Freestyle nunchaku

Last updated August 29, 2025

000JFreestyle nunchaku refers to the use of the nunchaku weapon (used in martial arts and popularised by Bruce Lee and other martial artists) in a more visually stunning, rather than combative way. Nunchaku-do competitions are now held where marks are awarded based upon visual display rather than predefined kata.^[1]

Physical Competitions

Freestyle is one of the disciplines of Nunchaku-Do (a sport based upon nunchaku combat freestyle and kata organized by the Nunchaku International Academy, North American Nunchaku Association, and the Stichting Nunchaku Nederland/World Nunchaku Association) freestyle routines are generally judged on the following criteria. ^[2]

Pace and rhythm
Consistency of speed
Variation in techniques
Control and movement
Use of double nunchaku
One risk element with one nunchaku
One risk element with two nunchaku
Dropping the nunchaku
Uniqueness and creativeness in composition
Visual aestheticity of the entire presentation
Application on the entire competition field
Time span of the freestyle
Showmanship and entertainment
Budo/Wushu spirit

International Online Tournaments & Battles

The general interest in freestyle nunchaku has, concurrently with the increasing possibilities of sharing skills and techniques that online video sharing communities such provide, expanded to the point where a freestyle nunchaku movement autonomous from the World Nunchaku Organization has formed.

The Freestyle Nunchaku Forum (FNF) holds tournaments that all members can participate in. These tournaments are held by participants submitting videos that adhere certain rules (which are relaxed, such as length of video and whether other weapons freestyle can be used). When all of the videos are in, members of the forum can vote on who they think is better. The annual "Chuck Off" has varied categories such as: Singles, Doubles, Fire and Glow, and Director. Similarly, the annual "World Cup" welcomes all sort of nunchaku entries, where editing is allowed and compilations are encouraged to present the highest technicality, difficulty, and visual astonishability the player can possibly bring.

The forum also hosts what are called Ladder Battles. Here participants are ranked by number. Those wanting to move up the ranks can challenge any of the three people above them to a "battle". The two people involved submit videos of their freestyle that adhere to certain rules that are agreed upon. Then, forum members have a certain length of time to vote on who they think is the best.

Major Tournaments


Tournament title	AKA	Founding year	One-shot and no-editing rule	Total rounds
Freestyle Nunchaku Forum World Cup (Previously Freestyle Nunchaku World Cup)	WC (Previously FNWC)	2008	No	1
Golden Combo Tournament	GCT	2019	Yes	2
Nunchaku Digit Challenge	NDC	2021	Yes	1

List of Champions


Year	FNF World Cup	Golden Combo Tournament	Nunchaku Digit Challenge
2008	Michael Magi France	-	-
2009	Matt Csesznyak England	-	-
2010	Levi Levier Romania	-	-
2011	Stéphane Oberlé France	-	-
2012	Renato Monte Brazil	-	-
2013	Sweetwind China	-	-
2014	Tanguy Guinchard Switzerland	-	-
2015	Levi Levier Romania	-	-
2016	Vladmir Boolatov Russia	-	-
2017	Howard Lee Philippines Danil Mushinsky Russia	-	-
2018	Naufal Bintang Indonesia	-	-
2019	JJ Nunchaku Belgium	Tanguy Guinchard Switzerland	-
2020	Naufal Bintang Indonesia	Andrea Barra Italy	-
2021	JJ Nunchaku Belgium	Andrea Barra Italy	JJ Nunchaku Belgium
2022	JJ Nunchaku Belgium	Ali Mirani Iran	JJ Nunchaku Belgium
2023	JJ Nunchaku Belgium	Daria Kascheeva Russia	JJ Nunchaku Belgium
2024	JJ Nunchaku Belgium	Daria Kascheeva Russia	Alvin Cheng Hong Kong
2025	Devin Arkfeld United States		Alvin Cheng Hong Kong

Countries Champion Count

Country	WC	GCT	NDC	Total
France	2	0	0	2
England	1	0	0	1
USA	1	0	0	1
China	1	0	0	1
Hong Kong	0	0	2	2
Russia	2	2	0	4
Belgium	5	0	3	8
Romania	2	0	0	2
Switzerland	1	1	0	2
Indonesia	2	0	0	2
Philippines	1	0	0	1
Brazil	1	0	9	1
Iran	0	1	0	1
Italy	0	1	0	1

