NUNCHUCKS, but BETTER!

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9 ай бұрын

Does combining two hammers together, create a more effective (or deadly) nunchuck?
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@Punched_Kuze 9 ай бұрын

"From the moment I understood the weakness of nunchucks, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of sticks.”

@rhivan6921 9 ай бұрын

"and the frail string you consider so useful will tear and you will try to fix it. But my stick is already fixed. For the Stick is immemorial"

@ProcyonDei 9 ай бұрын

"Even in death I serve the Shadissiah..."

@ginnyjollykidd 9 ай бұрын

This is a good reason bartenders have a baseball bat under the bar. A good ash or maple bat would do well. A Louisville Slugger, please. Oooh! Make a nunchucks out of two souvenir bats! The short ones about half the length of a professional bat. You can get them with famous signatures on them like Ernie Banks or Ralph Garr. Companies put their logos on them to hand out. I got one from a company picnic one year.

@kelvinsantiago7061 9 ай бұрын

"Your kind clings to your Nunchucks as if they will not break and fail you"

@ASpaceOstrich 9 ай бұрын

Even in death, I serve as two sticks. Stick win every time.

@EpicRandomness555 9 ай бұрын

Not having enough handle for the Mjölnirs is actually ironically hilarious

@dux5525 9 ай бұрын

Loki messed with the forging process and made the handle too small for Thor to use with both hands.

@somerando1073 9 ай бұрын

Thematically on point.

@Grandwigg 9 ай бұрын

I guess they couldn't handle a real weapon? XD

@ASpaceOstrich 9 ай бұрын

@@dux5525 This actually raises the question. Is there any efficacy to swinging a mjolnir style hammer by the pommel strap?

@yokai1235 9 ай бұрын

@@ASpaceOstrich kinda is like a flail you are getting more acceleration but sacrificing kinetic force in the process

@randallsmith3986 9 ай бұрын

They rediscovered the Flail, but with a worse handle

@TheMelnTeam 8 ай бұрын

That's what I was thinking too. You don't need a hammer on the other end...make the handle a little longer...and hey! A situationally viable weapon! That people thought about over a millennia ago, but still!

@koljaleffek7290 8 ай бұрын

i thought morningstar in bad, but basically the same line of thought

@fadingjedi 8 ай бұрын

A true fail is probably better

@preachrem7182 8 ай бұрын

Double sided flail or morning stars xD

@lml55 8 ай бұрын

Nunchucku are not Flails, they were used in Self Defense and never built to kill Also unlike a Flail, you can hold both sticks and grapple an enemy really easily as you catch their sword or hammer with the middle and easily control the fight from there

@duffthimblespork8371 9 ай бұрын

"The only way to make nunchucks more dangerous to your opponent is to make them more dangerous to yourself." -a rare Confucius/Sun Tzu collab

@TheWhyme01 8 ай бұрын

Nunchucks can cause concussions

@RedDragon412 9 ай бұрын

I understand why this is coming out now: You had to wait for Shad to be half a world away in order to get away with bringing Nunchucks into work.

@marthahawkinson-michau9611 9 ай бұрын

For real.

@billcynic1815 9 ай бұрын

Ok, but have you considered...chainsaw chucks?

@JustTooDamnHonest 9 ай бұрын

Yes I have and I would tell you that you must not value having any arms.

@mattw6705 9 ай бұрын

We goin wacky? How about bowling ball chucks

@TheSteam02 9 ай бұрын

(Chainsaw Man OP plays)

@BaileygaskellGaskell 9 ай бұрын

Someone get hold of the prop departments for mad max I think there is someone they need to talk to

@MinnesotaCouchpotato 9 ай бұрын

Chainsaws are pretty cool, but there's no beating... GOPHER CHUCKS!

@lemonlefleur6236 9 ай бұрын

Everyone loves to hate on the Nunchucks but no one ever has the decency to pay their respects to the brave Nuns who chucked.

@grahck4391 8 ай бұрын

Sooo ... How many nuns could chuck nunchucks if nunchucking nuns could chuck nunchucks?

@lemonlefleur6236 8 ай бұрын

@@grahck4391 100% of them, as they’re all “nunchuncking Nuns” and thus would all be capable of chucking nunchucks

@lml55 8 ай бұрын

@TheEternalPheonix 8 ай бұрын

@@grahck4391 How many nuns could a nun-Chuck chuck, if a nun-Chuck could chuck nuns? Note: Chuck makes for a really odd looking nun!

@grogc6942 9 ай бұрын

To be honest, I feel the attempt to make deadlier nunchucks is gonna end up at the peasant flail... which I want to see. Cause two handed stick with metal nunchuck on the end is, like, the highest class chuckery.

