BabaBooey moment

The only way to finally settle this is a physical duel. Shad with a stick, and you with nunchucks.

I want to see a person who knows martial art with nunchucks vs a guy with a stick and does HEMA. That would be a more fair comparison.

Military Close Combat Instructor here, I am not a professional in Martial Arts or anything, but I have to say that knife fight was ludicrous. Such a fight would never transpire. No one comes at you with a knife ready to spar. You keep it concealed, you get close and then go on stabbing without pause or relent until the opponent is down. Will a nunchuck help you then? If you are not ready probably not. if he is less than 6 steps away it's hard to draw your pistol in time. Is that a critique on the nunchuck? No, no weapon will be ideal here. If he starts stabbing only protective gear will aid, and you can hopefully shoot or slap him off afterwards. No weapon will aid you here. In general too the nunchuck, I can't see it practical in actual combat, but that is cause I always evaluate things with a soldiers mind: Can I use that tired, with a 30kg backpack, a vest and my rifle dangling about. BUt in a streetfight? I can't judge, no experience with them. I honestly believe that someone that trained like you will kick my ass with it no problem. The respect thing... Idk, I am not sure. I respect my weapons, but I guess handling rifles and machine guns is different. I don't have a martial arts mindset at all too, and never really did it. Military fighting is just dirty tricks and no elegence. There is only the intent to not be killed. So... it is much more dirty by default, and just pragmatic

I know this is an older video, but I do like your defence of Nunchucks. Since, although they are illegal in my country. I believe they are an excellent non-lethal self defense weapon. As well, they are an excellent piece of equipment, that helps in training reflex and coordination. Any, nice video.

Very good video! I played around with nunchucks for a month and it was not hard at all to learn the basics. Honestly the way you control the flow of weight feels quite natural.

Your vids are good mate. While i do agree with Shad, i respect your opinion and skill. Btw those sai are badass, could you do a demo with those?

I am wondering what it would be like to block the Nunckuck. Let's say you have a Baton or Shad's girthy stick, is it realistic to block nunchuck strikes, or is it too fast/deceptive? And if a strike is blocked, how easy is the recovery for the nunchuck user? I could imagine that it would throw me off pretty hard if the strike is stopped preemptively, but someone who is trained might have no issues with that. Would you run into trouble if the stick intercepts the Nunchuck at the chain, since it would cause it to wrap around?

Good balance of professionalism and memes, will be interesting to see this saga continue. Also kinda surprised you didn't include gun as example of self defense weapon without defensive capacity, is it because of its lethality?

That point about not overswinging is so important!! Not only for when you miss, but also to not lose control to defend yourself from an attack if the opponent attempted to strike at the same time, was not instantly incapacitated or if you’re fighting multiple people!! It’s important to train that basic habit because it is always much more useful to have it than not. Besides there’s a point of force in which the power becomes irrelevant. If it gets the job done, that’s enough force and the unpredictability of the weapon and other factors will grant more advantages to a weapon in its use against a real opponent. Weapons aren’t just in a competition on which can whack the hardest, they are used in many more dimensions in active combat. Great vid!!

Can't wait for your Nunckuck tutorials 🔥

Keep up the great videos. I don’t have a opinion either way with regard to this topic. I just like watching for the learning and different points of view.

nice response, nice tecnique, great edits, great video. What is your base martial art? i just came here from Skall´s channel, i´m gonna watch some more

I watched Wushu Engineer's video and it only solidifies Shad's argument IMO. I think Shad's argument over why the nunchuks are crap is because anything it can do, a simple stick can do the same w/o the limitations of nunchuks (such as getting hit with it if you don't use it properly) as seen in Wushu Engineer's video. Now, I actually want to learn how to use nunchuks properly to see for myself its effectiveness and then I'll know. I only have limited experience w/ martial arts w/ arnis being the one that stuck to me because of how simple & applicable it is, at least to me.

Oh, Skallagrim mentioned this video! Actually that's how I came here now. I'm glad both he and you made these videos because I was a bit overly commited to Shad's side.

HEMA is a martial art, in literally means Historical, European, Martial, Arts, so if you are considering only the martial arts of east asia in your explanation you should poit it out.

Keep them coming and I'll keep watching. This back and forth with Shad is entertaining.

Watching this back again, just realized, the knife you split was made of solid oak, wow broken in two with one strike, not even forward hand. I don't think people understand, when you get hit with these, there's a reason they sting that bad and cause such serious bruising with the slightest impact.

