Showing posts with label traditional karate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional karate. Show all posts

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Nunchaku - Learn from a Qualified Instructor, or buy lots of Ice.


Nunchaku
- one of my favorite Okinawan farming tools! If you decide to learn to use one, don't just be a farmer, be a farmer in overalls while learning to use the tool correctly!

The few schools in the Phoenix Valley that teach this tool usually have little expertise and charge an arm and a leg to teach how to swing the sticks and often people end up with bruises. If you are learning to use nunchaku with a pair of glow lights attached to a cord, my recommendation would be to search for a new sensei and school because you are likely in the wrong place.

Nunchaku is more or less thought to be indigenous to Okinawa, and thus many Shorin-Ryu karate schools teach this weapon along with karate. At our school, we teach this weapon in both kata and in self-defense. Come join our friendly Okinawan and Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert farmers - we would love to meet you. Our hombu dojo unfortunately closed during the international plandemic, but we very recently reopened in a smaller dojo in Mesa (July, 2025). Just contact Sokeshodai@yahoo.com for information on location, times, etc..

For those who need to repair or restrict some nunchaku, I recommend checking with Karate Mart - they have a good video on the tools and method for restringing. 

Hanshi Adam, PhD, 9th dan, demonstrates hillbilly
kobudo at the Arizona Hombu. And yes, this are corn-cob
nunchaku from Nebraska!


Soke Hausel and other black belts demonstrate kobudo at International
Students Day, University of Wyoming.
 

Training in kata at the Hombu in Mesa, Arizona