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Choy Li Fut Kung Fu Two Section Staff 大梢子棍 The two section staff is one of my favorite kung fu weapons and I personally think it is highly underrated. Not only is it an impressive weapon to watch, it is a challenge to train and develop technique, and it is quite practical as a long weapon.
Two Section Staff Tutorial This is one of the most important set of techniques (to me) because each move is an extremely valuable strike, and the hoist is an excellent way to trap the opponent’s weapon. I give the key to making the trap successful, so pay close attention!!! It may look simple, but the right details will make these moves much more effective!!!
Today I posted an old kung fu documentary that has a ton of different kung fu forms and styles as well as a little mini doc about Jet Li in his early years.
If you click on the video, you can check in the comments for a full time code and list of forms so you can jump right to what you want to see.
Have fun!!!
Check out this rare Choy Li Fut kung fu weapon, the Abacus!!! Add some power and multiply the pain as you subtract the bad guys to make a difference… If you factor everything in you can pretty much sum it up as a badass form!!!
In this combo we use a double weapon flowering or spinning technique which you can learn at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk3pmvNe-eY Otherwise this is a nice combo to warm up and practice your butterfly knives. Have fun!!!
This is the Hung Sing Red Tassel Spear Form of Choy Li Fut Kung Fu. It is traditionally done with many spinning and flowering movements to develop coordination and timing which make the rest of the practical techniques in the form all the more refined. As Grandmaster Doc-Fai Wong says, "You are only as good as you practice." It is important to practice your techniques and combinations with the end goal in mind, to perform the movements as strong and efficient as possible with no wasted movement.We filmed this after a full day of training inside the studio. I was very lucky to be able to film this spear set out at beautiful Fort Funston in San Francisco and on such a beautiful day all thanks to Bryan Hewitt photography, and Justin Hoover the man with a vision and coordinator of a much larger project that I was apart of as well. I shot the footage inside the studio myself but combined the two for this video.
Saw this on facebook today, what in the world is it?
The staff is known as the Grandfather of all weapons. When I learned my first staff form I was unimpressed. It was a bunch of basic techniques hoist, smash, hoist, smash, thrust, press, thrust... It was all too basic, nothing like the stuff I'd seen in the movies. I eventually learned the flowery forms and they were exciting, but it took me a few years to really love the basic staff form. It wasn't until I spent a day dissecting the form, working single move by move, position to position that I learned the true beauty of the form. Each position was an efficient set up for the next move so that maximum power could be achieved in the technique. I began to feel the leverage that I had heard my instructors preach about for years. I saw that if done properly, there were little to no openings for an oncoming attack.
Many nights of drills with Sifu Jason Wong made my foundation stronger, calloused my hands, and made my sparring more intricate like a science rather than the typical brute force I used to rely on. Just when I thought I had a pretty good grasp on the weapon, Grandmaster introduced a new type of staff training to the instructor class. It furthered the vast possibilities of using the staff. I began to truly love the weapon, and see how other weapons are used in relation to the methods and concepts of the staff.
There is an old saying, "Fear a young man's fists, and an old man with a staff." With youth is seemingly endless energy, stamina and endurance. With age comes experience, and with a weapon, experience means everything.
Traditionally, the spear is known as the "king of long weapons." The spear earned this title in the old days of mounted warfare in China, when it and some of its offshoots were the soldier's most important weapons. However, there's another Chinese weapon that, due to its unusual design and large variety of effective techniques against all types of weapons and opponents, may deserve the title "King of all weapons." This exceptional weapon is called a Nine-Dragon Trident (Gau Lung Chah). In its simplest form, the trident has a heavy long weapon, with a large metal head shaped somewhat like a wide, flat pitchfork
I'm officially stoked. Learning the Double Axes has been a goal of mine for many, many years!!! I guess I can stop axing Tai Sifu to axually teach this badaxe form, now we can really hack away at it so I can chop it off my list..... axe. The farmer's hoe is one of my all time favorite performance sets. It is a great length of a form that involves both technical strategy and tactics as well as very beautiful flowering and spinning movements with the weapon. I'll keep the jokes clean here, go to the seminar so you can learn the hoe thing, from beginning to end.... there.
Saam Jit Gwun - Three Sectional Staff - San Jie Gun Choy Li Fut Kung Fu
Twin Hooks Tree Style That is a gnarly looking weapon, looks like it was designed to trap swords and leave some pretty messy wounds.
Still one of my all time favorite forms.... the spins duke, the spins!!!
Taichi Mantis Iron Claw Original post by Alexander Tse and Sifu Teddy Lai
