nunchucks

[jamaldog87]

I know this is not a knives or other Edged Weapon but i did not know were to post it.  I have many knives and  other Edged Weapons but i keep some nunchucks above my bad for home weapon.  How well would nunchuck make for a weapon if i had to use them on a person?  there hardwood and i used them on water jugs and a watermelon and it broke  both of them.

[Bigeasy]

I would think their effectiveness would be dependent on your skill in using them.  Your question brought up a funny memory of a friend of mine back in high school who thought he was the second coming of Bruce Lee.  He had a pair, and ended up knocking out his own front teeth with them.  That was a real entertainment value..

Larry

[Old Syko]

I would think their effectiveness would be dependent on your skill in using them.  Your question brought up a funny memory of a friend of mine back in high school who thought he was the second coming of Bruce Lee.  He had a pair, and ended up knocking out his own front teeth with them.  That was a real entertainment value..

Larry

We must have had similar friends.     Guy I went to school with gave himself a skull fracture and serious concussion.  I laughed myself sick!

Like everything else, if you have enough serious experience with them they might work.  I still think I would keep the range to under a hundred yards though.   

[GRIMJIM]

I used to be pretty good with them once upon a time. I practiced with rubber ones though before I used the real ones.

As has been said, if you have enough expewrience with them they would makew a fine defensive weapon. If you don't you'll probably be the one that gets hurt.

[jamaldog87]

I just play with them when i can. I have never hit myself with them but i can hit stuff out of the air with them.

[Casull]

I guess they're better than nothing (unless you hit yourself), but if I was going to use a stick for self defense, I'd rather have a 5 ft. hickory staff.

[drdougrx]

Can't tell you how many swollen elbows I had as a kid....seemed everytime I got them up to warp speed and got them to spin around my back and around my neck then over my sholder and SMACK...the inside of the elbow.  Pretty sure I smacked my lower jaw once or twice as well.  I still have them though...both pairs are made of rose wood...one with nylon cords and the other with chains. 

[GRIMJIM]

I smacked the inside of mine a couple of times too.

That's when I got the weighted rubber coated oned. They didn't hurt as much and when I finally went to regular chucks they were much lighter and I could really get them whizzing.

[mcwoodduck]

One of the guys at millitary shcool had a pair and was spinning them around and around showing off.  i was on my way to lacrosse practice.
Since he was in the alcove by the door and would not let me pass i inserted my D stick into them and everything stopped.
at that time I figured a good long stick would be better.
They do have a mechanical advantage over a stick with the whip effect but i think i would rather have a Lacrosse stick or a staff.
Better to keep an attacker away.  Chucks being a foot and my D stick being 6 feet.  and only realy leathal when spun
A staff / walking stick being about 4-5 feet and about 3/4 of an inch thick
even a broom stick or shovel handle would be better.
even a good base ball bat is 3'  But that is more of a swinging tool than a poking one.

[Joel]

This doesn't really belong here...my computer's been down for 8 days and I am now just up.  I'm not going to delete it, because it's generated some good replies, but  let's keep the discussion on sharp things guys.

[Casull]

Ok, a 5 foot hickory staff, with a sharpened end.   

[mcwoodduck]

Ok, a 5 foot hickory staff, with a sharpened end.   

A staff with one of the cold steel bushman slid on it.
Now we have an edge.   
A hewing spear.  Like an ICKTHA.  the Short Zulu stabbing and swinging spear.  An Irish hewing spear, or German leaf spear.
The short stick with a long blade can act as a spear or two handed sword giving you more options than a segmented club.
You are also in a confind space that may not allow you swing it.  and with the sound the chuckes make, it is not an ambush weapon.
If you have someone breaking in your house you do not want them to know what you have and where you are.
A spear can be a fast poke to the head, body or neck and multiple pokes can be made in the same time as a single swing with a club or sword.
There are many reasons why a spear and pikes remained in the age of swords. And the pole axe was so feared and is still in our vocabulary.
He went down as if POLE AXED.  Not "bludgened", not "sworded", not "chucked" but a a deadly multipurpose spear that has remained in the day of firearms.  The Pope is still guarded with these. 

[jamaldog87]

the nunchucks i keep near my bad as a "less lethal'' weapon.  Now my heavy machete which is near by  now that a weapn. I got the cheap thing for cutting back some weed and brush and every day the thing show me what it can do. I try to break it wood and even hit a rock one time with it, it still here.   

[HL]

Just make sure you are not the only one bringing nunchucks to a gun fight! 

[simplicity]

LOL I love these posts I've never been into this section of the forums. Ok most folks growing up like myself and others posts using nunchucks club themselfs really good  trying to do what they do in the movies and or moves that are flashy. Nunchucks properly used are a very close range weapon and very effective  but just like shooting most guns all comes down to the user of it. All the swinging you see in the movies is useless, all the things you see where they are flipping them under or over the ares are made to deflect shots so they do have somwhat use. Inside a hallway with someoen that knew how to use them someone with a knife or a staff would have a hard time defending against them. Nuchucks in a hallways  verse a shotgun or handgun well I think we all know what happens the nunchucks hitting the floor drowns out the sound of the shell casing hitting the floor. Just my two cents from exsperience.

[Spirithawk]

Simplicity is quite correct, as someone actually trained in their use I can tell you that they can be very deadly, as a close combat weapon, without ever spinning them.

[jamaldog87]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/08/2056913/man-fends-of-intruder-with-nunchucks.html


The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. -- Authorities say a man at a Tampa hotel fended off an armed intruder with a pair of nunchucks. Police say 37-year-old Paul Sutter went to the man's room at the Tampa Lodge on Monday evening and demanded $40 the man owed him. Police say the man refused, so Sutter got a gun and forced his way into the room. Police say the man grabbed the nunchucks and hit Sutter in the ear.  Officers responded and charged Sutter with robbery-home invasion. He was being held on $50,000 bail

I just had to post this cuase it happen in the bay area were i live.  Long live the mall ninja.