. Ergo, the interception of such weapons probably is not taught because it is ill advised to extend a limb for those weapons to target and/or entrap.
Having worked the nunchaku since I was 13, I can tell you from my own personal experience, the weak point of attack against that is the center chain/rope of the chucks or hand holding them. With a close watchful eye, and knowing the precise time to approach for the takeover is critical. Practice is key, either on the back swing, or closer to the opponent's body, you eventually figure it out, after you get hit a few times... lol
I have praticed the nunchucks since the 80s and still to this day it's like its become a part of me when using is as
Easy as drinking a glass of water, but i prefer using the nunchucks for demostration and the artistic side of it rather
Then expecting to find my self in self defense combat but it does build courage in a person when used for the right
Purpose in a hostile situation this has been said also by Master Yung kil song.
I really enjoyed this video and you my lady is 100 percent awesome.
The story of that Warrior fight is incredible. He’s slow with it because it’s not actually his. He happens upon them in the melee and just goes with it. It’s awesome.
I agree! The character Ah Sahm uses weapons sparingly, but making him use the nunchucks was a great homage to Bruce Lee. Plus, the actor said he's never used nunchucks before this show and had to train for 6 months prior. Was not easy. lol
I love warrior man, probably one of my favorite shows ever!
How was it possible for Johnathan Brandis’ Nunchuck training scenes from Sidekicks, to not make this list? The nunchuck’s were even metal!
Yep
Yeah the dream sequence at the competition, I’ve never seen a better display of blazing fast nun chucking. Hopefully Sidekicks is in part 2
Informative - thank you.... Stay alert and safe.
I like the scene in Return of the Dragon, where Bruce faces off with an Italian gang. He discards one of his nunchuks early on in the fight, and continues with a single one. By the time he's at the last guy, and he disarms him, that guy picks up the discarded nunchuk and proceeds to hit himself in the face with it.
You mean The way of the Dragon?
@@starkiller258 yes
I like that she wasn't baited on judging an idol like Bruce Lee, probably because she feels there it is entrapment and out of respect for him.
For that, she has definitely earned my respect.
Good to see Alyson Hannigan on our screens again after all these years. 😂😂😂
*ahem* thats Stripper Lily
So on the Nija Turtles, the move that he was doing we used to call a butterfly. Its like a spin, with an extra spin. I could do that with my set either alternating or at the same time which took some upper torso coordination because of the arm pull, and me using real chucks that were about 4 pounds on each set.
My friends in the Tai Chi class liked it because it was slower than when the foam ones were used and they could see how they moved as opposed to the super light practice sets that we could spin like lightning, and as I mentioned before I had the chains measured to my palms so it was easier to walk them around my hands, and they would just go to where I could walk them and grab without having to move my hands up or down.
Is nobody going to comment how nice, chill and laid back the super cool lady commentator is? Like she stole the show right there, we need more of her comments
There are more than 2,600 comments: have you read them all?
Give me a break with your "is nobody going to comment..."
🤦♂
You already know game of death is a straight 10. Took me 3months to learn the fundamentals and in about 8 months I was comfortable with slightly advanced movements. Nun-chuckas in my opinion are really effective when doing the basics with them at a great speed and using proper timing. Great video I really enjoyed it.
I remember banging my knees or banging my elbows accidentally so many times learning nunchucks
Loved the down to earth tone, pls bring her back!
The guy on the HBO show was probably the closest to what I could and did do when I was 18 in HS. I knew about 6 combo's and could work 2 pair fairly well, but for the most part they were show off combo's.
Now I did know that these moves were for show, and I knew how to also strike with them as we practiced on watermelons and pumpkins for effect. I also thank the good Lord that I was never in a situation where I felt that I needed or wanted to hit some one lethally with my set of Chucks.
The set I had at the time had ball bearings on the chain heads and the chains were measured to be just enough to walk around my palms, and they were balanced so that the wood clubs were all 4 the same weight. So they were a matched set. I kept them for years and I think my first wife either sold them or they got lost in moving when I was in the Navy.
I still have my pair of Sai which I also learned to show off with, and or use as a practical weapon set if need be.
Now I make Custom Archery bows, and can hit a pop can at 50 yards, and once again, I hope and prey that I never have to use that skill against another human being.
You need her in more of these. She was so much more fun than your usual people.
I can't believe that a master of nunchucks happens to be a girl. That's like a guy who is considered a master at using nail polish.
@@junofranco6638 wha-... what?
@@MegaEmmanuel09 It's rare to see female martial artist using nunchucks. They're more into swords.
@@junofranco6638 how is liking swords like a guy being a master at using nail polish? Also, the best wig makers in the world are men. Cosmetics industry is ran by men. Is that equivalent to the female expert Muay Thai fighter they have or the female Kali expert?
i agree. she was pretty fun. i still picture the scene, where you knock yourself out with the thing 😆
Nobody can ever surpass Bruce Lee's greatness in martial arts movies.
