{"id":633,"date":"2007-09-04T01:43:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T01:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=633"},"modified":"2007-09-04T01:43:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T01:43:44","slug":"633","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/633\/","title":{"rendered":"Nunchaku"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nunchaku\"Translations:<\/strong> Nunchaku<\/a> (Chinese: ???, shu?ng ji\u00e9 g\u00f9n; ???, li?ng ji\u00e9 g\u00f9n “Dual Section Staff”; ???, \u00e8r ji\u00e9 g\u00f9n “Two Section Staff”; Japanese: ????? nunchaku; ???, sh?shikon “Boatman’s staff”; ???, s?usetsukon “Paired sections staff”; ???, “Two section staff”)<\/p>\n

A nunchaku or nunchucks is a martial arts weapon of the kobudo weapons set and consists of two sticks connected at their ends with a short chain or rope. The other Kobudo weapons are the sai, tonfa, bo, eiku, tekko, tinbe-rochin, surujin, and kama. A san-jet-gun or san-set-sukon or 3 sectional staff is a similar weapon with three sticks attached on chains instead of two (see our coverage of this weapon here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Nunchakus were popular weapons in both Chinese and Japanese cultures. The Chinese nunchaku are typically round whereas the Japanese are octagonal. Like so many things in Asian history patience was involved in creating a pair of nunchakus. The hardwood, typically oak, loquat or pasania, would be submerged in mud for several years to harden the wood. In the mud there is no oxygen which causes decay and the acidity was optimal for seasoning and hardening the wood.<\/p>\n

But to truely appreciate the use of the nunchaku is to see someone using a pair. Now most people asscoiate the nunchaku with Bruce Lee, however we thought it more appropriate to feature a video of a regular guy practicing with his nunchakus. This video shows how impressive using the nunchakus can be with practice…enjoy…
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Translations: Nunchaku (Chinese: ???, shu?ng ji\u00e9 g\u00f9n; ???, li?ng ji\u00e9 g\u00f9n “Dual Section Staff”; ???, \u00e8r ji\u00e9 g\u00f9n “Two Section Staff”; Japanese: ????? nunchaku; ???, sh?shikon “Boatman’s staff”; ???, s?usetsukon “Paired sections staff”; ???, “Two section staff”) A nunchaku or nunchucks is a martial arts weapon of the kobudo weapons set and consists of two Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weapons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}