Can't wait to see your tutorials. I wish I had more time to train like I use to in my youth.

Do you have a link for the foam nunchucks you use?

I think that other than nunchaku's and sticks' momentum and force the only other things to consider are ease of use, and matchups against other weapons. For ease of use, it is a more challenging weapon to use, so for an untrained person I think most will agree that the stick is a better weapon. However, if we consider trained individuals, I believe that they would be similar in terms of utility. As you stated the impact to your hand wil be reduced. This means it would be harder to be disarmed, but someome trained with a stick/sticks should be able to mitigate this risk in the same way that someone trained in nunchaku have a very low chance of erroneous knockback. If for some reason you were disarmed, the nunchaku's learning curve is an advantage, because of the opponent's inability to use your weapon. In terms of match ups, the nunckuck has the advantage in telegraphing powerful moves, but you can thrust with a stick. The ability to beat away other weapons defensively is easier with a stick. I think that in trained stick vs trained nunchuk, stick would win most of the time, but nunchuck vs metal knuckles or knives or fists is better than stick vs any of those. I saw someone point out that obtaining control of the opponent's stick is significantly easier than with nunchaku and I think that disarming is very important in a street fight/self defense situation.

Its a little disingenuous to say Shad won't respond to Wushu Engineer when Shad actually told people to go watch his videos.

This video was just as good as your first one, but just putting a suggestion out there if you ever get the chance you should try to spar with someone that is experienced in knife combat because I think that would definitely show just how effective BOTH weapons can be

Is it better a nunchaku made with the rope or with the chain and why? Did you chopped your nunchaku? Thanks

Your main advantage in the fight is your extended reach, not the nunchucks itself. Give your opponend an equally long weapon.

Yeah you are back 🔥

Interesting. I guess the memes were what took so long. Happy to be subbed.

10:27 I actually really like this point, because it actually shows something that appears alot in medieval martial arts aswell. In HEMA, a single, simple body adjustment allows for a completely different strike and or block or parry or what have you. And, as an outsider to alot of this, simply looking in on it out of an interest in history, I've noticed that alot of European and Asian martial arts are actually very similar, more specifically what I'm referring to is weapon based Martial arts, like swordsmanship. And this is only I think, because of biomechanics. Our bodies can only do so much, and so the weapons we create are usually limited by that. So movements and techniques actually end up becoming very similar without even trying, as does weapon development, like the case of the European long sword, and the Japanese katana. Anyway, just an observation I've made.

2:55 If anyone is curious that clip is from an old Collegehumor video called Shamwow guy in jail

Im disappointed in shadiversity's subs you earned a subscribe from us. One point shad did point out if i remember right is nunchucks need training where a simple stick doesn't. Also isn't i possible with facing a stick welding attacker the strike for the middle of your weapon which could disarm you. Shad also looks at a weapon in a battle sense also the ease of use. nunchucks really lose all there power against an armored target where a stick you can strike and poke. ill give you this impressive skills with them. your approaching this as an expert of the weapon shad is approaching as a novice. both of you are right at the same time. keep up the good work sorry more shadiversity people didn't sub.

A test of weapon should be done with a spar like any other martial arts, you can use a nunchuck while shad use a stick

Nice video, good job. I am a fellow nun-chucker, used them my whole life. I sure wish I knew where I could get my hands on those aluminum chain chucks you flashed a photo of. Please point me in the right direction, I wish I could have a pair of those!

3:40. basically nunchuks has more force on the point of impact but loose most of the force after that while sticks you can carry the force and apply the weight of your body into it

"shad is bad with weapons therefore he is wrong" is an ad-hominem attack not a debunking to his argument saying "the weapon doesn't have issues if you have skill with it" doesn't debunk him either because a main point to shad's argument is that the skill requirement just to not harm yourself and use it effectively is too high compared to similar weapons

The major shit show with his videos is his bias. Let’s start with the claim “The nunchuck is useless” He then demonstrates some REALLLY pathetic swings, to the point I don’t believe they’re genuine swings at all in attempt to use the weapon as inefficiently as possible to paint it in a negative light. Then, when shown by martial artists with the nunchuck how hard they can hit he uses a motte and Bailey argument where he’s retreating from his first claim of “they’re terrible useless weapons” to an argument of “oh well it takes time to train with these and a stick doesn’t! So the stick is better because ANYONE can pick up a stick and use them effectively!” Now my problem with that is…no they can’t. For the ONE video he shown of some burglar with nunchucks getting rushed I can show him 10 of people with baseball bats (aka big stick) getting rushed and not using it properly. His new introduction of a “anyone should be able to use it effectively” standard is wrong. Because a totally untrained non fighter with ANY weapon is utterly shit. Spears, flails, and actually a lot of the time, swords! These would all be useless to a guy bum rush charging them. By this standard I’d say the only good weapons ever is knives and guns.

may i know what martial arts your background is in.

