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Wow! Talk about a subjective question.
What is the situation?
Are you talking about for modern, practical use?
Or are you talking about for fighting an armed and armored opponent?
There are so many things that impact the answer of this question.
The skill of the user is one. Escrima will almost immediately give a user an advantage. A nunchaku will immediately give the user a disadvantage, if he doesn't know how to use them.
Escrima are easier to control, nunchaku provide more power. Escrima provide for multiple rapid strikes, nunchaku are best at single crushing attacks.
For modern use, escrima are more practical. They are easier to carry without being questioned. For that matter, if you aren't carrying weapons, it's more likely you'll be able to pick something up and use it like escrima. Also, if you were attacked by unarmed opponents, it would be easier to use escrima in order to defend yourself without causing large amounts of injury. With a nunchaku, you'd have to limit yourself to holding both halves in the same hand and jabbing/clubbing. (Although I suppose you could use them to bind an opponent's arm) In court, if your armament for defense far outclasses the attacker's, you're in trouble.
Likely escrima, but again it would depend upon your skill level and a few other things. Can you justify using the full power of a nunchaku? If you can, the two become much closer in that situation, as you can, conceivably take one person out of the fight for each attack with a nunchaku. Possible to do with escrima, but requires more accurate strikes.
it all depends on the situation, who you;re fighting, how many ppl you're fight, you're skill level, what you;re comfortable with etc etc too many variables
Personally, I'd rather have a katana in all the above described situations... but if I had to chose, i'd go with escrima. At the level I am at now, if I used dual nunchaku, i'd really hurt myself against multiple attackers.
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nunchaku are extremly useful against an unarmed group of people or a person with a knife.
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Originally Posted by 47MartialMan
No, what I am saying is that they are impractical, useless.
Jalek I'm with you 100% they are easy to hide on your persons you can generate a lot of power and there are some wicked locks that can be applied useing one hand,
In Canada I can train with nunchaku in a dojo but I can not bring them to the dojo are take them home. but as a part of studing a traditional art I can use them in a dojo.
martialman, there may be other weapons that I would go for first but I would have a hard time saying that nunchaku are useless and impractical, I thought You were saying that they are so practical that you can see why they would make them prohbited.
To add to my original post I would have to go with an escrima stick again because a cane can be used in very similar,methods and is able to be carried ight along side you out in the open to use quickly if needed.
This is a good question, lol. Personally I would choose the nunchaku, because I have more experience wielding them. I know how to use the escrima, but I can better disguise my intentions with nunchaku.
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which weapon is better?
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