@kirbyis4ever 8 ай бұрын

Funny enough the nunchuck was originally a set of clappers for patrolling night watch and by making them thicker you got the chucks. Hitting people with what is basically two rulers just pisses people off.

@WilliamBrinkley45 9 ай бұрын

I honestly believe those “Dumbchuks” are deadly AF.

@EpicRandomness555 9 ай бұрын

To your enemies and probably you lol

@beowulfsrevenge4369 9 ай бұрын

@@EpicRandomness555Precisely!

@czkillz 9 ай бұрын

@@EpicRandomness555I've actually done this with two rubber mallets before, and it's very painful to get hit, so 10/10 would recommend. 🤔

@Psycorde 9 ай бұрын

@@EpicRandomness555high risk high rewards, perfectly balanced

@thekaxmax 9 ай бұрын

at both ends

@ramzen89 9 ай бұрын

That's why the two handed flail was the more viable and widely used option. You still get plenty of damage output, while keeping the user safe and maintaining the benefit of being able to get around shields or other forms of guarding.

@ezrafaulk3076 9 ай бұрын

All you have to do is *follow through* , which these guys *didn't* ; they *stopped* their swings with their arms still out in *front* of them; in other words, they stopped *mid* swing!

@sixpathskaiokentv 9 ай бұрын

@@ezrafaulk3076 And "You Gotta MOVE"

@strider7008 9 ай бұрын

I wouldnt consider any, or really all, flails widely used except at medieval times maybe.

@JarieSuicune 9 ай бұрын

Seriously, why would you block the stick-part of a flail and not the head? A flail only gets past a shield if the shield is placed conveniently so that the head can clear it AND it only matters if the head is able to reach far enough down the back of the shield to hit the arm/shoulder/head of the person behind the shield. I'm no expert, but if you were a soldier (not some untrained commoner, like me) and saw an opponent swinging a flail at you, would you just put the shield in a static position and wait for the flail to come over it OR would you actively be blocking the damaging flail head to negate it altogether, the same as you would any other weapon?

@ProfX501 9 ай бұрын

@@JarieSuicune Compare a flail to a polearm of equivalent length (or a sword in the case of a one-handed weapon). With a polearm, parrying the haft would stop the head of the weapon. To block the head of a flail, you’d need to move your shield much further in the same amount of time, and into a very awkward position. It’s also not always easy to gauge the position of a flail head on a flexible chain as it’s travelling.

@PoserPosse 9 ай бұрын

Tyranth saying that Shad has a stick, "On you, IN you, whatever." That was a sneaky joke!

@carrott36 9 ай бұрын

One problem with dum-chucks - they’re still worse than a hammer on a stick.

@mr.cauliflower3536 9 ай бұрын

I mean, they're easier to conceal

@minhducnguyen9276 9 ай бұрын

@@mr.cauliflower3536 That's the whole point of it. Shad is just trying to force the nunchuck to perform the roles that it isn't meant to do.

@soup-flavored-soup6613 9 ай бұрын

@@minhducnguyen9276smacking people?

@pavelmorozov6599 8 ай бұрын

@@mr.cauliflower3536 how ? one hammer is easier to conceal than 2 hammers tied together.

@mr.cauliflower3536 8 ай бұрын

@@pavelmorozov6599But you get much better reach and mechanical advantage

@TornadoCreator 9 ай бұрын

So what you've established is, Nunchucks are still awful and are just a broken stick, but the Light Flail was actually a fairly usable weapon, albeit a bit unweildy. Great video, well done.

@foldionepapyrus3441 9 ай бұрын

Would have liked to see the dumb-chuck vs a normal stick on the same targets under the same conditions myself - as the dumb-chuck clearly has still got control issues, durability is perhaps also going to remain a problem even with a more refined version. So to be 'Fairly useable' may be accurate, if you limit your targets to the brainless, not reactive targets that will sit there while you drill a new hole in the backup hammer. But actually calling them a weapon... For that title I think they would have to out damage the stick pretty substantially (which I really don't think they will). Against a resisting opponent getting a good hit in would be rather more challenging with the very short broken stick nature, so it would have to be a really really good hit. Ultimately the winning move is clearly to make it longer stick one side, heavy head the other, giving you some reach again. At which point you do just have a flail...

@counterstrike89 9 ай бұрын

He hasn't established anything, because he doesn't know how to use nunchucks and he's using an old cumbersome style of chucks, there's different chucks, with different advantages, they like to not tell you that.

@Niskirin 9 ай бұрын

@@counterstrike89 Oh please enlighten us, o disciple of Broken Sticks, what pray tell is the proper way to use a broken stick?