10:22 If you're that close and the opponent is trying to close the gap, might I suggest stiff arming them and chucking at their knee caps. They will be a lot less aggressive on the ground, unable to walk, with shattered knees.

The back and forth you have going on with Shad is really informative. I'd like to see you do more vids.

I have to say, you still haven't convinced me but that couldn't stop me from not enjoying the video. I think I'll stick around for a while. Love the friendly rivalry you guys have by the way. It's refreshing when these types of response videos don't turn into all out internet wars.

I have never actually seen nunchucks in actual sparring before, so i thought they were basically useless. I think i might buy a pair now! That shit's fuckin scary! Edit: Hey shad fans, i know shad (according to you guys) said "stick better genrally because of defense ". I wanna point out that nobody even cares because why would you? Shad was still wrong about most everything he said, demonstrated by this video, and honestly that's a bad take anyways. Weapons are made for specific purposes, and nunchucks excell at what they're made for. It's pedantic and weird to say that a stick is better than nunchucks because it has defense. I don’t know if you noticed, but it's awfully easy to hit somebody in the head with nunchucks, and it's not easy to know where your opponent is going to hit at any given point in time. AND nunchucks can hit you past your guard because they flop around. Please, just think twice about harassing somebody on the internet because you don’t like their jointed sticks.

Love you milani, good sport, and glad to have another voice contributing to the loose online community of martial arts and weapons

Great video but riddle me this; Two people get into a fight, one with wooden nunchucks and the other with a wooden mace. They have spent roughly the same amount of time training with their choice of weapon.They have roughly the same skill level with their weapon of choice. Neither of them have armour or shields. Both of them have enough room to do any and all moves they could with their weapon of choice. How does this fight play out?

For anyone interested, I think this is the Wushu Engineer video referred to: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/idaAppOcmczej3k.html

7:00 You gotta get that guy some proper gear, he's gonna get a broken nose. 😂 Something I do notice in this exchange though that even with this fella's clear hesitance likely due to proper protection, he does still manage to make contact or near contact with you, so he does close the distance very quickly even with you swinging at him. Which, I mean, if you know anything about modern self defense, you'll know one of the biggest talking points is always the guy with the knife will always close the distance to the guy with the gun. So im not at all surprised that he's still able to hit you, or at least get close. People who have trained on and used guns as apart of their jobs for years will tell you that a guy with a knife can and WILL close that distance quickly and get himself in stabbing range. Guns are just, patently better than most ancient weapons. At least modern guns. And that's why I use this example. Because if a gun can have it's distance closed so quickly, and it has infinitely more range than the nunchucks, obviously a guy with a knife is going to close the distance to someone with nunchucks. Moreover the gun and the nunchuk are actually comparable for this instance, no, not in their effectiveness, obviously one is better, but in that both create range between you and your attacker. Both create a sense of unease on approach. Both are intimidating. Both may cause hesitation. And both, similarly, have issues with closing the distance, in that someone determined enough to do so, will almost always reach you before you can reach them, or at least at the same time as you're able to. Very vool video dude! :D Though I do have other criticisms, but I get the feeling it may not matter to you. Because I don't have experience using nunchucks, you may even discount my comparisons earlier. Though I do in fact have experience using firearms. I've been doing that on and off on various ranges since I was about 12 years old. It's really fun. Anyway, I only say this because even in this video you see to still hold to this idea that experience discounts observation. Which in some cases, experience might discount observation. But let me ask you something. If I was to say the sky was purple, would you believe me? Probably not. Why? Well because you can look outside and see the sky is blue and not purple. And so can I. Will that observation become invalid without any extensive knowledge of why the sky is blue, or will the sky simply just always be blue? Experience is valuable, but it isn't everything.

