The Nunchaku, referred to by the commoner as Nunchuks, is a weapon that is as elegant as it is lethal. Master Ken is no commoner and therefore solely refers to this deadly weapon by its proper and correct nomenclature: the Nunchaku (pronounced Noon-cha-koo). The video below is a coveted series by the Michael Jordan of martial arts simply known as Master Ken and the series is titled Master Ken’s Critiques.

In this series, viewers submit home videos and Master Ken expertly tells them exactly what they are doing incorrectly and the correct way in which they should be performing whatever exercise or skill they are so miserably and clearly failing at.

In the video seen below, we witness a home video submitted by a viewer who clearly has zero experience in the lethal art in which Master Ken created known as Ameri-do-te. The gentleman seen below, clearly has done nothing but watch Michael Angelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, hell of a movie by the way but I digress, videos and possibly a few baton twirling contests as his ‘routine’, if you will, has no practical application what so ever and as Master Ken so eloquently points out; if he were to use these maneuvers, or stunts or whatever, in a real fight he would more than likely get killed or at the very least maimed.

If you have ever wondered what true weapon mastery looks like and its real life applications then look no further than the video below where Master Ken teaches how to properly execute several Nunchaku self-defense maneuvers. I do not advocate violence of any kind however; I do advocate that you do yourself a favor and stop referring to Nunchaku style weaponry as Nunchuks…you are just making yourself look dumb.

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Jacob C. Stevens is a lifelong athlete and cerebral martial arts enthusiast who is also skilled in the art of linguistic manipulation, his published work, Afterthoughts and Handgrenades, can be found here…