@counterstrike89 9 ай бұрын

@@Niskirin I'll have to upload a video on it, but yes, most people do not understand how to fight with nunchucks, you have a lot of people flipping them, that's good, but its not the same thing as fighting with them. For a start, you use lighter wood, most of the performance chucks now you see people whipping around really fast, that's light thin wood, but its still a strong wood and will do damage. If you use, say a rattan or bamboo wood, its quite light, so its speed is going to be very fast when striking, but it won't break, very strong.

@TornadoCreator 9 ай бұрын

@@counterstrike89 Sure, you keep telling yourself that you know the mystic art of the broken stick. The rest of us can see reality for what it is, and see these "weapons" for the weeb-only novelties they actually are.

@Real11BangBang 9 ай бұрын

Best way to fix nunchucks is to delete the chain and just use a stick😊

@SergioLeonardoCornejo 9 ай бұрын

I'm yet to see proof of them being useful, but too man accident videos

@K.B98 9 ай бұрын

Sticks*, two "halves" of the nunchucks. Double the stick energy!

@jaywerner8415 9 ай бұрын

But then you just have 2 small sticks.

@mapowey7214 9 ай бұрын

the best way to fix a stick is to break it it half and connect the halves with a chain.

@K.B98 9 ай бұрын

@@jaywerner8415 Its not the size of the stick that determines its energy, it's how you swing it

@taqresu5865 9 ай бұрын

The Nunchuck legacy lives on... Being the catalyst for fun Shadiversity videos like this.

@casthedemon 9 ай бұрын

The thing that gives flails an edge is the fact that they have a longer handle and thus at full extension even if the weight comes back full force its only gonna hit the handle and not your hand. Nunchucks don't have that advantage.

@EnsignRedshirtRicky 9 ай бұрын

Time to up the challenge: The Three-section staff (aka Super Nunchuck). I hear if you spin it like a lightsaber you can fly.

@mdexterc2894 9 ай бұрын

No matter what you do, you'll never outdo the champion of flexible weapons: a pummel on a leash

@nikkibrowning4546 9 ай бұрын

End him rightly!

@h0rk3d 9 ай бұрын

Or a whip with dumbchucks on the tip!

@thekaxmax 9 ай бұрын

There's a reason they were made illegal in a lot of places

@SkoomaGodDovahkiin666 9 ай бұрын

Pommel autogun or Pommels on a sack and chain.

@milesmatheson1142 9 ай бұрын

Sock'n'Lock

@Volper1 9 ай бұрын

Watching Tyranth go at the melons and coconuts with the hammer chucks, it makes me wonder if they wouldn’t be more effective with just a steel ball on the end. He seems to impact most of the targets with the flat, or side, of the hammer head, not the actual hammer or the pry on the back.

@OMAGAICE122 8 ай бұрын

The funny part is that Proper (COMBAT) Nunchaku tend to have heavily weighed ends, either by wood or metal, so that being hit by them would actually deal significant damage. Most non-weighted variants are used as either toys or training tools.

@corvus9795 9 ай бұрын

I sort of always saw nunchucks as more of a discipline training tool. It takes alot of discipline to master nunchucks to a point where your more of a danger to your opponent than yourself. Cause the big thing about nunchucks is that you are going to hurt yourself a lot when learning how to use them

@samuelgibson780 9 ай бұрын

I've also seen people argue online that it trains blocking reflexes as well. The idea of nunchuks as training tools makes sense to me. But I am no expert.

@Donky_Kongs_Baby 6 ай бұрын

Whats funny is thats not even there purpose lol its like saying a shovel is a good tool for training blocks with lmao.

@ChristophBrinkmann 5 ай бұрын

Hey Corvus. ANY martial arts teaches discipline.

@steelmongoose4956 9 ай бұрын

Sword-chucks, yo!

@kencoffman7145 9 ай бұрын

No matter what, Shad, please keep this format up! BS aside, you gotta keep up this form! All of you are priceless!

@josepetersen7112 9 ай бұрын

If we really aren't concerned with the self harm from nunchucks, then we could maximize the offensive potential by attaching impact fused grenades.

@Cptn_Fabulous 9 ай бұрын

The Ullapool Caber-chucks.

@isaace436 9 ай бұрын

sounds like something that would appear as an enemy's weapon in serious sam

@johndortheknight4802 8 ай бұрын

I like how you think friend

@psy-fi64 8 ай бұрын

@@Cptn_Fabulous"A sober man would throw it."

@lml55 8 ай бұрын

@TehRedBlur 9 ай бұрын

That intro was bloody brilliant, Shad. What fun!

@chiefcoiler 9 ай бұрын

I have some ideas to improve the hammer-chucks. Screw pommels on the ends of nun-chuks, so you can end your opponents rightly. They'd have to be pretty big and heavy pommels though. You could also just use maces instead of hammers. This would get rid of most of the accuracy problems, as most maces are symmetrical on all sides. EDIT: I made this comment before you mentioned maces at the end.

