Ching Ping Jian (Straight Sword) (青萍劍) Form One and Applications

Ching Ping Jian Shu (青萍劍術), or Green Duckweeds Straight Sword Techniques, are well-known straight sword forms of Chinese Taoist martial arts. According to a document written in 1856, the techniques originated from the Taoist Pan-Zhen (潘真道人) who resided in the Long-Hu Mountain of the Jiangxi Province and have been passed down from generation to generation for more than one hundred years. The techniques are organized into six forms and the total number of movements is 365. The form in the video is based on the book by Lu Jun-Hai (卢俊海), et al, entitled Ching Ping Jian Shu (1989, People's Physical Education Publication Co.). Sifu Wei-Chung Lin (林維中) has modified some of the movements to make them more consistent with the internal martial arts body mechanics.

In the video, Alma Kalamperovic (12 years old) demonstrates Ching Ping Jian Form One and its applications. She has been training with Sifu Wei-Chung Lin of the Chinese Taoist Martial Arts Association in Skokie (a northern suburb of Chicago), Illinois ( http://ctmaa.com/ ) for almost three years.

The body mechanics employed in the execution of the movements are based on the Pre-Heaven Power Method. The details of the Pre-Heaven Power Method can be found in http://americanyzy.com/

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[goobtron]

What sash does he have?

[taipingvlg]

When she did this video, she held a purple sash.

[swordmaestre]

What a silly application? No one attacks like that.

[taipingvlg]

To swordmaestre: The applications were just the interpretations of the movements in the form. In a demonstration done in a martial arts school where safety of the students is always a concern, one can only try to be as realistic as possible when served as the attacker.

[teamshintaichi]

love the effort put into learning this but I suggest that you perform applications with more realistic opponents. the attackers had very limited movement and did only a limited number of attacks. If you are going against an opponent who has any idea what they are doing then they wil surely know how to counter some of your attacks if not all of them. try using wooden swords to perform as many of the techniques with different rections.Not disrespecting, just trying to help.

[leejw512c]

Hi ! The girl practice very good ! A few years later ,she will become a very good teaching assistant.

[ChishioAme]

I'm almost sorry I watched this. The girl's good, no doubt about it, but those applications present an extremely unrealistic representation of sword combat.

[RelativelyBest]

Question: Why do some attacks appear to include lifting one foot for no apparent reason?

[jingwu42]

@VillainousHanacha it has its not very popular in the states

[VillainousHanacha]

(cont). much older and wider combat systems (Kenjutsu and HEMA respectively), and regardless of whether or not Kendo and Fencing are "dumbed down" versions of their predacessors, I wonder why exactly did this process not happen in China, where many different Jian and/or Dao forms were unified into a single system of Fencing?

[VillainousHanacha]

I have a question to anyone who is willing to answer.

Why is it that Chinese Martial Arts never developed a codefied system of Fencing or Swordplay? The Japanese have Kendo, and the Western Europe developed Sport Fencing. Why is there no Chinese equivalent? This is expecially curious considering Modern China's push for Contemporary Wushu and the very unified systems it created, like Nanquan.

Regardless of the fact that Kendo and Fencing are very modernized and sport-friendly versions of...

[13monkees]

I think she was great! Nice work.



[kathrynrain]

Wow, thanks! I added to favourites!

[kathrynrain]

Beautiful!!! I'm so impressed! You're very talented and impressive for your age, you'll be a great sword fighter one day! :)

[bladesaint21]

@Momentimum Yeah whatever. What I DO like about Orthodox fighters, theyre so damned predictable to a fault. I almost feel guilty when I put them on their asses..But catch myself and laugh.