World Cup - Podium List

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	4th Place	5th Place
2008	SixtyFourWarrior/Michael Magi	NinjaRob	ChuckNasty	Lokos	-
2009	Matt-Chez/Matt Cseszynak	Yetibutt	SetsunaJulien/Julien Cayla Kriztov/Chris Campbell	-	-
2010	Levi/Levi Levier	67Steph67/Stéphane Orberlé	Yetibutt	-	-
2011	67Steph67/Stéphane Orberlé	psionics/Howard Lee	SweetWind	SetsunaJulien/Julien Cayla	-
2012	Renato Monte	67Steph67/Stéphane Orberlé	SetsunaJulien/Julien Cayla	nunchakstyle010	-
2013	SweetWind	-	-	-	-
2014	Monkey-of-Nunchaku/Tanguy Guinchard	-	-	-	-
2015	Levi/Levi Levier	Heyson Xu Tanguy Guinchard	Alexey Bobrishev	nunchakstyle010	-
2016	Vladmir Boolatov	psionics/Howard Lee	Monster Nunchaku ADC	Ricardo de Jong	van3D
2017	Danil Mushinsky psionics/Howard Lee	Naufal Bintang Monster Nunchaku ADC	Shade Ricardo de Jong	nachtschattenvogi	-
2018	Naufal Bintang	SweetWind Monster Nunchaku ADC psionics/Howard Lee	Gia Huy Arjuna Synyster Jr.	Jordan Phang 27	-
2019	JJ Nunchaku	SweetWind	Naufal Bintang	-	-
2020	Naufal Bintang	SweetWind Devmode/Devin Arkfeld	kungfu_nunchaku psionics/Howard Lee	-	-
2021	JJ Nunchaku	Naufal Bintang	SweetWind	wesyleywest/Wesley Gosali	-
2022	JJ Nunchaku	Naufal Bintang	SweetWind	Denis Jessy	-
2023	JJ Nunchaku	Cristian Rodríguez	Lin Qing Fu	-	-
2024	JJ Nunchaku	Daria Kascheeva	Cristian Rodríguez	-	-
2025	Devin Arkfeld	Denis Jessy	Aydin Zoghi	-	-

Golden Combo Tournament - Podium List

Year		1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place
2019	Q1	Tanguy Guinchard	Sergey Voronoy	Tatu Kalliömaki
	Q2	Naufal Bintang	Devin Arkfeld	Przemek Walczak
	Q3	Lin Qing Fu	Jukensh Nunchuks	Andrea Bharrai
	Finals	Tanguy Guinchard	Devin Arkfeld	Lin Qing Fu
2021	Q1	Naufal Bintang	Tatu Kalliömaki	Arjuna DImsyam
	Q2	Devin Arkfeld	Adrian Grabski	Miko Boby Pratama
	QF	Naufal Bintang	Muh. Farhan AR	Arjuna Dimsyam
	SF	Naufal Bintang	Cristian Rodríguez	Ali Mirani
	Finals	Andrea Barra	Naufal Bintang	Cristian Rodríguez
2022	Q1	Yasin Kazmi	Dorian Geradin	Alireza Naseri
	Q2	Cristian Rodríguez	Arjuna Dimsyam	Romain Pernot
	SF	Cristian Rodríguez	Naufal Bintang	Dorian Geradin
	Finals	Ali Mirani	Romain Pernot	Cristian Rodríguez
2023	QR	Cristian Rodríguez	Daria Kascheeva	Ali Mirani
	SF	Daria Kascheeva	Cristian Rodríguez	Romain Pernot
	Finals	Daria Kascheeva	Aydin Zoghi	Cristian Rodríguez
2024	QR	Aydin Zoghi	Jessy Denis	Daria Kascheeva
2024	Finals	Daria Kascheeva	Aydin Zoghi	Perry Vollering
2025	QR	Cristian Rodríguez	Devin Arkfeld	Andrea Barra
2025	Finals

Nunchaku Digit Challenge - Podium List

Year	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place
2021	JJ Nunchaku	M. Sajid Ala Muhib	Andry Wijaya
2022	JJ Nunchaku	Naufal Bintang	River Lin
2023	JJ Nunchaku	Daria Kascheeva	Cristian Rodríguez
2024	Alvin Cheng	Bryon McCroskey	Ben Tucker
2025	Alvin Cheng	Bryon McCroskey	River Lin

Countries Podium Count

Country	WC	GCT	NDC	Total
France	9	1	0	10
England	1	0	1	2
USA	6	1	2	9
China	9	1	0	10
Hong Kong	0	0	4	4
Russia	6	2	1	9
Belgium	5	0	3	8
Romania	2	0	0	2
Switzerland	2	1	0	3
Indonesia	9	1	3	13
Philippines	5	0	0	5
Algeria	3	0	0	3
Brazil	1	0	0	1
Netherlands	2	1	0	3
Iran	1	3	0	4
Austria	1	0	0	1
Italy	0	1	0	1
Chile	2	3	1	6
Vietnam	2	0	0	2

References

↑ "- freestyle competitions Archived 2005-02-09 at the Wayback Machine " World Nunchaku association, Nov 2006
↑ "- Freestyle Rulebook 2003 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}" world nunchaku association, 1 May 2003

External links

freestyleforum.net Archived 2006-11-03 at the Wayback Machine - International freestyle nunchaku forum
nunchakututorials.com - A complete free site with all the freestyle tricks and moves

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[1] "- freestyle competitions Archived 2005-02-09 at the Wayback Machine " World Nunchaku association, Nov 2006

[2] "- Freestyle Rulebook 2003 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}" world nunchaku association, 1 May 2003

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