@56815 9 ай бұрын

Find two big nuts and screw them on to the end of the stuck, maybe even wedge the nuts in place. Though.... you could just do the same to a stick and get better results....

@Muljinn 9 ай бұрын

That is generally known as a “mace”…

@ElectrikNYCfunK 9 ай бұрын

Totally not running to my garage & chaining together 2 hammers just based off the thumbnail alone now......... wish me luck! 🤣🤣🤣

@NarrowSpark96 9 ай бұрын

"Dumchucks" seem pretty effective. I'm not surprised that adding a metal lump on the end would add a good bit of damage. On a different note, I'd be interested in seeing how nunchucks similar to Devil May Cry's Cerberus would work. Would having 3 sticks instead of 2 make them more effective? Probably not, but it's an idea.

@giulyanoviniciussanssilva2947 7 ай бұрын

Probably yes because it is more effective.

@Eclipse_101 8 ай бұрын

“On you, in you, sure.” WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THIS?! BAHAHAH

@Zetact_ 9 ай бұрын

If you really want to maximize the danger of nunchucks, why not try the famous gun-chucks?

@Ethan13371 9 ай бұрын

That would be illegal(in America)! Not because of the guns though…

@HD-mp6yy 9 ай бұрын

@@Ethan13371It would be illegal in Australia. Mainly because of the guns.

@metabolic2057 9 ай бұрын

Gun-fu

@tsiefhtes 9 ай бұрын

@@Ethan13371you would have to register the string as a machine gun( yes the ATF has said this)

@NoobTamer 9 ай бұрын

@@tsiefhtes Which is funny, because after bump stocks got banned the ATF put out a list of "approved" alternatives. Among them was using a string or rubber band. I never heard anyone who followed their "advice" but if they did, I hope they sued for entrapment.

@santino7470 9 ай бұрын

You’re right, Sword-Chucks are FAR SUPERIOR Edit: happy to see other 8-bit theater fans in the replies

@ze_glitchy_gamer7629 9 ай бұрын

Makes me wish for lightsaber nunchuck to be a canon thing...

@arthurdeheaulme7123 9 ай бұрын

Yeah! Ask Usui Tengen, he use it perfectly to kill demons in Kimetsu no Yaiba x)

@adrigl3371 9 ай бұрын

Use katanas for more superiority

@CryptkeyprVT 9 ай бұрын

Somebody else has read 8-bit theater

@LordReginaldMeowmont 9 ай бұрын

Fighter McWarrior has entered the chat.

@erikbjelke4411 4 ай бұрын

I find it incredibly ironic and appropriate that the Thorchucks have handles that are too short, and this is repeatedly acknowledged.

@Corvona 7 ай бұрын

after years of training with nunchucks they (in my opinion) are surprisingly versatile. they can also be hard to predict while fighting against them because you can attack so fast and close distance quickly by extending your reach.

@theromanorder 9 ай бұрын

2:04 theory as to why its better 2:46 problem (edge alignment and you can hook yourself) 3:35 exsplaning hiting with nun chucks 4:10 test with normal ones 4:57 test "dum chucks" 5:40 talk, once you hit it just wants to keep going or ricishay down not back at you 6:45 problem with the thor chucks (not long enough handle) 6:51 test 7:40 talk (its the middle point between the damage of dum chucks and speed of normal, would of been better to use longer handle for more control) 8:35 test comparing dum and normal chucks 8:45 talk about spining (not practical, but its not hard) 10:55 test with normal ones 11:21 test with thor chucks 11:50 test with dum chucks 13:08 talk (normal had speed and control but made bottles go flying, there esay, low chance of self harm but less power, against hard targets not strong and can break Thor chuchks, had power, dum chucks had lots of power and destroyed the target, but with all the weight it puts stress on handle wich leads to breakege, If the head was more like a mace it could work as no need for edge alignment 20:00 5/10 for thor chucks (as i said, not as fast as normal, not as powerful as dum chucks but alot less self harm

@tshaw4725 9 ай бұрын

He is the messaiah

@theromanorder 9 ай бұрын

@@tshaw4725 there was a while i did lots of these lol

@tshaw4725 9 ай бұрын

I see I see

@tshaw4725 9 ай бұрын

Shad should pin these

@theromanorder 9 ай бұрын

@@tshaw4725 i know..

@invenblocker 9 ай бұрын

Best way to fix the nunchuck is to give them ice powers, so when you swing them those are frost imbued strikes. Maybe with an option to spin them to create a blast of ice. Even better, how's about fire abd lightning power too, and perhaps the ability to combine them into a full stick.

