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Bruce Lee's Nunchaku Chain Connection

posted 11 years ago by sd619rules
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I have always wondered why we have never seen the nunchakus used in Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon or Fist of Fury in a magazine or on display, and have always wondered how the chain was connected to the nunchakus.

I watched Enter the Dragon in HDTV yesterday, recorded it, and played back the nunchaku scem several times, and I mean several times! The nunchakus used in ETD had a small metal ball somehow connected inside the top of the wooden nunchaku, and then it had a CLIP that connected it to the long chain! I had never been able to see this before, but with HDTV and a 60 inch HDTV to view it on you can clearly see this clip, at the top of both nunchaku, connecting to the chain.

It is identical to the type of clips used on a lanyard (that goes around your neck and holds a badge). If you record ETD in Hi Def, and have a large screen, you will clearly see this clip holding the chain to the wooden sticks, which have some sort of round metal piece sticking out the top (which seems to rotate), here is exactly what it looks like;

http://image.ec21.com/image/bosinhardware/OF0020131969_1/Sell_lanyard_ hook_lanyard_clip.jpg

[–] maxzorindresden 11 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBcNNOYMOU

I own one of his nunchucks , usually he used dummy ones for the films (for example bendy ones in "Fist of Fury" fight scene in the dojo or vs Inosanto in "Game")

[–] sd619rules 11 years ago

The GOD sticks were clearly light weight rubber or paper mache, so obvious. The chain connection was what I had always wondered about, and the ones in ETD and ROTD are very different because of that clip on the ones in ETD, and I was shocked to see it in Hi Def!

[–] Tresix 10 years ago

The first time I ever saw nunchaku was in magazines like "Black Belt" and "Fighting Stars". The ones I saw there had holes drilled into the wood and were connected with a cord instead of a chain. I didn't even know what they were for when I first saw them. I didn't learn until I saw Lee using them in "The Chinese Connection" ("Fist of Fury" everywhere else).

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