Press release from Film Source Australia
As is the case with every exciting action film, quite often it is the battle between good and evil and the methods adopted to resolve their differences that leaves the audience on the edge of their seat, waiting in anticipation for the outcome.
For the good and evil cast of The Ninja, they will be bringing to the screen for the first time ever, an explosive new style of fighting involving Nunchakus.
The style, simply known as American Style Nunchakus, was created by Michael L. Burke, a 6th dan black belt and three time nunchaku weapons champion from Richmond, Virginia who during his sessions, began to integrate the use of nunchakus into his training techniques.
Following years of practice, Michael was given an opportunity by a Grand Master in New York, Sensi Brian Lee, to turn his technique into a credited style and the American Style Nunchaku was born.
From 1990, Michael began to produce a series of videos that were dedicated to the advanced techniques and nunchakus weapon styles and soon, many martial arts students from across America began practicing the style and winning tournaments using it.
Today, as the style continues to gain attention and support from the martial arts community, Rob Baard admits he saw an opportunity to bring American Style Nunchakus to a mass audience, saying that, “The nunchakus style and techniques were created as a fast realistic hard hitting style which complements what we’re doing with the film by making everything as real as possible. When the audience see this style in action, they are going to be amazed.”
Rob further added “For its first appearance on the big screen, it is extremely impressive and our training with Michael has already begun. He has been really helpful and we look forward to having him on location during production as an advisor.”
The use of American Style Nunchakus, combined with the use of Kuji-In “ninja magic”, will see martial arts action sequences taken to a new level on the big screen giving the audience something fresh, new and visually exciting. And the best part, it is all real!