Trad CMA Weapon Forms

Discussion in 'Kung Fu' started by onyomi, Jun 29, 2006.

  1. onyomi

    onyomi 差不多先生

    Here's my teacher doing some traditional weapons forms. The first, San-cai Jian, is a famous form created at the Nanjing Central Martial Arts Institute established by the Republic of China. The second, Yanqing Sabre, is a traditional Praying Mantis weapons form.

    San-cai Jian:
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-16-cfdThY"]YouTube[/ame]

    Yanqing Sabre:
    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEMirBgcC0A"]YouTube[/ame]
     
  2. Angelsweet

    Angelsweet Banned Banned

    Cool! Very neat and tidy form.

    Quite different from the darn dao forms we practice.
    I have a video of me performing a dao form but there's no way i'd post it here incase everybody thought it was crap!
     
  3. TheMightyMcClaw

    TheMightyMcClaw Dashing Space Pirate

    Gorgeous!
    It seems like you've got a good gig going there in Taiwan.
    Tell me - aside from sabre, what other weapons are used in your style of gongfu?
     
  4. onyomi

    onyomi 差不多先生

    My shifu's very good with staff, spear, dao and jian, but his favorite weapons are jian and spear. In addition to San-cai jian, he also knows a lot of Mantis jian, as that could be considered Mantis's signature weapon (Mantis being my teacher's primary style). He's also practiced western fencing and says a lot of jian can be applied, though the rules are restrictive. One of his favorite spear forms is called Yang Family Spear (not related to Yang Taiji). He's also very good with the rope dart, tiger head double hooks and a variety of other strange weapons.

    Here's the list of weapons forms he knows (you're a Chinese studies major, right?):http://www.kungfuloung.com.tw/chuen6.htm
    I really wanna see him do the Drunken Ground Broadsword form, but I'm a bit scared to learn it myself. ;)

    I personally have only learned the basics of staff, jian and dao plus a smidgen of rope dart. I hope to go into all of them more once I feel I have a pretty good handle on the empty-handed stuff (in several years, most likely).
     
    Last edited: Jun 30, 2006
  5. DRMA

    DRMA Valued Member

    Good stuff onyomi. Do you have any vids of your master or someone good doing any of the main fist forms in Mantis.
     
  6. onyomi

    onyomi 差不多先生

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9ygvXt4x0"]Beng Bu Quan - YouTube[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFRIkjRd_VY"]Meihua-luo - YouTube[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcSerD0uGj4"]Meihua-quan - YouTube[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVGCXHxiDHk"]Meihua-shou - YouTube[/ame]
     
  7. Mei Hua

    Mei Hua Banned Banned

  8. oldman

    oldman Banned Banned

    Beautiful to watch the Yanqing Dan-dao
     
  9. onyomi

    onyomi 差不多先生

    My shifu's lineage is 7*, but he does all of the major traditional branches of Mantis (7*, 6 Harmony, Meihua, etc.). Most of the forms I've learned from him so far have been 7*, with the exception of one 6 Harmony and one Meihua.
     
  10. M-Col

    M-Col New Member


    I love the san cai jian set. That's one of those sets that the first half matches the second half and it can be done either solo or as a 2 man form.
     
  11. Angelus

    Angelus Waiting for summer :D

    You guys whild check out some CLF forms.. they look very nice
     

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