well i mean. that fight against the knife dude wasn't really fair or realistic imho. he had no idea of what he was doing and was outranged... i mean. try that again but the knife guy has the INTENT to stab you. he will just run at you and go stabby stabby stabby. you will get maybe one blow and then he is in grappling range, then chucks pretty useless and you are dead. that's what i always disliked about martial arts. there is so many of this bullshit "what can you do against an attacker with a knife". and then they show some bullcrap how they disarm them while the attacker does everything to be disarmed standing there like your target dummies but they don't attack. this shit doesn't work like that in real life. and tbh i hate and despise that. it's stupid dangerous and potentially deadly advice and stupid to even think of trying that. YOU ONLY FIGHT IF YOU CAN'T RUN AND IT'S YOUR LAST AND ONLY OPTION. if someone really has intend to stab you he will come at you and you will most likely not even know that he has a knife until it's deep inside your flesh. but even if you really would end up in a situation where the guy stands in front of you with his knife and you with your chucks. do you think they dance around like that as if they were fencing? if the opponent wants to kill you he will run into your chucks with the one arm and stab with the other. if you don't manage to knock him out cold with that one maybe two blows you can land then you are dead dude. please stay realistic.

I did martial arts when I was a kid, didn't continue the artform because of a crippling injury. Your content is very engaging to watch, I really enjoyed the back and forth between you and the other content creators here. I'm excited to see something else come out of this channel. It's pretty cool stuff.

"Not everything has to be a Claymore." Love that line. XD "This is not pseudo science. This is base level physics." Help! I'm dying. XD O.O That strike on the knife. Damn Son! Nice job! I am glad I found your channel through Shad. You are definitely the best thing I got out of Shad's, frankly, ridiculous bashing on this weapon.

Got into this little back and forth debate recently. Glad that I came in now to see this upload so early! Seeing both sides, I think you both make really good points. I definitely wouldn't go for nunchaku as my first choice for self-defence, because as Shad said, it's very easy to injure yourself. However, as you've pointed out, they can pack a punch and are easy to conceal if you've trained with them well. Shad argued that you can conceal a stick easily, but because that does not fold, it's definitely not the same. If I was trying to hide a weapon, I'd have a much easier time hiding nunchaku than I would hiding a sai of the same length. And on the topic of injuring yourself...You can definitely hurt yourself with a "stick", although the risk is lower compared to nunchaku. Had a guy in my karate class swing his bo staff really hard with both hands closer to one end. The shorter end closer to him struck him in the gut and left a really nasty bruise. He wasn't incompetent by any means, just got too reckless. I think nunchaku are past their prime now. They were definitely useful at a time where farmers needed to fight with whatever they had, while also not being obvious. Now, without these restrictions, there are definitely better options than nunchaku. But this does not make them trash. By this logic, all weapons that are not firearms are "garbage". These weapons were created to best suit the era and circumstances they were made in. Swords are not "garbage" just because they pale in comparison to firearms in terms of range and lethality. Debate aside and to end this on a positive note, looking forward to see more of your content! I quit karate roughly 4 years ago to focus on art, but I still have my bo and sais in the closet. Seeing these videos makes me miss my old dojo...It would be nice to practice again!

Most of the points brought up by (I assume your name is Cooper based on what was said in the beginning) are very interesting. Imperfect but interesting. I must also say that demo in breaking the red oak knife by accident is genuinely impressive. However, I will say I STRONGLY disagree with the whole "we shouldn't throw weapons on the ground because it disrespects the culture" thing. The example given of a student being unable to carry the full weight of a katana being just ground for the sensei to scold him is disgusting. Lord forbid the sensei ensure the student can carry the thing first and gaslight the student over his (the teacher's) short sightedness. The sad part is it's not JUST in martial arts this occurs, but in all aspects of Japan's society. From having everyone be conditioned to be exactly the same and empathizing success over the pursuit of personal joy, it's no wonder that suicide rates are high and birth-rates are so extremely low in Japan right now. Modern youth cannot properly develop in this kind of mentality and cultural norms do not justify it. The only reason this mentality exists in Japan at all is because the nation wants to be bigger than it (honestly) has any right to be. Lot of movies from Japan suggest they view themselves as the center of the world and intend to prove the impossible because of it. At a social cost. If Japan doesn't wisen up, it'll someday be gone. Do yourself a favor Cooper, don't be sucked into that subconscious desire Japan has to prove it's the best when it is not. I'm not saying we ought to disrespect Japan on purpose, but ALWAYS examine the motives behind a tradition. While this topic is not at all involved in faith, I think Jesus Christ said it best "He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’ then that person need not honor the father. So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God." (Matthew 15:3-6 KJV). A tradition or item is NOT more important than love for your fellow man. A lesson modern Japan is in SORE need of. God bless you and looking forward to seeing more content from you.

