Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01161

Tonight was my last Nunchaku Class. America’s Best Defense offered an adult Pro-Tech class in Nunchuks and I have always wanted to try them out. I remember that a friend of mine from grade school was into karate and he had a pair. Apparently they are illegal in MA outside of formal training or something like that. It is a bit ridiculous that they are illegal but they are in MA, but not Rhode Island.

Probably the one person who so popularized these weapons was Bruce Lee. He often used them in his movies and he was amazingly skilled with them. In the 80’s we had the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Michelangelo using them as his weapon of choice. So, as a kid seeing nunchuks being whipped around with skill was exciting. I’d always wanted to be able to move them skillfully. I took the class and after 6 weeks of using them I am more skilled than I was before. So going from not at all skilled to slightly skilled is a good step. I have my own pair now to practice with and will keep working the form that I was taught and try and learn other maneuvers with them. The class was fun and definitely outside my area of skill. I have much more respect for the kids in Andy’s class and Andy himself who can use the nunchuks more easily than I can.