My curiosity will probably get me killed here....

[Midnight]

....but I have to know.

Only recently have I been reading this particular board in the forums. And I stumbled across a post that seemed to poke fun at specific martial weapons....most notably, the nunchaku and sai.

Someone wanna fill me in....it seems like its been a long running forum joke.

[Midnight]

strange no responce yet, there were more than just one person involved in the discussion....

[Losttrak]

I have no knowledge of any inside joke concerning chucks or sai, personally.

[David Jamieson]

well, the inside joke is that they are not chinese martial arts weapons.

is that a joke though? or is it just the guys who run "kungfu" schools but teach karate who are a joke?

is that an inside joke though? or is it right there like a turd on the table?

seriously, I'll point at the turd on the table and say "hey, isn't that a turd on the table?" lol "of course it is" better wipe it off.

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by Kung Lek
well, the inside joke is that they are not chinese martial arts weapons.

is that a joke though? or is it just the guys who run "kungfu" schools but teach karate who are a joke?

is that an inside joke though? or is it right there like a turd on the table?

seriously, I'll point at the turd on the table and say "hey, isn't that a turd on the table?" lol "of course it is" better wipe it off.

wait doesnt wah lum have the nunchucks and sai as weapon forms?

[n0rmann]

I study Chen taiji at a Wah lum school and I've never seen them using sais or nunchuks. They use the three sectional staff, double butterfly swords and double daggers.

[Royal Dragon]

I don't know about Numb Chucks, but I do seem to remember some Southern Chinese schools have the Sai. It's called something else, and it is used a bit differently than the standard Karate version.

[Shaolinlueb]

so WL doesnt use NC or Sai's.
but doesnt shaolin-do?

[Judge Pen]

Some schools claiming southern chinese heritage do use sai and a nunchucku, and that has been debated as whether it is traditional or evidence that they are fake or subsummed into their art after it left Southern China. Please read those threads for the specifics; however, both the sai and nunchucku have been recently featured in KFM which sparked some of the discussion here.

[MasterKiller]

It has yet to be proven whether or not those Southern styles either imported or exported the weapons in question.

[SifuAbel]

The sai, a common hand pitchfork, and the nunchaku, a common rice flail, were used by many asian countries in farming rice. The chinese version of these impliments were slightly longer.

They can appear in styles that have a provincial background.

[backbreaker]

It's funny how simple tools are now viewed as exotic deadly weapons by a lot of people.

[travelsbyknight]

the sai is a southern praying mantis weapon. I doubt they were used to catch swords and break them like Rapheal, the ninja turtle, used them. They were used to striking and ripping.

That's what I heard anyway.


There are very few weapons on the "street" that can be used like nunchucks.

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by backbreaker
It's funny how simple tools are now viewed as exotic deadly weapons by a lot of people.

A screwdriver is deadly if I stick it in your eyeball.

[Shaolinlueb]

Originally posted by travelsbyknight
the sai is a southern praying mantis weapon. I doubt they were used to catch swords and break them like Rapheal, the ninja turtle, used them. They were used to striking and ripping.

That's what I heard anyway.


There are very few weapons on the "street" that can be used like nunchucks.

hey man, havent you seen kung pow? he uses to gerbals or something as nunchucks.
like sifu abel im sure most people knew they were farming weapons, jsut weather or not the styles incorporated them, i think msot people think of japanese styles when nthey say nunchuck or sai is what im guessing.