Never Give Up

Flow of Perseverance

Never Give Up

Within Nunchaku de Combat, this phase represents one essential principle: do not give up.Training confronts you with mistakes, loss of control, and doubt. The nunchaku responds immediately to every inaccuracy. Your perseverance is tested here. The real combat is not against an opponent, but against the urge to stop. Those who continue develop strength.

Those who endure develop flow.

The Foundation of Combat

This is the beginning for anyone who has never held a nunchaku and wants to learn the basic techniques. Training is deliberately done with a real wooden nunchaku — not plastic, not a soft version.
Techniques are learned from a stationary position, without footwork. This creates a foundation you can always return to.
For most people, this first phase is painful and confronting. Control is lacking, and mistakes are inevitable. Many stop at this point. But this is exactly where perseverance must begin. You develop not only control over the nunchaku, but control over yourself.
If it were easy, everyone would do it. Choosing a softer nunchaku may make it easier, but it removes an essential part of the experience.

Development Through Phases

Nunchaku de Combat is built around different forms of combat or challenge. Each phase represents a step in the practitioner’s development.
In the second phase, the nunchaku becomes an extension of yourself. Through footwork, combinations, and kata, continuity emerges. Thinking gradually fades into the background; movement becomes instinctive. Freedom and flow become central.
The third phase focuses on working with an opponent — real or imagined. Blocking, evasion, timing, distance, and the integration of attack and defense come together in a continuous learning process. These stages are not final destinations, but phases you repeatedly return to. Each return deepens mastery. The true combat, however, always remains internal. Mastery of the nunchaku begins with mastery of yourself.
Through dojo training, competitions, demonstrations, freestyle, acrobatics, training with INOX metal nunchaku, or deepening your understanding of the nunchaku as a weapon, martial art, and way of life, you continue to challenge yourself. On this journey, the Enso Circle serves as a compass — guiding you back to every challenge in an improved form.