Thursday, July 30, 2015

Sword & Nunchuck Tricks

Many tricks can be performed with swords and nunchucks.


Swords and nunchucks are weapons used in a diversity of martial arts styles. Ninjas were celebrated for their proficient adoption of both weapons, and divers sword types admit played fundamental roles in both military and martial-art applications. Facund participation and familiarity are needed to mature proficient at either weapon. Keep your sword in its sheath at your hip. Throw the apple straight up in the air in front of you. As it falls and reaches shoulder height, pull the sword from its sheath and follow through in one swipe to slice the apple in half as it drops. For safety reasons, no one should be within a five foot radius of you as you demonstrate this trick, more than that if your blade is longer.



Once that proficiency is reached, tricks can be done to illustrate means and faculty.

Apple Slice

The apple slice is an efficacious habitude to flash state and coordination with the sword while likewise demonstrating the sharpness of your blade. Practice makes perfect so buy a lot of apples and practice in your backyard before demonstrating it in front of anyone. This also works with tomatoes, but creates more of a mess.


Nunchuck Toss


Nunchucks are two sticks that are connected by a chain. The user holds onto one stick and uses it to control the other stick through the chain. It is a very useful striking weapon from mid-range. Once you are familiar with the basic swings and strikes of the weapon, you can add in flashier techniques such as tosses. While the nunchuck is spinning, you can flip your wrist and release it. The momentum of the second stick will propel the weapon into the air, giving you time to throw a punch, kick or some other technique before catching it as it heads toward the ground. As you get better at it, you can work in tosses under the leg and catches behind the back.


Sword Catch


This is best practiced with a long staff until you have the motion down, and then you can work with the sword. The sword catch involves tossing the sword into the air so it rotates and then catching it by the handle as it comes back down toward you. It has no practical application in sword fighting but the trick is entertaining in sword demonstrations. If you do a behind the back toss and catch, the secret is to keep the sword close to your body so you can keep track of it as it rotates to make sure you grab the handle and not the blade portion when it falls into your hand.