Learn How To Use Nunchucks For Beginners #1

type martial arts class you're gonna

learn how to use nunchucks for beginner

this is lesson one

grab the nunchucks you're gonna hold it

in the right hand with your palm facing

the sky

the side with the chain or the string

doesn't matter what kind of nunchucks

you have

that's gonna come out of the thumb side

and you're going to crank it forward

in the simple rotation this is how

you're going to get started learning how

to use your nunchucks

you're going to be spinning like bruce

lee you'll learn how to use the

nunchucks very quickly for self-defense

for fun make it look cool or keep

somebody off of you

just use it for you know simple get them

out of your face

smack them back but you're going to

learn no matter what you do how to do

the spin first

so any style of nunchucks that you want

to learn starts with a spin this is

called an

outer orbital and it's just my palm

facing the sky

and i'm making a small circular motion

kind of like i'm cranking something

turning it forward so it's really small

at first

my hand is about in the middle of the

chuck and then you're going to turn your

hand

over make sure it's not too close you're

going to smack yourself yourself

push it out like this away from you and

then do that exact same motion

you're just pushing cranking

getting warmed up you're going to

lubricate the joints stay safe from

injury in this workout

but mostly this is about learning how to

use the chucks

whether you want to learn like bruce lee

i'm going to show you all the basic

bruce lee moves today

palm up and that's not because you want

to be like bruce lee maybe you do

but this is just about learning how to

use it really well

getting some basic moves down from the

first day you pick up the chucks

whether you buy a pair or you make a

pair someone gives them to you they

don't want to use them anymore

you're going to know how to do a bunch

of basic stuff after this worked out

so these are all small motions palm down

palm up and i want you to always warm up

this way

calm down and this is to train your

brain this is going to get you there

faster

one of the things that i've really paid

attention to over the last

30 years of teaching martial arts is how

to make not shortcuts

but how to get your brain and your body

my body

my brain mind yours get them closer

to being able to do the move faster

so everything is about skill

acceleration

so how do you get the skill a lot faster

and this is the key

we did this we did that you put those

together

after 30 seconds of the warm up now you

have the most basic move

and this is that figure eight and go

fast

whack yourself in the arm like that go

slow

you can go wrist length which is just

very close to your body or

forearm just increased your reach or

the whole arm these are all the same

move but

again you're doing them

in a way that you're either fighting out

here you're fighting closer

or you're going for speed now a word

quickly about where to hold it

if you hold it here on the end and

you're using i'm going to use this

for self-defense you can say that's the

target and you

swing it you have all that force power

leverage because you're holding it here

if you want to do something really cool

and you're doing demonstrations or

you're showing off a little bit

or at a competition maybe you need speed

speed's going to come

holding it here so this is for power

this is for speed

and usually here that's going to be more

for tricks when you hold it

more in the middle but don't overthink

it just get started

put it in your other hand hold in the

middle string comes out of or in this

case the chain

the thumb small cranking motions forward

this is a forward orbital spin spinning

to the outside

of my body palm down now you're spinning

to the inside

you're going to learn very quickly the

hard way if your arm is in too close you

can whack yourself

so keep that far away from you palm down

palm up you always do this like i said

always do this for about 30 seconds palm

down

pulling down going up going down

going up and then put them together now

you have your figure eight

your forward figure eight and this is

going to be holding more

in the middle if you hold it at the uh

right at the tip it's gonna go faster if

you hold it down here

like we said you're going to generate

more power

more for self-defense and you can play

around with that but

start at the beginning just in the

middle as you're warming up

30 seconds here with this figure eight

all you're doing is carving that

sideways figure eight or the infinity

sign with your thumb

down back down back put it into the

other hand

you're gonna reverse everything starting

with your hand palm up facing the sky

instead of cranking forward you're going

to crank backward pulling it into you

now you have a reverse orbital

on the outside orbit think of the moon

orbiting around the earth the earth

around the sun that's all this is doing

this is orbiting around

usually it's going to be your head but

the outside of your body

makes your arms out palm down inside

and again you're just pulling in toward

you

you've got inside palm up outside