@MrPlainsflyer 9 ай бұрын

Maaaaaaagic!!!!

@NarrowSpark96 9 ай бұрын

King Cerberus?

@samuelurban6132 9 ай бұрын

Featuring Dante from Devil May Cry! (Couldn't resist)

@blackjacktrial 9 ай бұрын

Also, use ice to freeze the chain so you have a longer haft. Wait, now we have a cold stick...

@tranehoffman4798 9 ай бұрын

I love that Tyranth is slowly turning into Shad

@travishancock9120 9 ай бұрын

I am really excited to see more of these videos.

@VictorianTimeTraveler 9 ай бұрын

I've smacked myself over the head with nunchucks so many times. Shad is spot on about nunchuks

@ChillyJack 9 ай бұрын

Making hammer nunchucks is funny because slapping a hammer head on the end of a longer stick is also a far more effective weapon than nunchucks, and even more effective than a plain stick most of the time.

@NonSequeter-vr1dn 2 ай бұрын

I'm loving y'all's extra content. My dogs absolutely Get all geeked out when Tyranth gets amped up on stuff😅

@kamenriderblade2099 9 ай бұрын

Tyranth, here's a simple machining idea for your "Flail Chucks" that don't look like you spent 10 minutes at the Hardware store. On the end of your standard Wooden Nun-Chucks, have a simple Spherical Metal Ball that is "Screwed In" to the base of your Wooden Nun-Chucks. That should create the "Flail Chucks" that you want. Finding a Metal Sphere Ball & Standard Screw Thread should be easy enough for a machinist like you. For the flexible linkage, use Dyneema Rope. That should give you superior rope flexibility & strength using modern fibers

@budthecyborg4575 9 ай бұрын

I'd just thread a giant nut onto the end of each handle.

@kencoffman7145 9 ай бұрын

Less rebound with heavier weight on the striking end. Transfer of energy

@EpicRandomness555 9 ай бұрын

“Impossible.”

@dawhandaonli5925 9 ай бұрын

So I did shaolin gung fu when I was a kid, and the thing I was taught was that nunchucks are for tangling and disarming an opponent, not for actually attacking with the intent to do serious harm. The motions we practiced (aside from generally swinging them around and looking cool) was to catch a swinging “sword”, get in close, break your opponent’s grip, then handcuff them with the nunchucks.

@jakelowery7398 9 ай бұрын

Nunchuck vs sword is an EXTREMELY unfavorable matchup. I'd probably rather have a darn buckler and nothing else over nunchucks. Besides that, sword the size of a gladius would be practically just as easy to conceal/carry.

@jasonwinterboer5232 9 ай бұрын

4:55 Bro should be wearing a Helmet and face shield... I'm so terrified for Tyranth's safety!!!

@callumwright7459 9 ай бұрын

I think if you were trying to improve the Nunchuck, without discarding the basic design, you would add heavy metal caps to the end of each stick. Perhaps the caps could be studded, flanged or ribbed in a similar way to many maces, the other major improvement I could see would be the inclusion of some mechanism that allows the user to affix the two halves... y'know... making a stick. The problem is, both those suggestions negate the only perceivable advantage of the nunchuck, that it is a simple, cheap weapon, that doesn't look much like a weapon. Alternatively one could light each end of the 'chuck on fire, spin them around as a form of intimidation, and then, while they are distracted... kick'em in the junk, and run.

@wolokowoh0 9 ай бұрын

The former is the non-foam pugil stick.

@jedcollings3624 9 ай бұрын

And the fact that you can, y'know, fold your nunchucks in half for carrying around with you Assuming you can't simply make the nunchucks heavier with a harder denser wood, I would just make the chain a lot longer and aim to smash right through their head like some sort of two handed heavy whip, just make the thing significantly longer than any type of sword normally carried and use it two handed

@1981cbrinkm 9 ай бұрын

@jedcollings3624 A hard long stick can be a walking stick. Don't even need to hide it, whereas if you're caught with nunchucks, the police probably aren't going to be happy seeing you carrying two dorky sticks

@jedcollings3624 9 ай бұрын

@@1981cbrinkm That's not relevant to time periods where you're permitted to walk around with a sword, nunchucks probably were the telescopic baton of it's time, equally you would be in a lot of trouble if police caught you with one of those.

@1981cbrinkm 9 ай бұрын

@jedcollings3624 HAHAHAHAHAHA yeah um. The nunchucks are the dorks of melee weapons. Have you never wondered why you never saw armies of nunchuck wielding warriors, nor any mercenaries? Here, I'll ruin the surprise - the nunchucks were dead for hundreds if not thousands of years. Nunchucks are the typewriters of weapons in an internet age. They're the horse driven buggy in a world where we have cars. Bruce Lee, yes that Bruce Lee also rightly mocked them. Only reason they're around in popular media is because of a ninja turtle cartoon. Also, nunchucks do not telescope, and we're not talking about effective weapons like batons. Stay on topic, please.

