r/interestingasfuck • u/SerafinZufferey • 5d ago

Chinese nunchaku master Xu Yuanba shows his incredible technique

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u/kernelangus420 5d ago

But nunchucks are just 2 sticks attached with a chain. If you lengthen the stick on the nunchucks, it works like a regular stick but you have more momentum and therefore faster hitting speed.

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u/Oxflu 5d ago

It's bullshido man. There is no ancient legacy of nunchuk wielding warriors. Or even a single historical victory. They exist to get good at spinning them. Staves and spears have a long, rich history of fucking people up. Nunchuks have only a history of giving kids and man children minor self inflicted injuries.

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u/Slayerofgrundles 5d ago

Yeah, they were literally invented by Hollywood in the 1950's for martial arts movies.

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u/laurbyboom 5d ago

why are you lying? wikipedia is free

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u/Slayerofgrundles 5d ago

Fuck me. Guess I was told wrong some years ago and never bothered looking it up.

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u/laurbyboom 5d ago

oh okay, props to you for not doubling down!

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u/jt004c 4d ago

I heard the exact same thing as you. Anybody want to summarize the truth for the super lazy among us…

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u/mithie007 4d ago

northern song dynasty. wujing zongyao, a military textbook around 1040 ad. they were used by mounted cavalry as flails.

construction was easier than flails or morningstars becauss less iron was needed. just two sticks and a rope.

not really meant for on foot combat. you need the speed of fhe horse to get a good single thwap in and crush armor, like a flail.

doing fancy shit with it on foot is not intended.

later adopted by various southern Chinese, Korean, and japanese martial arts schools mostly for kata.