inside palm down is inside palm up is

outside

pulling in and then in and out now you

have

two tricks two basic spins the first one

was that forward figure eight

the second one is this reverse figure

eight so now you're up to two

jackie or bruce lee only did about eight

to ten moves in

any movie he always did the same ones

and you already know two of them now

yeah that's early early or late however

you look at it right

good morning so you're pulling it in

pulling it in

bring it into the other hand palm up

first the

string or the chain to the outside

pulling back

to create that reverse outer orbital

palm down inner orbital palm up

good hank it's good to see you too palm

up

palm down up and down

and now you have this reverse figure

eight

pulling in and i want you to think of it

in these terms

when you're going down that's a strike

right

for self-defense especially it's very

effective and again you're going to hold

more toward the end

when you do that strike imagine they're

coming in to punch

or stab or grab you and you pull it up

and pull it up so this reverse

is a good way this reverse spinning is a

good way to get strength speed power

disguise repetition

for those deflecting strikes or blocks

when you're going forward palm down

that's a good way to disguise repetition

get a lot of

reps in a lot of practice and your

downward strikes and again

here for power this is the middle this

is speed

power speed somewhere in the middle you

get a lot of both

so we did our forward our reverse

both hands palm up palm down you want to

do about 30 seconds

of these basic spins every time you pick

up your chucks like you said your two

tricks in

when it comes to bruce lee nunchucks

tricks you have two now you have the

forward

figure eight and you have the reverse

now

going into the basic strikes you're

going to go down first this first one

think of as vertical when you use it for

self-defense

right through the middle right either

they're trying to grab

or they're getting really close top of

the head

you can hear it i'm sure you can hear it

especially with these metal chucks

it's very powerful from here just down

and

up so that's number three

you now have three techniques think of a

bruce lee movie

you're going down up and down awesome

well welcome it's always a good day

to train martial arts and i've always

said this

martial arts was never made for the

little three and four and five-year-old

kids

it was made for us for the grown men and

women who need to

learn some practical self-defense they

need to learn

stay in shape fit strong healthy

flexible so any age is a good age

so 30 seconds to the right 30 seconds

with the left

just down and up i want to show you

something that i always

remember i don't always remember to show

it and that's i'm opening

at the end of the technique i'm opening

my hand

just a little bit good and if you're 10

that's the perfect age to start

welcome i'm not saying that you're not

supposed to do it

i'm just saying for all those old people

like me

don't make age an excuse why you can't

right and i know you're not it's why

you're here

when you open your hand that's a natural

break if i bring it down

and my hand is still closed look where

it goes it goes right into those

knuckles

and that hurts it's not going to kill

you you're going to feel it

and i do this instinctively i stopped

thinking about this years ago because

i've done this so much

when i come down i open it here

yeah exactly

uh the glock is final right this one

gives you a lot more options

one's not good one's not bad but

understanding the value of each is

extremely important

yes down and back down and back good

point

always get that other hand up guard your

head don't let them knock you out

turn off your operating system so when

you come down your hand opens a little

bit

that slows it down keeps it it just

changes the trajectory

and now it's not smashing your knuckles

when you bring it forward like that

it kind of rotates around and it's not

going to bash you so much

that's if you're getting a lot of you're

smacking yourself a lot all right

that's three number four across the body

from here to here and again think of

this is a strike down keeping them away

from you

they're reaching in that's pulling up

that's deflecting or knocking away their

hand

their punch maybe they got that knife

so you go down and up

and when you bring it here you're gonna

see i'm touching

my back i'm allowing it to wrap

and dissipate all that energy through

the shoulder and it doesn't hit that

hard

if you were to bring it like this and

keep it away

then this is going to smash you really

hard so you have to learn how to

touch it and roll it almost onto

that shoulder good so you bring it here

same thing's true with the hip when you

bring it back

just kind of wrap it it's in that meaty

bum

back and forth add those two one two

one two what do we have two four

we have this that's one bruce lee move

two bruce lee move three

and four number five is going to come

across the body

and back this is a it can be up to the

face

horizontal strike here to the middle

maybe to the knees or to that vicious

