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Great stuff! I'm not much of a kata fan, but the stage fighting and your nunchaku work were awesome. Did anyone else notice the song starts off with a non-word?
 

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I agree, the nunchaku stuff looked great. Shows you've spent ages practicing in your bedroom, whacking yourself round the elbows and in the back of the head over the past few yrs!:)
 
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swiftpete said:
Shows you've spent ages practicing in your bedroom, whacking yourself round the elbows and in the back of the head over the past few yrs!:)

You study that style too, huh?

That's why I never owned a pair of the foam chucks, the "feedback" of the wood ones are a lot better.
 

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My son saw some foam nunchakus the other night, and I had to explain to him that the foam was there to protect the user, not the partner! But I too always used (octagonal) wooden ones for the feedback. Ya gotta know how you're doing.
 
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Me too, I learned on a pair of 18oz octagons with a chain. I always made sure that I practiced in hearing distance on someone waiting to hear a "Crack!!" so they could come check on me!
 

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bignick said:
Not bad for 6'5'' and 340 lbs, eh?

No. Very good. I really enjoyed watching.

I just found out that my similiarly sized Physics professor friend studied ballet for years. (not equating your MA with dance, only the idea that large people can be graceful as well as powerful).
 
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Well, hopefully there will be less of me in the future...the goal is to be under 300 by the time I graduate in May...
 

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arnisador said:
Good luck with that. Forty pounds by May seems a reasonable, though not easy, goal.

Yeah, he'll get it though. Trust me.

Also, you want more footage for that tape? 'cause we can do that.
 
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Shirt Ripper said:
Yeah, he'll get it though. Trust me.

Also, you want more footage for that tape? 'cause we can do that.

Yeah, but that Pizza Hut today didn't help...

Yeah, swing by sometime and we'll video some more stuff...
 

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A video of you two guys eating pizza? Dude, I'll pass!

(And why haven't I gotten an invitation to share some pizza?)
 

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arnisador said:
A video of you two guys eating pizza? Dude, I'll pass!

(And why haven't I gotten an invitation to share some pizza?)

Shoot, I'd watch it...while eating pizza. Yes!
 
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Yeah, in case anyone hadn't figured it out...I know this cat...

He's my goto guy on topics of health/fitness/etc...
 

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I'm eager to see a few clips of this nunchaku work without the badwidth problems. I also couldn't see the pictures either, bad deal. >_<
 
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If anybody has any problems with the clip and wants to see it...I can email it to you no problem...just PM me...it's just not good enough to ask Bob to host it here yet...
 

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Finally saw it, not too shabby. You need to put footwork into your chucks stuff and stop looking like you're holding your breath though (makes a flexible weapon seem rigid). The self defense stuff looked amazing though, good speed, excellent breakfalls. Overall, I liked it.
 
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yeah, actually, the chucks are really just filler until I can get a bunch of the other students filmed...didn't have time to plan anything....just started whipping them around...

Good ideas though...
 

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