Conterweighting

[michael]

Is it compleatly neccisary to counterweight you're nunchucku or is it not 100%. i currently have tapered set for my trads but on the set i used in my former cuch off entry they were not weighted they were 100% all wood no metal weights and the same with my faomies.

Counter weighting the ends helps them flow better.

Please discuss.

[Matt-Chez]

i think counterweights are a really bad idea personally, it sort of simultates a taper BUT the weight is not distributed evenly and leads to the top end (cord end) of the chuck to be heavily influenced by vibrations and wobbles in the air due to the un-even ratio of weight from one end to another.

it may make basic spins "flow" better, but when it comes to aerials they're terrible!


taper is a gradual weight increase so the chucks are much more stable.

[Rellizate]

Counterweighting? How can you do that to chucks when both ends way the same anyway? :S


:R

[michael]

i mean same size as in there not tapered but like some peiople put nails into the ends to weight them.

[theraven39]

I think it's a great idea.  I do it to all mine.  I don't really agree that it makes them wobbly or anything.  I suck at aerials just as a rule, but if you take care and make sure that you put the same weight on the end of each stick, they balance eachother out, while simulating the balance of tapers, and without the weakness that thinning the wood out in an actual taper would create.

[jmvicuna]

If the weight is too heavy, in comparison to the rest of the chuck, it would create the effect the Matt said, because the top of the nunchaku (near the rope/chain) will be too light. But, if the weight is not so heavy, it would give you more control.