animal running loose the vicious pit

bull or whatever for self-defense

or it can be right in the middle put

those together

one two three and i call this the bruce

lee triangle

so from the first day you learn how to

do your figure eight forward

figure eight backward and the bruce lee

triangle

you're up to five bruce lee tricks if

you watch any bruce lee movie if you're

a

bruce lee fan if you're 10 you might not

know who he is

but you you're my age or older you

definitely know who he is right

you go back and you're like that's where

we all learned about this that's where

we all got

fell in love with it was inspired was

the bruce lee movie

but this is all he's doing

he throws in a couple of spins he goes

down across and back

he does a couple spins does a few of

these with a high pitched

uh screen goes back to here he hits

this guy hits that guy he hits that guy

he goes back here

that's the whole movie except for the

time he gets on the ground he flops

around smacking him on the toes

but that's this move here now you know

it number

six you're gonna spin it

you're gonna catch it under your arm

because this is one of my favorite six

is my favorite

you're gonna pinch by pulling it in

you're pinching

the chucks you create tension there

and tension here by adding pressure like

you're gonna pop it out

that's popping it out right so from here

yep squeeze squeeze squeeze and then

release when you swing swing

catch pop swing out here two orbitals

it doesn't have to be two could be ten

it could be one orbital catch it

what this is under the arm watch what my

hand does

i'm out here i'm here that's the second

move you learn you move this

or you learn this you learn that this is

part of your warm up

when you bring it under or when you

bring it in

you just turn your hand

oh we've got this is this this is

classic bruce lee right here too

front and back of the arm the upper arm

and all you're doing is just down and up

down and up right

one two one two one two like that

do a couple swings catch it catch it

you just turn more catch it in there

pinch release so one two catch

release now you've got what do we have

um we had the figure eight

bruce lee we had the bruce lee triangle

we're now just making combos bruce lee

triangle

and then we have the double and the

catch double

catch and smack them for self-fits catch

boom one two under catch

one two under catch and the last thing

you have to learn in this basic

number one we're gonna do a lot of these

how to use your nunchucks classes

the last uh thing that i want you to

learn today right now

is how to transfer from one hand to the

other the hand pass

now there are two way two simple ways to

do it one is to go

forward and this one is actually a

little bit harder and it's only hard

it's technically not hard it's only hard

because you're going to hit yourself

or you're going to think you're going to

hit yourself and you will angel hate

yourself

and that hurts here's what you have to

know

about this wherever you point that

that's where this has to go because it's

attached to that rope really

that's just an escrima sticker cauli

stick on our knee stick right

but because of that um that's

attached to it wherever i point that

that's where that's going to go

what you're going to do what i did all

the time when i was a kid and i was

first learning these

and i was trying to go from one hand to

the other i

didn't point it to my hand which is what

you're going to do you're going to point

it

it goes right in your hand point it see

how that's pointed

directly into my hand that's the only

place it can go

but because we don't see it we're not

used to these moves

we naturally point it at our head so

instead of that i'm going to do real

slowly because i don't want to whack

myself i know these hurt

i'm going to point it here and then you

see this out of the corner of your eye

flying and oh and then you crash into

your head you smack yourself you break

your glasses

and that's because you pointed this at

your head that's

the only way it does it if

yeah almost everybody does it this way

we're going to talk about this way first

this way

this is the easiest way this is the way

bruce lee

does it in the movies he almost never

does it like this i think

i've only seen him do it one time where

he's coming

over and under over and under over and

under

now if you watch the movie danano santo

who fights him in game of death

who was his student but is also a great

martial artist before he met bruce lee

daniel

santo does all kinds of cool

advanced moves and tricks while bruce

lee's

keeping it super simple you're going to

keep it super simple from the start you

have

outer orbital inner orbital figure eight

you have vertical strike you have this

angle

you have across the body that's the

horizontal

you put those together one two three

you've got the bruce lee triangle

you've got spin spin catch pop em

outer orbital under the arm pinching pop

and then i'm going to show you this hand

transfer first

but i wanted you to know where you point

that that's where this is going

so this is coming here here

here yes one two

