If the movements are not coordinated, what's the use of being fast? Fast, accurate, hard, fast is only part of it. It can be seen that you should just practice a stick for a long time, but you must stick to it.
Now to answer your question, I think the wooden stick is the most suitable for practicing at ordinary times. The quality of nunchakus mass-produced on the market now is not very good. If you can, you can make one yourself. The material should be wax wood or rosewood. Because the weight of wooden nunchakus is relatively uniform, it is suitable for practicing strength, and its weight and feel are also most suitable for practice. Of course, it is ok to practice the heavy steel stick occasionally, and the change of feel will also help your skills. There is also a performance steel bar, which is very light in weight. Very suitable for practicing stick flower. You can try it, it will enhance your interest. Probably, the world price of this kind of performance steel bar is about 30~40 yuan dollars.
In addition: (This is my idea about nunchakus practice written a few years ago, I hope it will help you)
My opinion on the practice method of nunchakus
"Tao is impermanent", as we ancients said. This sentence has also become the truth recognized by our vast number of martial arts lovers. I think this is especially true for the club friends who practice nunchakus.
There is no fixed training method for nunchakus, and everyone has different training methods. Although our ultimate goal is the same, as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome, and we should not blame others from our own perspective. Therefore, I just want to explain my methods and ideas of practicing nunchakus in recent years and my views on practicing nunchakus. I hope that the majority of martial arts lovers and stick masters can correct their mistakes!
It is estimated that Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's army never imagined that the chained stick (big panlong stick) they used to sweep the horse's legs would become a magical weapon-nunchakus. Another way of saying it is that nunchakus evolved from the flail stick, an early agricultural tool. )
Nunchaku is a soft weapon, which makes it more difficult to train than other conventional weapons. It is difficult for beginners to control the stick well, so that they often accidentally hit themselves and get hurt.
Generally speaking, nunchakus attack methods are chopping, picking, sweeping, hitting and so on. Each kind of nunchakus can be obtained from different directions. These nunchakus are more conventional, and some are less conventional and difficult to control, such as smashing sticks and twisting sticks. In this way, nunchakus attack more ways.
Nowadays, many nunchakus beginners are very keen on various methods to change nunchakus, which is considered to be the basis of nunchakus. Some busybodies have given these sports many beautiful names, such as "Su Qin's sword-lifting" and "Mountain-climbing". Here, I'm not saying that beginners shouldn't practice these movements. My intention is just to point out that friends who have just come into contact with nunchakus should not be limited by these actions that are rarely used in practice, and ignore the true essence of nunchakus.
Speaking of the essence of nunchakus, I personally think it refers to the four most basic attack methods that we often use in actual combat-chopping, picking, sweeping and hitting. Why do you say that? We know that no matter what kind of boxing or weapon, its ultimate significance and mystery lies in the flexible and ingenious use of "force". The combination of stick technique and strength of nunchakus is the charm of nunchakus. Because of its unique structure, its power mode is unique among all kinds of weapons, and it also lays the most important position among the four attack modes pointed out above in nunchaku method.
Actions in actual combat are different from some actions used in performances, such as stick flowers. If we want to compare the positions of these four basic movements, I think it is very similar to the magical internal strength described in our martial arts novels. When we say that a person is good at kung fu, we don't mean that he knows how many moves and routines. To judge a person's skill level, the most important thing is to see whether his internal strength is profound. If we let this person clap, we should see how much energy it contains and how much it can play for the other side. Therefore, we can easily find that the best way to reflect a person's nunchaku level is to observe the four most basic movements. If you want to know a person's mastery of nunchakus, you can do this and let the other person wave the stick naturally and casually. For example, if you let him do a horizontal chopping action, you can observe the quality of the stick from his eyes, expression, coordination of various parts of his body to the surprise sound when chopping the stick. This also directly reflects this person's stick skill level.
In my opinion, the ultimate state of practicing nunchakus is to experience the various powers of nunchakus through constant practice and application. At different stages of practicing nunchakus, one's understanding of nunchakus strength is different. This will be a process of gradually improving the stick method and making the strength more perfect. Bruce Lee also emphasized the shortest straight line between two points in Jeet Kune Do. Now that we know the location of the destination, we should go straight to the destination without detours and detours. In this way, when we practice nunchakus from the beginning, we should lock in the final realm-strength. Make progress through constant experience and improve through constant actual combat.
One trick is worth a thousand tricks. Allusions that can explain this truth in history are not uncommon. When practicing nunchakus, we must refine these four basic movements and carry them on indefinitely. "Ten steps to kill a person, a thousand miles away", an unknown person in the movie "Hero", can kill people within ten steps after practicing sword for ten years. It can be seen that his fencing is still good. On the other hand, although Ku Mozhi, a Tibetan Buddhist in "Eight Dragons", is skilled in martial arts, all the martial arts he learned are very complicated, and all of them have a little knowledge, which eventually leads to his addiction to computers, loss of skills and almost death.
Learn from other martial arts, experience and integrate your own moves, so that each move can be transformed into various forces. For example, it is also a stick, but experts can usually exert their strength from different points on the path of this stick. A stick is like a stick in your hand. You are free to do whatever you want.
At this point, some friends will ask, although this is true, in practice, what kind of process should we go through as beginners and what should we pay attention to?
Then I want to say that the training of nunchakus, like all training, pays attention to step by step and cannot be aggressive. Now, for the convenience of explanation, I personally divide nunchaku training into three stages:
1, the most basic action of stick-the source of all methods;
2. The learning of club skills-a shortcut to improvement;
3. Stick drill-enter the ladder of the master.
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