I know you’re probably busy with life but I would like to see more videos like tutorials, like how to strike with nunchucks properly.

Only one way to solve this! Weapons sparring!

you feel a lot like a younger paul harrel but for martial arts content. Love it

Anyone even care what that guy even says…. great video!!!

I love your editing, I want you to be big on youtube one day.

I've seen yours and the Shad videos on this topic. I have to say your content and real world rationale and demonstration of technique gives more "bang for the buck"! Keep up the good work. I hope to see more videos!

After watching videos from both sides, I have some thoughts. Nunchucks can be useful in the right hands. That spar at 7:00 show that. But it requires training to use. Stick is stick. Stick is simple. Stick anyone can use, and doesn't need the 16 years to be as good as you with nunchucks. If there was a zombie apocalypse outside, and I had to to take Only one weapon, and my choices were nunchucks and stick, I'll take stick. Nunchucks require training. Stick does not. This whole thing is like Batman Vs Superman. If batman had the time to prepare, yes he can win. But in an on the stop fight, it's obvious who will win.

I'm on your side . Shad have no idea what he talking about and clearly cant fight for shit. :D.

me, a gun person, knowing dang well ill never pick up any melee other than a karambit: interesting

i had a friend who said nunchucks is not realistic and i immediately knew he watched shads videos. I told him thats not true and most of the things shad said was bullshit. So we decided to have a sparring match after lockdown

Soundtrack 6:22 ???

There you go.

I was scrolling for videos and this was in my recommended. Oh boy, here we go again. On wards brothers and sisters! Onwards to the storm! Onwards through the fires and hail! Press on, for today we watch as the war is rekindled once more! The flames rises once more and we stand before it, popcorn and drinks at the ready to view the battle that rages before us! Watch on! Watch on! Watch on for the glory of the Algorithm!

Great video, i really like the part where you broke the knife.

Great Vid! Unfortunately hidden by the KZfaq algorithm, this needs and deserves a lot more views ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The biggest problem i find with this whole thing is Shad's "Objective" scale when it comes to weapons, and to an extent, martial arts* by his scale, due to ease of training the WW2 battle rifle would come on top of a Modern 202X advanced systems assault rifle cause one's easier to learn *especially with his blatant disregard for non-European "thinking" when it comes to these

2:56, "One stab, flesh wound. Two stabs, dead" What is that from? lol

Anything is better than nothing, and anybody with sane mind who is not confident in his skill with a weapon will not take it unless he has to. Hearing both sides of this debate, I lean toward the universal answer: everything is subjective and situational. Give an idiot a pair of nunchucks and he will hurt himself just as much as with other weapons, I seen some ridiculous stuff ppl have done to themselves (my young self included) using swords, axes, staves, just about anything.

Nice response...unfortunately, youtube algorithm hid this video from me until I actually searched for it. Funny thing about the "bouncing off the opponent argument," I think it's something that somebody who spent all of 5 minutes with the nunchaku would use. Nardz video addresses this argument and I haven't really seen anyone make a valid counterpoint. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e9mHaaqc0q7FiWQ.html By the way, I'd add that you can also generate power with the nunchaku just using minimal wrist movement and your own body (hip movement for horizontal swings etc.)

Bruce Lee was actually very advanced in every form of combat but he stuck to his favorites more

Thx for making the response

Great video! I honestly think Shad became too close minded in his way of thinking. I was a great fan of his for years, but his recent videos just cringed me out of there...

10:07 I think in this scenario, you can hold the nunchucks by the cord/chain for shorter range strikes when your opponent is constantly closing in on you and you find it hard to distance yourself from them. This striking technique was demonstrated by Nardz in his own response vid to Shad. Having heard both sides of this Nunchucks debate saga, I'm leaning more towards Nunchucks being effective weapons and not as bad as a lot of people try to say they are. Anyways, great video! Looking forward to seeing more from this channel! 👍

If you were to encounter a master of arnis... Would you stand a chance?

That chain connecting those nunchucks of yours look like they might be able to hold back a stick if you are fast and dexterous enough. might even be able to deflect then counterattack. This is only something an inexperienced blockhead (myself) with no knowledge with nunchucks what so ever can think of.