@gameragodzilla 9 ай бұрын

I’d say a useful way to get the benefits of a nunchuck (more portability) while fixing the problems is simply making the nunchucks lock into the extended position when in use and then fold back in during carry.

@TheSteam02 9 ай бұрын

I believe some concealed-carry batons are like that.

@Eidolon1andOnly 9 ай бұрын

You mean like a telescoping baton?

@dirtpounder 9 ай бұрын

@@Eidolon1andOnlyit always circles back to STICK.

@gameragodzilla 9 ай бұрын

@@Eidolon1andOnly Pretty much.

@Eidolon1andOnly 9 ай бұрын

@@gameragodzilla Like a normal telescoping baton or like two of them tied together to make nunchucks?

@nicholaswroblewski3069 8 ай бұрын

nunchucks are a nice concealable in the back of a sleeve stealth weapon

@caseymauldin8396 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for making this, it was fun.

@kevinmorrice 9 ай бұрын

honestly, i always wondered why you dont see nunchucks with maces or an iron ball on the end

@Bobis32 9 ай бұрын

funny enough traditional nunchaku would be capped with brass or similar metal or have weight pined to them, the solid wood construction is mostly a hollywood perpetuated myth due to how dangerous they are even made out of wood

@thnecromaniac 9 ай бұрын

My assessments from watching this, the best way to improve on the nunchucks, and still keep the idea behind them: 1: make the two "sticks" more similar to Maces. And/or 2: give them a longer chain, make them more similar to a kusarigama.

@minhducnguyen9276 9 ай бұрын

Keep the same ergonomics of the sticks by making them out of steel tubes, you can also adjust the weight by filling them with lead.

@demolition3612 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant, replacing the rope in nunchucks with a solid material like a stick, perfect modification

@DarioKalen_Kagenui 9 ай бұрын

Great video as always.

@Kal_g 9 ай бұрын

The ghost of Bruce Lee has entered the chat...

@MrSimpsondennis 9 ай бұрын

Dumbchuck, aka double-ended flail The added weight from the hammer-chuck also adds inertia, so heavier nunchucks would be harder, but safer, to use as they are/accelerate slower and will flop around less.

@teutonicknight9041 9 ай бұрын

I love the energy Tyranth brings to the channel!!!!!

@SirBitesALot101 8 ай бұрын

I like these videos, because they're actually skillful with the weapons they're using.

@beowulfsrevenge4369 9 ай бұрын

I'm not inclined at all to use nun chucks in any capacity. I'm even less inclined to use two claw hammers chained together as nun chucks. Hitting yourself with a stick is bad enough but hitting yourself in say the groin with a claw hammer is sooooo much worse.

@nikkibrowning4546 9 ай бұрын

Ow. 😵

@Assdafflabaff 9 ай бұрын

I heard some people are into that.

@dawhandaonli5925 9 ай бұрын

The thing is, nunchucks aren’t really offensive weapons so much as defensive weapons. When I was a kid I did shaolin gung fu, and the drills we ran with nunchucks was to tangle them around a sword, get in close, disarm the opponent, and then basically handcuff the opponent with the nunchucks (and with the cord wrapped around your wrist, and someone yanking on the handles, they had a good amount of leverage and could really manhandle you with not a lot of effort)

@anonymousapproximation8549 9 ай бұрын

@@dawhandaonli5925Yeah, that's kinda why I don't care for Shad's take on them. It's clear that, in his mind, if a weapon has no direct offensive capabilities, that it's a bad weapon, when that couldn't be further from the truth. It's like saying a hammer is a bad tool because you can't use it on a screw.

@Lich___ 9 ай бұрын

I was using a sledge hammer about a year ago and it bounced off the beam I was hitting and broke my leg. Now imagine that, but nunchuks.

@pubcle 9 ай бұрын

The biggest issue that cannot be resolved without just getting rid of the chain in my opinion is if you put anything in the way of the nunchuck you can just render it impotent then force through it in one motion.

@jamesdeek7039 9 ай бұрын

You guys are living the dream

@deathlytree434 9 ай бұрын

Loving the improved video quality

@NidgeDFX 9 ай бұрын

Lol nutcrackers 2.0

@Qaianna 9 ай бұрын

Interesting results, and not what I expected. Tho I always wondered which was better: a nunchaku, or the individual short sticks that they're made of? (Not the full stick, the two little ones.)