one two look what's happening i'm just

pulling it

in front of the body a lot of times

you'll try to pull from behind it's just

the way your brain works

there's nothing wrong with that it's

just different you pull it up

and you turn your hand down wherever you

point that

the other hand comes in front of your

body you're also going to try to do this

i don't know why it's where brains work

reach across grab it

reach across grab it pulling from one

side

to the other side all that is

is slow slow

so you're gonna go from one hand to the

other hand

bruce lee triangle bruce lee triangle

or you can do this this bruce lee

triangle switch

bruce lee triangle however you want to

do it just

start to weave them together there's one

like yeah easy peasy right easy peasy

with lots of practice

one last technique this is the bonus

bruce lee move it's one of my favorites

because

it's not technically hard but it creates

a lot of power it's very intense and

that's from this position where one hand

is up one hands down

he slowly dramatically for the cameras

turns and pushes out

now you're coming down with a knife

you're coming with a punch you're coming

with any

uh straight strike or chopping strike i

can block here

using especially if you have a chain

using that chain and then i can twist

around and i can remove it from your

hands

or if that's your wrist that really

hurts i can break those bones

just think of a nutcracker kind of looks

like for those of you old people like me

that looks like the old

nutcrackers right you get the the

walnuts at christmas time

the holidays crack that's what's

happening it's a lot of force right

so you're here turn

push pull to the other side turn

now when you're turning what you can't

see is that i'm putting

pressure here by pushing my hand up and

putting pressure here by pushing my hand

down

so i'm pulling them apart and from here

you

turn turn and you keep pressure on the

whole time and then you go out

other side push and this is almost like

an isometric exercise you're going to

feel this

in your hands and your shoulders it's a

pretty good workout

just go from one hand to the other one

and this is when you want to

change the pace think of someone who's

watching you and everything is the same

speed

it kind of runs together after a while

runs together after a while then all of

a sudden

you slow it down for dramatic effect

then you go back to fast boom boom boom

boom boom boom catch pop boom slow

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and then back to fast that's the whole

purpose of a slow move but like that by

the way

in a demonstration or if you're doing

competition

or you just want to look really cool you

start to do your freestyle flow

nunchucks one of the best flow weapons

ever so for

review and then we're done for lesson

one i'm going to show you in lesson two

i want you to learn how to wrist roll

and wrist roll

wrist roll wrist roll so don't miss that

lesson three

i'm going to be throwing it and catching

it

so we're going to build up these skills

each one

builds on the next one so for review

outer orbital this is your warm up inner

orbital

outer enter you do a few on each one you

put it together 30 seconds here

forward figure eight same thing on the

other hand then

reverse you're pulling toward you outer

inner outer inner and then put them

together

now you have two bruce lee moves you

have that forward spin

and you have the reverse spin three if

you count the outer orbital right

but then you have down and up and i

always want you to practice

striking because if you know a martial

as weapon but you can't defend yourself

with it

what's the point right so down and up

down and up

and then over back and up so one

two three that's that uh horizontal

angular strike diagonal strike

horizontal

and vertical the bruce lee triangle one

two three

one two three one two three and then the

outer orbital into

an armpit pinch i don't know what it's

called chicken wing right

you know squeeze squeeze squeeze and

then release so one two

catch create tension pop em one two

catch tension always do the same with

both hands and then

switching hand to hand and the easiest

one first

on lesson two we're gonna start going

into this harder one and i'm gonna tell

you how to keep from smacking your head

so much

you're never you're always gonna hit

yourself but i'm gonna show you how to

do that less from the start

so you're going hand to hand and the

final trick bruce lee trick or

nunchuck nunchaku technique is that

squeezing this block from here

block from here blocked the whole time

you're pulling them apart to have

tension tension tension

all the way through until you can block

it and then later i'll show you how to

grab that katana rip it out of his hand

and give him what for for self-defense

all right grab your nunchuck

play this over again if you need a set i

put links there below

or you can make a set both ways are

right i will see you guys in just a

little bit

and i really appreciate you guys

watching this one

i'll see you on the set on the second

one remember on the second one we're

adding new techniques every week