Can u put some moves on your channel to learn?

When you talk about his ballerina spinning you are referring to when he was demonstrating MAX power. He has shown that he can strike with a high level of control many other times

The qualitiy of discussion really decreased a lot from the first to this video. The first one was way more analytical and presented a good case for the nunchuck. But this one feels more bitter and agressive with less substance and more memes.

17:00 I just finished watching that video, this is actually incorrect. Or maybe a simple misunderstanding. Shad claims, (or at least seems to) that weapons that do have defense to them are better than those that do not. Or that's the impression I got from the video, which may be different from your impression I'm really not sure. Which, I don't know, I'm not sure I agree with that at all. The, GUN, you know, the go to modern weapon for just about anything, is literally 100% offense. We had to create armor to be defensive with them. I really like shad's videos, buuuuuuut... Im starting to see where some people come from. The guy has experience in one type of martial art and does use that to try and inform other types, which for generic stuff you could probably get away with, but, as we see IN THIS VIDEO, there are some things you can't get away with, because while some things in these various martial arts might be similar, or even universal, some are in fact, not. When you showed that you could actually hit someone at that close a distance simply by moving your body out of the way a bit, it actually highlight's shad's inexperience with the nunchuck, just in the same way that when you tried to show a sword losing its effectiveness at that distance shows your inexperience with that particular weapon. TLDR: You got shad's point wrong, but even his original point is still wrong in my opinion. Oh, and, sometimes people are just inexperienced. You and shad both know what you know, and that's fine, but I wish shad would admit it when he steps outside of the know. He hasn't made a response video to this video. And my guess as to why, is probably that he's been proven wrong and doesn't want to admit it. Which, does disappoint me, up until now I thought he was kind of an upstanding guy minus a few things here and there. I guess, anybody will eventually disappoint you, no matter how you pereceive them. We are all, afterall, human. And finally, there is one point shad made which historians actually agree with, and that is that the reason weapons fall out of usage is because something better, more efficient, more effective, etc, came along. What's better than the nunchuk? I don't really know, when it comes to damage. I'm not sure there is anything unless you again count the modern gun. But, when it comes to logistics? I'd say it fails. The reason people started using the gun instead of the longbow, is logistics. It was way easier to train a guy on a gun than it was a longbow. You could train a guy on a gun in like 2 weeks. They were cheap to make. You could make THOUSANDS of them. The longbow was cheap but it took ages to train a guy on it. So people might've simply stopped using nun chucks, because something eaiser to train on came along. Not because they're ineffective.

I brought the Stinger Whip up as an example of a modern weapon of the same design concept to Shad *myself billions* of times over in order to show that even if he *was* in fact right about the Nunchaku not hitting as hard as a stick for the same effort, that'd mean they're actually *better* than a stick as a *non-lethal* self-defense weapon, which, if he *was* right, would've been what they were *meant* for; and *every time* , he's just flat out *ignored* it; at this point, the only reason I stay subscribed to him is so whenever he makes a video like that, which he *also* did with the double-headed battle-axe, I can show it to a KZfaqr like Skallagrim, Metatron, or yourself, so that they can present a much more *rational, open minded counter* to Shad's bullshit. PS: Skallagrim made his *own* Nunchaku video a couple days ago, and linked *this* video as one of his sources, as well as some Nunchaku videos the Weaponism channel did, and addressed quite a few of Shad's bullshit arguments; I recommend you give it a watch

At 4:38 I feel like we're really getting to the heart of this debate. 😏

Shad is the next Dilmen

Why draw a distinction between martial arts and HEMA? The “MA” in HEMA stands for martial arts. The word martial comes from the Roman god of war, Mars. It means anything relating to war. If anything, HEMA is more martial than many of the fighting styles that come to mind when we think of martial arts because many of those fighting styles would be useless in a war, though they may be effective for self defense. Jujutsu is a martial art, but it’s not related to war. The last thing you want is to get in a clinch or on the ground during a war. It’s great for 1 on 1 combat, but when there are other people around trying to kill you, it’s not good to have both your hands tied up in a bind. That’s why Judo is designed specifically to quickly grab and throw an opponent to the ground and keep you on your feet. It’s much more suitable to use in warfare. Yet Judo and Jujutsu are both considered martial arts, even though only one is designed for warfare. My point is that if the term “martial arts” is used so broadly as to incorporate things like Jujutsu or Taekwondo, then saying HEMA is not a martial art is pretty absurd. Asians do not have a monopoly on warfare or the arts.