CAP JACKIE HAD BETTER MOVIES
@@azaria2435 yea better quality video and idk about story i enjoy Either Jackie and Bruce Lee but Bruce Lee more realistic for martial art and Jackie more like comedy
@@dutasusuindonesia324 exactly Bruce was more realistic while Jackie was more flashy action and acrobats plus comedy
@@azaria2435 yeah, Jackie wouldn’t exist without Bruce Lee. Learn some respect
I think the closest to ever do it was Donnie Yen in the Fist of Legend scene
This was awesome. Growing up in the 80s, my friends and i were all about nunchucks, chinese stars, and ninja-yoroi
This woman is legit. I only have about 8 months of chucks during my martial arts journey. Fell in love with the bokken/sword. I took a year of Akido just to understand the katana more.
love her honesty between movie and practicality: you rock Thekla! 10/10
"A nunchuck to the knee cap" I love it!
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took a nunchuck to the knee cap.
did she mean bruce lee or the tmmt? im too lazy to watch the entire video
I'm not going to even hold anyone up... Bruce could do no wrong in my book.... Pure legend 💪
I’m with you bro!
In demonstrating, I use to hold it a little closer to chain, but for actual striking I held it closer to the end for more momentum and avoid being disarm (like in stick fighting).
I feel that these things being illegal is more about protecting those who are dumb enough to get a pair then promptly bash their own skulls open.
This is both true and funny
Its too keep kids from bashing each other's brains out, in the parking lot after school.
@@springbloom5940 Based on what I saw in high school and onward, I think the chance of some random dumbass clubbing himself in the eye and rupturing his own eye ball is much higher than him hurting others.
Maybe this movie isn't well known, but there is an INSANE nunchuku demonstration in a kids movie from 1993 called *Sidekicks* with Chuck Norris and Jonathan Brandis.
Wish she did that one too.
You remindet me of a movie I watched in my youth a hundred Times and forget completly. Thx and you are right.
Yes, great scene.
The white Ninja!
Awesome movie
I used to religiously rent that from blockbuster as a kid lol
"And, this one time, at band camp?" I love the way she talks lol
Measuring kilo pascals of force with any chained weapon, ends up with an equation with a tremendous amount of force. Even versus a long handled fulcrum weapon, the weight of the head x the speed of movement is incredibly more powerful than even the speed seems to indicate.
It is not as reliable as an edged weapon, a fencing sword or just a firearm. However, chained weapons were known as "armor breakers" for a good reason.
There is more than enough power to shatter bone or break otherwise assumed unbreakable things; like car windshields or vertebrate.
No critique of Uncle Ruckus using nunchucks vs Huey from the Boondocks? Very disappointing!
Bushido Brown is a legend lol
That movie theater scene was 🔥
She was great! Please bring her back for Dan Aykroyd's nunchuck scene in Dragnet and Nick Frost using an octopus as improvised nunchucks in Into the Badlands! :D
Bruce Lee was the first one ever to showcase nunchucks on the screen he definitely deserves a 10 out of 10
he is in inventor of nunchucks
I can tell this was a fun one for the editor. She has yall doing a lot of cuts, lol
I appreciate the fact that while being the practitioner of the weapon for a very long time, she understands the Nunchuck's purpose and limitations and does not try to make it to be the best weapon in the world. She knows that Nunchucks are fighting weapons, so showing off is not the most important part, hitting people with them is. Also it was a farming tool that was adopted to be a fighting weapon, with concealability being a big selling point. As such it might not be the best weapons choice against time-tested battle weapons like axe or spear, but are great for brawls
and not necessarily even the best as a concealed weapon either. in victoria Australia for instance they are banned. of course a walking stick is fine and those are arguably more dangerous anyway.
Swords in competition kung fu are typically made of ‘spring steel’ meaning they’re highly flexible. You can still easily cut someone or yourself with a spring steel sword, but actually killing someone requires a harder steel or wood more than sharpness to stab through the body or smash bone as it cuts through soft tissue.
A pencil or a rock can be a real weapon. It’s about technique. Like she says about nunchuck, these were mostly farm tools in the beginning. Most Chinese martial arts weapons are originally common objects like staves, fans, threshers, and so on, because martial arts was highly regulated by government. The minority of weapons are military, such as swords, pudaou (looks like a giant butter knife), and so on. Tiger fork was obviously originally for killing tigers, but it could also simply be a pitchfork.
If it looks like a broom, then the original weapon was probably a broom.
The issue with those competition sword is not spring steel, it's thickness and weight, or lack thereof. In fact, spring steel is decently hard, about 45 HRC (harder than construction steel, on the same level as a titanium diver's knife for example), just that such a sword is so thin it bends if it hits any obstacle and is therefore not really capable of transferring the force of the strike - unless you hit it perfectly straight on the spine, then the steel has no or very little room to bend.
As any craftsman will tell you - flesh is by default right at the bottom of the hardness scale, basically the weakest material around. I mean, we've probably all cut a piece of meat with one of those flimsy little throwaway plastic knifes, right?
