[Sharp Phil]

I have produced a 60-page, 1.6 megabyte PDF booklet on using the nunchaku for self-defense. It is available completely free and is not intended to promote anything (other than successful self-defense with a traditional martial arts tool). I hope you find it useful.

Right click and choose "save target as" to download the file from my personal website

While one's first impression might be that such an archaic tool has no use in contemporary self-defense, it's actually a remarkably effective, easily constructed, and surprisingly concealable and portable force multiplier.

[bamboo]

I have produced a 60-page, 1.6 megabyte PDF booklet on using the nunchaku for self-defense. It is available completely free and is not intended to promote anything (other than successful self-defense with a traditional martial arts tool). I hope you find it useful.

In regards your post and your writing of this booklet- What is your actual training beyond the book you mentioned and experience with this weapon that makes it appropriate for you to be recommending this as a weapon of choice? Some back ground would be useful so those of use that are not familiar with yourself so we can read the book with the authors credentials in mind.

You say in the PDF introduction that this is for entertainment only- do you mean to say that its a joke? I ask because every other training manual I have on the subject of martial arts make it clear (as did you) that an instructor is needed, but nowhere do they imply that its only for the amusement of the reader. This important to me.

For record- This post is not meant as an attack on you or your writing but rather some questions to find out who you are from your own words since you came here and gave us some material to peruse. We do the same to anyone. And if the whole thing is simply no more than your own personal opinion- cool, at least we know with whom we are having a discussion.

Cheers and most of all, Welcome.

Bamboo

[Sharp Phil]

I would rather you read the booklet with reality and physics in mind.

[admin]

As some of you may or may not know Sharp Phil is Phil Elmore the The Martialist: For Those Who Fight Unfairly. I have known about this site for years and reached out to Phil to exchange links and let him know about what we do here. He is a published martial arts author and self-defense / armed citizen advocate. I believe he shares many of the same views and concepts we all do, along with providing a different view on martial arts and self defense.

In regards to the booklet, I again browsed through the book and read what caught my immediate eye.

One, it is a very unique text and I don't believe I've ever seen someone address the numchucks from a real self defense perspective. I also think you do a good job of showing techniques for different scenarios and a good explanation of them.

As I was browsing this a few questions came up. One, can you tell us a little bit more about Liu Seong Gung Fu and your Sifu? How would you describe your style and teacher?
One of the others.... carrying numchucks. Maybe I missed this piece in the book. I personally cannot think of a scenario that I would carry numchucks as a personal self defense weapon. I always carry my knife, and typically use it to slice up my apples more then anything else, but I couldn't even think of trying to carry that around.
How would you carry this? WOULD you carry this? Do you advocate people carrying it over other self defense weapons?

[bamboo]

I would rather you read the booklet with reality and physics in mind.

I read your booklet and simply asked you a the same questions I ask anyone putting forth ideas, especially ones suggesting the carrying of arms, and where I live illegal ones.

I am done.

[Sharp Phil]

There's a good site here:

www.acifa.net

It contains history and other material. My instructor has a brief website here:

CHINESE/INDONESIAN/FILIPINO MARTIAL ARTS

The style is Indonesian and Chinese with considerable FMA influence. It's primarily a close-range style.

Examining the weapon and providing a tutorial on it is not its advocacy over other weapons. Rather, it is an analysis of whether the weapon remains viable, and I am contending that it is. It is simple, simply constructed, and effective when applied.

I wrote a book on using swords for self-defense, published by Paladin Press, called Street Sword. It is not the advocacy of carrying a sword over other weapons such as knives and firearms. (I carry a pistol, not a katana.) However, it does the same thing that this booklet does -- it examines whether the weapon is a viable alternative if, for whatever reason, it is what you have available.

Were I to carry nunchaku I would carry them in my waistband behind my hip or hiked up to the side, depending on whether I was sitting. I have a pistol license and live in a state where the nunchaku are not legal, so I don't even have any at home with me in this state. There will be places where the indivdiual might be able to get away with this, though not many. There will be more places where the individual could at least own a pair in order to get familiar with them. Carrying and using them would then be something of a worst-case scenario in which other more legal weapons were no longer available or simply not present at the time. One of the primary reasons I like the nunchaku is because they can be easily constructed by just about anyone, should the need arise.

[bamboo]

Thank you.

[owutera67`]

Its really useful, I have not completely read it but it seems to be very useful. Thanks for posting here.