How many Nunchaku users learned from an instructor, and how many taught themselves?

Question

I have recently gotten into nunchucks, and I was wondering, of all of you who are relatively good with nunchucks, how many learned in a class from an intructor, and how many learned by themselves off the internet or whatever?

Answer 1

I've gotten banged up enough learning from an instructor.  I probably would have killed myself if I tried to learn them on my own.

Answer 2

I learned from the net. I learned some of my techniques from watchign Bruce Lee movies and I memorized his form from youtube. As for the flashier moves, I learned it from freestyle nunchaku sites; here's a good place to get started learning flashy moves: http://www.freestyleforum.net/index.php?...

I also take tae kwon do, so when I get to black belt level, I'll also learn from an instructor. Also, don't be afraid to experiment and you can teach yourself some unique moves.

Answer 3

Well mike here's some teaching that you'll never forget!!! check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMjQ6mcOf... I'll teach you all you need to know just watch the whole video because it's me at my best attempt at levity as well as truth.

After two full minutes of me rattling on and on you'll get to learn the best "nun-chucks" technique ever known to man bro..... no lie.  BTW I had a jujitsu master show me the technique I'm teaching on this video.  He was a very quiet and secretive man .... Not many people know this technique any where in the world dude ..... no lie..... no joke.  You will not learn this any where else dude.

The man who instructed me on this "jujitsu" style of nun-chucks also instructed me to follow my own path and to be a "predecessor" to no sensei or hanshi.  BTW this style of nun-chucks was founded on the back bone of shizukana-jutsu making its official technique name "shizukana no okoru" which I did not mention on this video for a reason.  This technique may also be called "shizukana-jutsu chikakuni okoru".

Edit: If it's not on the web it's not real according judomofo.  BTW I don't know where you get I go around calling people g*y dude, but that's the second lie you've rattled off about me thus far.  As far as shizukana-jutsu goes there's not one bit of proof that it exists other than the video link I've posted here.  I didn't even mention the words shizukana-jutsu on the video.  I simply said, "Street version"   There may be a handful of people that read what we've written here so it isn't like I was advertizing my art.  For all intensive purposes "American Combat System" is the only commercial art that you'll ever know of that I am part of.  As far as my school, my people and anything we practice you'll never know other than "American Combat System".  As we get our videos finished one by one over the next few months or so there will be plenty of shizukana-jutsu's techniques on video for all to see .... will they know where these techniques came from?  NO .... I guess to someone like you that'll make them all fake, but hey it is only you .... and you have nothing constructive to ad other than, "Hey I've studied 40 different arts to about blue belt" ....... very impressive man.  As far as the lineage of I know will ever go what's it yours or anyone elses business .... the proof's on the video and that's good enough for me personally and I'm not sweating what you think or any one else for that fact.

Answer 4

Well, I'm too old to have started learning  to use them from the internet, but yeah I did start off teaching myself how to swing them and how to pass them in front and behind. The thing is I wasn't actually learning how to do anything with them aside from look cool or whatever. I didn't actually know c**p about actually using them until I was taught the proper way to use and control them by an instructor. Then I learned more different thing to do with them than the goofy young me could have imagined.

Swinging them around and doing front and back passes isn't learning to use them it is just getting some basic moves down that look good but are useless for the most part. Now I can attack, parry attacks, trap attacks, defend against weapons and trap weapons with them. I doubt there will ever be a time in my life that it will come into play, but at least now if I needed to I could actually use them and understand how to control them.

Answer 5

Well, my instructor taught us a few basic moves and had us train on our own. For Shodan we had to be able to spar with all weapons freestyle as well as perform with them without opponents for two minutes straight each weapon continuously.  

Answer 6

Sorry but William P:

A jujitsu instructor showed you how to use a Kobudo (Okinawan) weapon? Also they have been around A LOT longer than the 1900s, (there are versions of it throughout Chinese arts, and examples of it in texts and scrolls (though connected by horsehair, or chord instead of chain) far longer than 1900. But hey what did I know...

I do find it weird that a secret unknown Jujitsu instructor (mainland Japanese, Samurai derived art) knew "The best nunchaku technique in the world".

All this talk of secret arts, and unknown long lost styles of Jujitsu that uses Kobudo weapons seems pretty fishy. But what do I know.. apparenly swords, and nunchucks are street techniques according to you, despite the legality of carrying either one, or the cumbersome nature of walking around with a pair of them..

But hey... I'm a conceal and carry gun/knife guy, not a nunchaku guy...

Wow Willaim P: Did I hit a note with you? You seem to get all riled up all the sudden, maybe you will call everyone else fake when they call you on your BS and run around on other questions calling people g*y.

First off, I didn't say your instructor was Japanese, I said the STYLE in which he teaches (a purely mainland Japanese style) is not synonymous with nunchaku. Nearly all Jujitsu is sword based in their approach to weapons. But hey, maybe your secretive jujitsu master cross trained... or this mysterious style just decided to pick up nunchaku, change the spelling to nun-chucks (as you spell it). I was going to write a whole big thing to you about your silly little personal attacks, but then I laughed it off, internet tough guy babbling is comical to me.  My profile pretty much states what I have studied and to what level, my answers speak for themselves. My ranks, records, and lineages are verifiable.

But hey keep up the punk and chump talk, it is very enlightening as to your character.

Also I would becareful about the self promoting thing, and directing people to your myspace page, some people could actually check it out and be far bigger ***** to you than I would ever want to be.

As far as the historical use of nunchaku, since Okinawan Kobudo is about 400 years old, and the nunchaku factor into their art, maybe you can explain from a historical context why you believe they didn't they come into use until the 19th century, and a reason why Kobudo masters, and people who studied the history of kobudo weaponry seems to be less enlightened than you?

Again, I'm not a Kobudo guy, just someone who likes learning about the history of stuff, since I am so wrong maybe you can point me in the right direction with where you get your facts about a weapon that was Chinese, around longer than the Kobudo styles (I agree with this, it is considered Chinese in Origin) but only came into use in turn of the 1900s? Despite it's use in battles mentioned in historical texts far older than the 1900s? I am more than prepared to admit I am wrong in the face of more legitimate sources, then your word for it. Also, since I take it your jujitsu art you are learning is less than 100 years old, since the nunchaku is the backbone of the art, and it didn't come around until the 1900s as you claim. What is the lineage? Who was the style's founder? Who taught him Jujitsu, or the Nunchaku for that matter?

I am not being a smart @ss, I just would sincerely like to know, since there are a vast number of people out there who claim it to be a weapon used that has been used for a long time, I am curious as to what it is that has given you the knowledge that you have.

Or we just supposed to take your word for it... hmmm who comes across as knowing everything...