0/10 neither side used the sanjiegun (Just joking, great videos)

Physic Nerd here i can elaborate bv using some averages. ive come up with these numbers to show the difference in forces being applied. Please keep in mind that the mass of the object matters far more than the acceleration when it comes to force. 311.375 Newtons = Average punch with no training. 351.40 Newtons = Nunchunk strike. 5782.6886 Newtons = Pro heavy weight boxers punch. 35585.776 Newtons = MLB pro player swinging a bat. 2174811.355574 Newtons = 80 Mph head on collision car crash. The take away is that because you cant lean your body weight into the nunchunk and its only using the mass on the end of the chain you cant generate large forces, Since mass is weighted much more favorably in this equation. Will nunchunks hurt? Absolutely. Can they knock someone unconscious, unless they have a glass chin and any external force can knock them out, unlikely. A average person cant take a heavy weight boxers punch without going limp, but they can a average punch or strike, So the knockout point is somewhere between those two for the average person, Against a pro boxer, nunchucks are worthless, you might make him laugh at best and at worst just piss him off.

Where are the videos man :(

Great video.

Very good level of real combat nunchaku in demonstration, this is rare. Even if I think there is still a way to be more sober while being just as effective... So, obviously you can't compare the nunchaku with the stick, the characteristics are not the same and the two weapons don't match each other. not use in the same way, the nunchaku is a very singular weapon which has its own advantages and weaknesses (which can be overcome with an adapted footwork), some simply do not understand it and think "Oh, that sucks", so trivial .. .This is a PERSONAL melee weapon, not designed for the battlefield, so pls stop comparing it with those weapons. The nunchaku has its own advantages, I don't want to elaborate (or feed the pigs too much), but it has to do with its velocity and the exploitation of its inclination on certain angles of attack. Of course, you can't see it if you don't practice it seriously... so, commentator puffed up with certainties, the rule is the same for everything : if you don't master a subject by practice, it's better to keep your mouth shut ...

Nice sparring there. Shad doesn’t want a fair debate as we both know. The way he responded to you gave you no chance to respond with the larger audience (his) and he knew that. And all that childish crap… embarrassing. Look forward to your martial arts videos.

I made a video too adding to u and to Shad. I am more to shad side but you do have vaild points. I made a video long ago about this replying to Shadversity. Do u want to collaborate?

Yeah...his virginity comments seemed unprofessional, and kinda turned me away from his vid(he seemed to be making too many personal jabs) Also sry about the late reply: i didn't even realize this video existed as i didn't see a response from Shad, and only recently heard about it in a vid from Skallagrim ^^;

Ironically your explanation and demonstration of the stick has me leaning towards the stick. Watched you and Shad debate each other and neither is really listening to what the other is saying. You both are just talking but you are both entertaining.

Maybe it helps to think of nunchucks as half-a-projectile weapon. A melee range slingshot you don't have to reload.

20:36 Bro, You dont even now how glad your going to do this for us and next generations, 4 me youre the most meritioric guy in the today martial art community, which youve already proved for me in just very few of viodes u ve published. Competecy just drains out of you, while at the same time Telling in more down-to-earth way So we can understand in less than a minute a single sentence,... Compared to the Bruce Lee...

Thank you

Yeah you do a really good job at misrepresenting his arguments, You seem to think he's saying they're completely useless as weapons. But he's said multiple times that they're not useless, they're just one of the worst picks you could choose. You being proficient at using them doesn't make them good, for example you could spend half the time training to learn pretty much any other weapon and you would be far deadlier of an opponent. You shouldn't be trying to demonstrate why nunchucks are good you should be trying to prove why nunchucks are better than other weapons.

Well, I have watched both your vids and shads.. shad was a bit of dick - but it was for sure good for your channel ;) I wish you luck in your YT, martial arts and life. Your a nice young man. Its never easy taking western techniques east or vice versa - so much ingrained thought, but we have to keep trying because both have so much to teach and so much to learn.

Amazing

Found you because of Shad! I'm subscribing, and I hope you make more.

that guy was more busy protecting himself than stabbing, this shows intimidation counts

Brilliant video.

The Jo (the long stick in Japanese material art) is better than the Nunshuks. Changed my mind.