Nunchaku is composed of three parts: the body of the stick, the end of the stick, and the chain. Nunchaku can be made of wood, steel, rubber and other materials, especially hardwood (sandalwood, oak, rosewood, jujube wood, etc.).
The specifications of the nunchaku mainly include: the color of the nunchaku, the material of the body, the length, the length of the chain (rope), the diameter of the body.
The nunchaku of Bruce Lee's movie "Raptor" was yellow, and he also had a black nunchaku. Nunchucks in random colors, diversity is better. Common nunchaku wooden stick for the original wood color, black. Steel nunchucks are mostly metallic silver color, black.
First of all, let's talk about the length of the nunchaku stick
Do we need a standardized specification for nunchaku? Foreign countries to promote the nunchaku sport has developed some standards, such as nunchaku do-rags,, nunchaku standards. Which have regulations on the length, color and so on. The standard nunchaku length is about 72 centimeters (30 sticks and 12 chains), which can be increased or decreased according to your height and arm length and the different parts of your grip. The diameter of the stick is about 2.7-3 centimeters, and it is connected by a chain or nylon rope in the middle. Generally speaking, people of the same height use sticks of similar size.
Some people customize their nunchucks this way. The length of the nunchaku is the length from their wrist to the tip of their elbow, or the length from the palm of their hand to the tip of their elbow. The average person can learn from this method.
I don't think there should be a standardized nunchaku for the sport of nunchaku, but I started out playing nunchaku with a nunchaku from a steel stick that could be twisted and turned into a stick. At that time there was no other nunchaku to buy. People said Bruce Lee's was longer and mine was too short. I thought about it at the time. But when I thought about it, since these nunchucks were available, there must be some justification for them. As time went on, my nunchaku skills improved and the sport of nunchaku evolved, there were other nunchaku on the market. I bought wooden nunchucks and steel nunchucks from Kenmore. I also made some practice nunchucks of different lengths and sizes. I found that long nunchaku have the advantage of being long, and a weapon is stronger than an inch long. I feel very good when dancing the spiral flower. As for the short nunchaku, I think the short nunchaku to practice the technology, beginners use the beginning always feel that can not catch the other stick, this is normal, play the habit of expanding the joints of the tension. When scholars use Kenroku nunchaku to practice the spiral flower, they always think the chain is too long. It is better to use Wu brand nunchaku because the chain is short. And like us, we have been practicing nunchaku for many years, all kinds of nunchaku can basically be adapted.
Long nunchaku are more difficult to control and less stable than short nunchaku. Short nunchucks practice technique. As for the length of the stick chain, the long chain can be used for actual combat hinge killing and certain neck-wrapping movements. The short chain is convenient for dancing. Some people like heavy stick, some people like light stick. But to practice the technique of heavy stick is better, because the difficulty is, after all, a little more.
With different specifications of nunchaku, such as not accustomed to, after failure, more practice a few times, can enter the state of adaptation.
So I think everyone has a size range of stick length that suits them. And this size range is closely related to height, rope length, and skill level.
Each of us can think about the right size segment for ourselves, what is the shortest acceptable? What is the longest acceptable? Generally speaking the middle of the range must be the smoothest. Of course, for the nunchaku itself, is a short weapon, if you say the stick body length of 100 centimeters can also be, but from a certain point of view, beyond the scope of normal nunchaku, may be that is another topic. If you are a newbie maybe you can't determine your size range at once, mainly because you don't have much experience to appreciate it yet, more practice will give you a feel for it.
Length of the chain (rope)
1, the length of the chain (rope) and the length of the body of the stick are actually interlocked.
Generally speaking, if the stick body is long, the rope is relatively short, and if the stick body is short, the rope is relatively long.
2. The length of the chain (rope) is somewhat related to the user's technical habits.
I will choose the right length of rope from my own technical characteristics, for example, whether the white snake spitting can be powerful or not, the chain (rope) is too long, the white snake spitting will not be very good to play.
Of course, if the length of the rope changes, you can adjust the position of the stick to compensate for the change in the length of the rope. So generally speaking, if the difference between the length of the rope of a strange stick and the length of the rope of one's usual habit is not too much, a good stick practitioner should be able to adapt to it very quickly, but if the difference in the length is too big, I think that, unless there is usually a specific practice, it is not quite accustomed to it for a while.
3, the length of the chain (rope) and the physical quality of some of the relationship
For nunchaku, shoulder ligament flexibility is more important. For example, the back of the body to catch the stick. Take the Union mini rope nunchaku, stick body size itself is small, full length of only 20 centimeters, although the use of rope length and lengthen the length of the same stick, but some stick friends in the practice will be found to do some action when the old can not catch the stick. Then said to lengthen the length of the rope, this is a solution. But from another aspect this solution is not good. Because you have not considered your own situation, are your shoulder ligaments too tight? If the shoulder ligaments are already playing to their physiological limits, then modifying the rope length is imperative. Otherwise, efforts should be made to improve the extension of the shoulder ligaments.
In short, we need to go about adapting to the nunchaku as much as possible, to all kinds of sticks, rather than just letting the nunchaku adapt to us. In fact, you can try to list the different sizes of nunchaku, not only for the length, but also for the weight, rope and steel chain nunchaku can try, which is very beneficial to the improvement of nunchaku art.