DEFENCE AGAINST NUNCHAKU.
"This pair of sticks connected by rope will cause to worry even to advanced
student."
S. Gvozdev. "Ju-jutsu manual".
"In many martial arts schools students learn how to defence against knife,
stick, chain, gun etc. However in none known me school don't teach how to
defence against nunchaku. May be someone know, how to defence against
nunchaku ?"
From my posting to martial arts mailing list.
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A few years ago i posted question "How to defence against nunchaku ?" into a
few martial arts related newsgroups and mailing lists. I received answers from
many martial artists - traditional and not-traditional, from beginners to
masters. Here you can see answers which are (in my humble opinion) the best
ideas. The order is preference order as i was used it.
1) Run away (it's The Best Choice in many cases).
"Forgive me as I speak herasey against church of Macho. You best bet is to
just run ! Hard to get beat up if you're not there. Face it the guy's got a
weapon, and if he's swinging it at you he obviously doesn't have any
hesitation about using it on you. This is not a safe situation. There are many
times where running fiercely is your best bet."
Marc "Animal" MacYoung.
2) Use tools.
"The best thing for handling chucks is to remember the sage wisdom of 'You are
not an ape, use a tool'. Since laughing boy has already introduced weapons
into the situation, well her can't complain if you do too."
Marc "Animal" MacYoung.
a) Use any long tool.
"Your best bet is to pick up a distance weapon like a broom, shovel, pool cue
or mop. (By the way don't forget that a poke works just as well as a strike).
Then stand back and watch him realize that you're out of his range, but the
same isn't true."
Marc "Animal" MacYoung.
b) Throw something.
"You're next best bet is to practice modified Monkey Gung Fu (scream,
backpedal and throw s**t). A bottle or a rock in the guys chest will mess his
day up something fierce. Also watching someone's face as they realize that
there is no good way to catch a thrown chair is loads of laughs."
Marc "Animal" MacYoung.
"You can throw handful of sand or something like to opponent eyes. If you
don't want to bend over - you can throw it with foot."
From my ideas.
c) Use some kind of stick to disarm opponent.
"If you could grab some kind of stick, bat, cane etc. you can increase your
chances of defending succesfully. Swing your stick at the rope or chain that
conects to nunchaku. If you can hook that and pull it. It will be nearly
impossible for the attacker to hold his weapon. This is one reason that some
polices forces that used the nunchaku have stopped using them. Their officiers
found that they could easily be dis-armed by someone with a cane."
Tom Nardi.
"While the end of the nunchaku movese in a figure-8 the center stays rather
stable. If you can put something in the center you slow the whole thing down.
If you have a stick by striking up and down you most often get through the
figure-8 and can strike the wrist."
Rick Clark.
d) Use some kind of shield or protector.
"I did once know a fellow student who'd put his shoes on his hands so he could
block the strikes... too risky for me though (but better than nothing - A.L.)"
Chris.
"If you have bag, suitcase or something like - you can use it as shield."
From my ideas.
e) Use soft tools.
"Perhaps the funniest defense (but not as sure) is a 'rat tail'. Using a
rolled up towel or tee shirt, snap the end into the chain or rope. This snags
them up and you can either jerk them out of his hand or counter attack."
Marc "Animal" MacYoung.
"How about a belt to defend against nunchaku ? When it's pulled tort between
the hands it can blok, and then be relaxed like a wip... as can other
objects."
Chris.
"If you have a coat or something similar you can toss it into the nunchaku and
tie it up for a second or two."
Rick Clark.
3) Hit your opponent before he swings.
"Before he swings - enter into his area of attack, hereby jamming his attack
which prevents him from swinging his weapon."
Alfred Rodriguez.
4) Try and jam in close after nunchaku have missed with a swing.
"Once your opponent takes a swing, they're out of control and it'll take him a
sec or two to regain that (think that much less - A.L.). That's your
opportunity to move in and close the gab. Once your inside, he can't swing
them at you, he'll have no range."
Craig.
"Method which is very difficult and requires a lot of skill: let him swing,
then enter again into his area of attack at the end of the swing."
Alfred Rodriguez.
5) Try to stop nunchaku with empty hands.
"As a last ditch effort (and I do mean last ditch) you can always try stiking
your hand into the rope and chain. Howewer you will take an impact and
something might get broken. But if you're cornered with nothing around
sometimes you have no choice."
Marc "Animal" MacYoung.
"If your are not barefooted - try stop it with sole. When striking stick will
belove waist level - parry stick near the chain with sole, close the sole,
close the gab (it will nice if you can at same time tread on nunchaku) and
then do what you can do."
From my ideas.
"Usually nunchaku are swung high and in a rythmic pattern.This leaves the
possibility of:
- striking low with a kick (watch the range of the weapon!).
- timing your strike with the motion of his weapon - I won't take
responsibility for figuring this out for you.
- who knows, maybe you could kick his hand ? Although, I wouldn't. You only
have two legs to stand on.
- protect your head while you extend one arm, reseiving a very damaging blow,
maybe if you're lucky grab the weapon arm, and then use your other weapons
(head, shoulders, other arm, legs, etc) to inflict damage which will stop
the attacker long enough for you to escape.
Byron Alley.
6) Additional suggestions.
"Shoot your opponent... Beg for mercy... Keep out of the way and wait for him
to knock himself out... "
Andy Brice.
Copyright © July 1995 Alex Levitas
alexlevi@actcom.co.il