@Justicearian 9 ай бұрын

This has been done before; it's called a flail. Once you add a head, the handle on that end serves no purpose (and the head on the handle end reduces the striking radius / velocity / energy). A mace head would work better because the hammer head is too random: the head or claw concentrates force, while the side spreads force out more than the tip of real nunchaku.

@seymourfields3613 9 ай бұрын

I was really worried Shad was already back home. Excited for more CASTLES!

@AllTheOthers 9 ай бұрын

Nunchucks aren't stupid, they aren't meant for combat. They are training tools meant to help condition the body.

@owenwoolley3394 9 ай бұрын

@@Carnage-Pepethat’s a flail. Different weapon. Nunchucks were originally intended as a ‘pocket Bō’. Basically they could still be carried around simply and hidden but if you extended the nunchuck fully along with your extended arm it was intended to match the length of an Okinawan Bō.

@bt1959 9 ай бұрын

I'm now very curious about dead-blow hammers. That might stop the rebound entirely.

@BS-hammer 9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you guys are in matching color scheme finally. lol😂🤯

@futurewario9591 9 ай бұрын

Using round blunts like the end of a mace would be best because it's the least likely to hit yourself with.

@Tallorian 9 ай бұрын

I'm surprised to see you guys wear no head protection while testing these 'chucks'. Especially if you expected the hammerchucks to break. We don't want you get hurt too badly! But yeah, very curious video. I'd love to see proper 'macechucks' made and tested. The concept sounds dope. Perhaps even Shad would finally recognize potential of such chucks as a weapon XD

@absolutedegenerate2992 5 ай бұрын

Sad thing is drew this as a concenpt weapon for a parody of mine

@m.h.6470 9 ай бұрын

You got very lucky, that the metal hammers didn't chip or even explode, when you hit them together like in the beginning. I cringed every time you did that. Hammers like this are hardened tool steel, that can have imperfections and internal stresses - especially cheap ones like yours - that can be triggered/released, if you hit them together. The resulting "explosion" can be VERY violent and fast sharp metal chips can be flying around. Check out "WHY YOU DON'T HIT HARDENED STEEL!!!!!" by Alec Steele.

@glenncaughey5044 9 ай бұрын

Mythbusters also tested smacking old hammers together. The speed if the fragments was insane.

@eduarddodu1973 9 ай бұрын

It's very cool seeing nun chuncks but more crazy, now you should do the same thing with flails

@herbderbler1585 8 ай бұрын

I get that the claw hammers were done somewhat for comedic effect, but it does prove that a more omnidirectional smashy weight on the end would solve many of the problems with nunchucks. Basically, combine the operating mechanism of chucks with the striking mechanism of flails, maces and morningstars.

@disasterincarnate 8 ай бұрын

might as well have something like 2 hollow pipes, kinda like some of the bone breaking extendable batons security forces use only thickened up to nunchuck size and just have some kind of small weighted ball on the ends to make them into mini maces.

@OofHearted 9 ай бұрын

Ones I saw recently were somehow the dumbest but at the same time, awesome in a Kung Fury kind of way. It was two sawn-off shotguns, because yes, they were Gunchucks and I definitely want a pair hung up in my room.

@NidgeDFX 9 ай бұрын

In my prime i could solo most with nunchucks :p you don't have to be fancy when attacking. They literally are an extension to your arms. A stick/bo you can lock them with your chucks and pull and/or kick/shoulder bash your enemy. You all claiming there isnt enough power in a swing of a nunchuck? You take 200+ mph to the body and tell me else wise. The key to them is balance. You have twice if not more stamina to most weapons as they are light and one handed.

@VidelxSpopovich 9 ай бұрын

That’s a weird way to tell everyone that you have a micro penis.

@eyflfla 9 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pruHorh-mb3YpJc.html Not trying to be dismissive, but Shad really does go deep into all this.

@sergiovega451 9 ай бұрын

6:20-that makes sense with the weight being forward and wanting to drop after impact would be hard to come back- a 90 or 180 degree lever for the linkage would make it insane but less maneuverable and it’s already brilliant

@kylie_h1978 9 ай бұрын

Essentially these are just a double-ended flail, and like a flail is more deadly than nunchucks, so are these. If you get rid of the second hammer for the safety of the user, make that stick longer for better ease of use, and there you have it, a flail.

@Sleipnirrob 7 ай бұрын

People who can't even use the proper name (much less use them properly) describe why a weapon sucks...

@Lich___ 9 ай бұрын

Is it possible that nunchuks are less lethal by design? Do we know their origin? Seems like the perfect weapon for someone more interested in intimidation than destruction.

@rbrb7869 9 ай бұрын

There is the speculation that it was invented from a working tool for field work. If that´s true than it would be a cheap self defense weapon for poor people which can be hidden and taken along all the time. And for those who say that you can also take a stick with you...look at your home town and tell me how many people are carrying sticks. I personally don´t like nunchucks and agree they are very often harmful to the owner himself but with proper training it also has it´s advantages.

