Gesundheit.
Ancient Chinese Prophecy:
“If Empty Hand is deadly then Empty Hand with weapon is deadlier.”
Proverbs:
“Empty hands are the Devils workshop.”
It doesn’t work well when cutting a tomato…
A nunchaku in the hand is worth two in the armpit.
A fool and his nunchaku are soon departed.
Obviously, the most dangerous weapon known to man is a pit bull.
/gets popcorn
You attach two of them together with a small chain and start whirling them around…hoo, boy!
Actually, I am told that when Gichin Funakoshi first brought karate to Japan, the ideographs were “Chinese hand”, but the Japanese and Chinese don’t get along well together, so the first part was changed to be “empty”. Traditional weapons were generally included in karate training in Okinawa. Later Japanese styles like Shotokan de-emphasized or eliminated weapons training altogether.
Japanese martial arts nerd humor - I like it. The thing is, those Japanese had a martial art for every frakking thing you can think of - fans, swords, sticks, swords on the end of sticks, sickles, ball and chains, sickles with a ball and chain on the end, and my favorite, fukumibarijutsu, where you spit needles at your foes. (Be careful not to sneeze.)
Regards,
Shodan
My money is on fukumibarijutsu having been invented by a pissed-off mother-in-law.
I had a roommate who got arrested for carrying “concealed” nunchaku. If the cops are going to arrest you for it, it doesn’t strike me as an ideal self defense weapon.
Besides, nine-section-whips are cooler. 
This is a nitpick on my part. There is no such thing as nunchucks, numchux or any of the other mispronunciations of the word nunchakus.
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And yes, the origin of a lot of traditional martial arts weapons was a re-purposing of a farming implement of some sort. Kamas were sickles. Korean Bahng Mahng Ee were laundry tools, etc.
So? Many loanwords mutate when adopted by another language. Nunchucks is an English word that is derived from Japanese.
And if you’re going to nit-pick, do it right. The word is nunchaku. No such word as nunchakus. Japanese doesn’t use -s for plurals. Actually, it doesn’t distinguish between singular and plural.
nvr mind
99% of the time the person knocking the nunchaku bought a pair & after knocking himself out a few times he realized it takes extensive training to be able to use it in a fight & now tells everyone who will listen it’s “ineffective”…unless you wanna hurt yourself.
Elmore’s ebook is THE most realistic thing I’ve read in the nunchaku. The nunchaku is even more effective than it is simple…which is VERY! All it is is a 2-piece club linked by a chain/rope used to beat or choke an assailant. If it wasn’t for Bruce Lee nobody would even know what the hell a “numchuck” even is. There has never been a single shred of proof of its martial use in any art ever. An angry disarmed Okinawan farmer used it to strangle an enemy & it’s use grew from there. If it wasn’t successfully used many times it would have long since disappeared. I’m sure there are many agricultural tools men have used to kill with that weren’t dreamed into being a karotty weapon. The nunchaku simply was used by Okinawans who also developed a very effective unarmed method of self defense & it was sucked into legend by vacuum & Hollywood marketing the right kinda movie at the right time. The nunchaku needs to be in the Okinawan agricultural museum & not associated with martial arts in any way or form. This fact does not negate the nunchaku’s deadliness one bit IMO. It just isn’t part of karate or kung fu history in real way.
The real history of the nunchaku - Alex Levitas’ NUNCHAKU and NUNCHAKU-DO site
They need to make a movie about a poor Okinawan farmer who goes on a vengeful murder spree using nunchaku rice flail.
So it happens all the time, and it never happens. Gotcha.
Regards,
Shodan
Eleventh-degree Black Belt in Ronco Cap-Snaffler[sup]TM[/sup]-Do
LOL! What a dum-dum.
The nunchaku is a horrible weapon that is the greatest weapon in the world. Got it. :rolleyes:
Are you being paid every time you use that word? That is the only thing that makes sense at this point.
No it doesn’t. What are you even talking about? A few whacks in the shin and and maybe the ear and you quickly learn to swing them without causing yourself serious injury. It’s a fun hand-eye co-ordination training toy but it’s a stupid and pointless weapon - Bruce Lee films notwithstanding.
I’ve got your carroty weapon right here.
You don’t have wear a Gi & train in a dojo to become deadly with the nunchaku. The farmer who invented the weapon, or rather the use of the tool as a weapon, I’m sure didn’t. Paul Anderson won a gold medal lifting weights in his mother’s swing room.