Double Sword Form

A form using two Chinese Broad Swords (Dao) which is taught alongside with Pak Mei Kung Fu in our school.

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Sports

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• double
• swords
• dao
• kung
• fu
• form

[eteune]

look, this guy looks like he knows what he is doing, I am just wondering why people, in general, do not practice forms with full weight and feel swords albeit unsharpened?

that's all

[CMASNZ]

It's a reasonable question. I can't answer for everyone, but personally: price. For real (but blunted) swords, I've been quoted prices starting at NZD3000 (~USD2000). I'm sure you can find solid swords for cheaper, but everything martial arts stores sell here are spring steel for under NZD100. Solid blades are harder to get and more expensive, especially with shipping to NZ on top. Personally, I focus on fist forms and so it would be hard to justify the effort and cost.

[CMASNZ]

Oh, also, I imagine that the reason spring steel was used in the video was that it is what is typically (or exclusively) used in performances and competitions at the moment. We do have a solid pair of double swords, among other solid weapons, in the gym.

[eteune]

why do so many people practice forms with thin little pieces of tin foil like these instead of actual practice swords???

it really denigrates the sport

[CMASNZ]

Subsequent trolling (and the replies which were too out of place without the original posts) have been removed. As I've said on other videos, please try to keep discussions focused on martial arts and opinions of the videos, not personal attacks. Thanks.

[CMASNZ]

I should also clarify, the above comment is not directed at eteune.

[MrKnifeandfork]

Level : asian

[Ginko26]

@CELT2012 No one really fights goes into combat with weapons like these anymore, but I understand your frustration, I felt the same when I first started learning kung fu. My guess is primarily the ease of making these 'softer' versions. Also they're called performance weapons I believe, mainly to get that sound when you snap the blade during movements (and to prevent serious injuries).

[CELT2012]

@eteune i totaly agree , as one whos competed in weapons forms , ive always been frustrated at the use of fake and i do mean fake weapons , not only by the wushu stylist but as of recent yrs ie the last decade even the japanese stylist have gone to using versions of such, thin light wieght bos that if dropped on the floor would break kamas made of alumium tubing and thin aluminium blades ,, its just wrong on sooo many levels,, the techniques have gone from combat to fucking girls batton twirling

[Swordsage]

This is a pretty interesting form. Lots of simultaneous defense and counter movements, and unless I'm mistaken, there also seems to be several movements against long weapons like spears. Beautifully performed too: very smooth, with strong stances. Great display of martial skills. :)

[baikabaga]

I love how the swords wrap around the body in this stance. and every hit looks so powerful because of the momentum behind it. great job!

[gmanisstillhere]

This video proves that everything in weapons play, like all martial arts, is in your stance work. So many videos I've seen on youtube with all flashy arm/weapon movements, but the stances were atrocious. Excellent work in this video!

[MaiAriSquee]

Oh, that was beautiful! Go kid! :D I'd love to learn how to do that. X3

[eteune]

Excellent advice!

however, with kids, college, the mortgage, biannual trips to Asia for family and eventual retirement staring me in the face, paying another $200/month for some martial arts teacher membership thing just isn't possible

I did the martial arts training with a teacher thing back when I was young, single, living in Asia and had money to burn.

I am building off of that training and the fundamentals I learned and adding to it via youtube videos.

Good reminder to use fundamentals.

[Damagetua]

weapons go hand in hand with fist forms, so I would practice with them, properly mind you. instead of looking for clips go find a teacher to teach you with a real sword

[eteune]

Fair enough. After shopping around a bit, I found 3 types of broadswords, "Wushu" steel, which can be bent almost back on itself, Spring Steel, which can be bent to 90 degrees and Combat Steel, which cannot be bent. You can get combat steel broadswords for less than $100, sometime for two of them!

Probably not the highest quality, but twice as thick as spring steel.

I will continue to search for someone doing sword forms using combat steel blades.

thanks.