@Lich___ 9 ай бұрын

@@rbrb7869 I was just on a train and I saw an old guy carrying a stick with a feather on it (which I think was to make it go faster) so, your argument is invalid. But seriously, would you happen to know what tool that was? Closest thing I can imagine would be that they were used as a flail for threshing grain, but that's a pretty weird design for a flail.

@robertdobbs4156 9 ай бұрын

Keep doing what you do boys, we appreciate it!

@sarinhighwind 9 ай бұрын

the opening was good. love it.

@DeclanCC 9 ай бұрын

Remember the reason nunchucks were important is for their ability to hide their true intention. Two small sticks and a piece of rope is not instantly recognisable as a weapon, just as you'll find most "Ninja weapons" are usualy a range of simple farming tools. Being able to transport two claw hammers and a rope is the exact type of thing that would be used by modern ninjas.

@hian 7 ай бұрын

It's not just that it isn't easily recognizable, it's that a folded nunchaku isn't even visible in the first place in traditional Japanese/Okinawan wear - whether by putting it inside the wide sleeves, into the wide obi(sash) or simply along the hem inside of the chest-portion of the kimono. The likely real reason for nunchaku to exist is as a "concealed weapon with a reach equalizer to a sword". Carrying a staff openly takes away the element of surprise, while a short stick doesn't provide the necessary length to face an attacker with a blade. The nunchaku, though unwieldy is the best compromise they could think of. It's also actually a really great tool for scaring away/fighting off wild animals.

@icemaiden9534 9 ай бұрын

i really love functional fandom, its one of my fave things on shadiversity

@procow2274 9 ай бұрын

Congratulations you rediscovered the flail 🙂

@Breezey_Dubz 8 ай бұрын

A mace head on the end of them would be pretty decent really in both efficacy and appearance, would make swinging em alot easier too without clawing yourself with the hammerhead

@guillaume6459 9 ай бұрын

You are greating the nunchunk punk genre.

@coreytaggart128 9 ай бұрын

I like the thor-chucks they had the best sound when hitting things.

@indigova 8 ай бұрын

I feel like a safer but as deadly version of the hammer chucks would be effective. Just put a rounded ball of metal, that is slightly bigger than the width of the nunchucks at each end, and it would work.

@UPTAUT 9 ай бұрын

Omg hammer on hammer action. Lol. 😂 fellowship stands with Shad. Always.

@legowithhoontoons8209 8 ай бұрын

Giving you traction

@angryroostercreations5194 9 ай бұрын

construct and test a grain flail. It has a long handle with a shorter articulated head. They were used for threshing grain, but were also used as weapons, but not very prominently. The head is also not attached by a long chain, just one metal link on the end of the shaft, and end of the head.

@brit-ishgaming3403 9 ай бұрын

"Nathan can you zoom in on that?" "No...I don't think I will"

@rylian21 8 ай бұрын

The chucks I learned with actually had a significantly larger diameter on the end and a steel cap, so it had a pretty similar effect. as the hammerchucks.

@yungmalaria 8 ай бұрын

The hammerchucks seem to be a surprisingly effective DIY weapon

@DanaOtken 9 ай бұрын

I feel it's important to keep enough "chain" between the stick parts that you can catch something in it. (Ideally, enough to catch a neck. As with the kusarigama, a garotte is one of the weapon's most generally useful functions.)

@possibear 8 ай бұрын

the water bottles seemed to pop because of the stand, it seemed like the bottles sat "in" the pipe a little and thats why they poped. kind of like the force squeezed the bottles inorder to pop them instead of causing a tear.

@bitchface235 9 ай бұрын

from what i remember some nunchucks did have like a band of iron or steel at the bottom with little bumps or protrusions to sort of give the same weighted effect of those dumbchuks

@williamjanak2013 9 ай бұрын

From this video I get the impression that Fails are a good weapon. Great work as always.

@jaysenwilliams7687 4 ай бұрын

I love you guy and the work and videos that you do and you have amazing points on this video about nunchucks. But I would like to point out that while it is one way to hold them is up higher then other practises I just want to see your opinion on if you held it 1/2 an inch from the bottom and see how often you hit your hand. Still love you guys and all the fun stuff you do and hope you guys can keep doing it!!!

@konstellashon1364 9 ай бұрын

Regarding weapon spinning, there is a practical training reason. Whether stick or blade, it's a form of arm conditioning. Hand grip, wrist flexibility and shoulder endurance all get developed by the 'silly, show-offy' twirling. Also, the user familiarizes with the weight and balance of the particular weapon.