What kind of nunchaku can we use for sparring? We have 2 options: If we want to do serious sparring with the Nunchaku it is better to wear full body protections (this way we can try to use light wood version) A good alternative is to use plastic / foam versions with cords (unfortunately they […]
Are flexible weapons for attack only? Flexible weapons like the nunchaku (or erroneously “nunchuks”) are very versatile for the attack but we rarely ear speaking of them in purely defensive terms. Nowadays most people use them for individual training, juggling and only in few cases as real weapons or for practical applications (sparring, self-defense, combat sports, […]
How to master flexible weapons Before proceeding with the study of flexible weapons (read Learn to use basic weapons) we must emphasize that: This path must be consistent and absolutely gradual, not rigid weapons are 10 times more difficult to manage in relation to the others The rudiments that we are going to illustrate may seem trivial but […]
After acquiring a good ability rotating circularly our rope on the cube faces (see “Stance and basic rotations of the rope”), we can quickly switch to the most important and effective “8” rotations (describing in the air the symbol of the infinite). These evolutions are a key component of fighting with the rope (and of […]
After the first spontaneous approach with the rope (referred to in the article “Learn to use basic weapons”) we pass on the basic exercises. The elastic rope is one of the founding elements of the 6DKF, it is used at the same time as: A body motion educational instrument A weapon itself (at a more […]
For a total blade beginner, to start to get familiar with a katana (with its shape, grip and partly with his weight / mobility) without spending too much, we can buy a junk product like the one in the photo. When we take a low quality / cost product like this, it is extremely important […]
After quickly describing the didactic stance and the 3 most important typologies of strokes, we are going to expose 5 useful exercises. Exercise 1 (to fortify the wrists): Let’s take our 2 sticks (75cm each one) Let’s properly grip both sticks (as we have already seen) Let’s stretch the left arm in front of us […]
After defining the didactic grip and the basic safety rules, we pass to the guard position. Without going into technical details (which we will see later) here are the basics of the posture that we will have to keep during our first approachs: Our body has to be in a 3/4 position in front of […]
In this discussion we want to define the basics of the short sticks in the 6DKF: The first goal we set ourselves is to educate our body to move like a weapon Later we will learn to use sticks as real weapons (techniques, strokes, disarm, etc.) As we have already seen, the short sticks we […]
Unlike what happens in many other martial arts, the 6DKF’s practitioner begin right away to approach / familiarize with the use of weapons. We can choose whether or not to master the different types of weapons (from Ninjutsu, from Shaolin, etc.) but we can not exempt ourselves from learning the use of the fondamental ones. […]