@@decnet100 That’s dead wrong. Spring steel, you can bend it with your hands. It’s not like stuff they use in karate competition weapons where the blade is stiff but very light. Still the same basic concept, that it’s for show, not combat.
@@JohnOhkumaThiel It's definitely not dead wrong from an engineering/material sciences perspective. You're absolutely right in saying these swords are for show, and quite useless in combat, but I think your reasoning why is looking at the wrong aspects. Fun fact, just for starters: the Kukri blades of the nepalese Gurkha warriors - made of spring steel, obviously useful in combat, seen action in two world wars and more.
The "bendy-ness" (aka spring rate) of any steel knife/sword or any other steel object depends mostly on the thickness of the blade, and that is because the internal steel springiness (young's modulus) of most steels are in fact quite closely grouped - ~200000-210000N/mm²; many steel comparison tables don't even list different values for different steels. There are some outliers such as very high corrosion-resistance steel (due to very high content of alloying components, so the properties are not as much dominated by ferritic crystals), but spring steels, typically quite low-medium in alloying components, sit right in the middle of the normal carbon steel range.
So what makes it special, why use it for springy things? Using spring steel allows the manufacturer of anything supposed to be springy, whether coil springs or show swords, to use very thin profiles that can bend a lot and repeatedly, without getting damaged or bent out of shape. That is because it actually has quite good performance, and it's also quite cheap. If you use a very thin profile along a practice sword (say, just 1-2mm spine thickness), that makes such a sword lightweight, easy to handle and balanced; also cheap, because you just use a fraction of the material and don't need any complex forging, heat-treating or machining techniques applied to each blade - just stamp it out of a sheet of spring steel, which you can buy directly from the big industrial rolling mill, by the boatload. Please note how a regular sword, as the karate swords you mention, is profiled, so it has a spine ~3-5mm thick; which gives it most of its stiffness, while the cheap kung-fu swords I've seen are basically flat (sometimes they are ground to a tiny bit of a diamond/rhombus-shape, to give the illusion of having a profile). Thickness and weight are obviously what makes a hack-slash-stab-weapon work; imagine you're making a machete from an I-beam, it'll work fine for a few cuts on pretty much everything in a human body, and it's vastly inferior to spring steel in all relevant properties.
Let's put numbers to it: "Normal" construction/structural steel of which you'd make such I-beams for bridges or skyscrapers (S235JR over here, pretty much the same as A36 in the US) can take about 360N/mm² of tensional force before it breaks, and around 230N/mm² before it starts to permanently bend without returning to the original shape like a spring (aka limit of elasticity). To put that into real world numbers: A 4mm² section can hold up the weight of a man (say, around 100kg ~1000N of force) without stretching. It can take ~50% more load before it breaks, giving it a huge safety margin - which is why it's used in construction; if something goes wrong, it usually results in buckling, but not catastrophic failure.
Compared to that, a typical, not even high-grade spring steel like 38Si7 can take around 1200N/mm² before breaking, and around 1030N/mm² before permanently bending. With those numbers, in theory you need only about 1mm², ~1/16 in. spring steel wire to lift the weight of a man - in laboratory conditions, obviously; don't try at home etc. I'd say, that's pretty impressive performance of spring steel. And it's clear what that means to the manufacturer: You can use less of that stuff to achieve the same requirements.
Looking at hardness, it's the same picture - 15-20 HRC for construction steel, 40-50HRC for spring steel (higher numbers mean harder materials; it's not quite linear though). For comparison, top line knife steels typically harden to around 55-65HRC - certainly a significant difference, a spring steel kitchen knife for example would require sharpening quite often; but it's absolutely 100% capable of cutting human flesh and bone - as is construction steel.
There's a difference though: Spring steel can probably cut through teeth, construction steel is actually softer than human tooth enamel, so that machete would be a bad choice for any sort of dentistry ;) - if you make your dental implement from spring steel, it would actually work (a few times, hope you don't need to drill out half a post-apocalyptic settlement's worth of cavities with it).
Long story short: You can make a regular thickness, profiled blade out of spring steel, sharpen it and hit someone with it. It'll cut perfectly fine. Will not stay sharp for as long as a specialized blade steel, but certainly deadly. Spring steel is not any more "springy" than regular, unless you make it thin and flat. Which is what those kung-fu swords are.
Didn't a lot of those weapons come from Okinawa? Okinawa was expressly forbidden to have weapons, so Thresher weapons, Hoes and rakes, became weapons.
I am probably wrong
@@Fouremyleofceres The kungfu weapons?
Definitely not.
Rakes and other stuff, idk.
I remember making my own Nunchucks a few times as a child...
By sawing pieces off an old broomstick, then bend nails into a 'U' shape, cutting the head of the nail, and hammering it into the end of the sticks. Finally tying them together with bright orange packing string.
And afterwards, of course try and do a few "cool moves" until I smacked myself hard enough to not want to be a ninja anymore for a while🤕
clicked with interest while also thinking about TMNT (1990) and I was not disappointed :)