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- Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:39 pm
- Forum: Test Cutting for Historical Swordsmanship
- Topic: Get a Horse
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15035
Re: Get a Horse
September 1, 1939. Jokes about submarines with screen doors aside, the Polish were still using lances, sabres, and horses quite effectively. (Yes, they had rifles on their backs.) Some terrain just wasn't suitable for mechanized warfare, and, when the tanks showed up, the Poles had to turn tail and ...
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:43 am
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Hanwei Cutting Jian?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 104356
Re: Hanwei Cutting Jian?
Is the guard a clamshell construction or is it a solid piece the tang is fed through?
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 9:35 am
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Hsing - I in the Michuan Sword form?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21801
Re: Hsing - I in the Michuan Sword form?
As someone who has had to modify forms due to need, I'm inclined to agree. Not only should a form meet the situation, but also the practitioner, and the form probably should feed the strengths in practice, and round off the sharp corners of a weakness, however, is there not something to be said for ...
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:15 am
- Forum: Test Cutting for Historical Swordsmanship
- Topic: Dao thrusts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11748
Re: Dao thrusts
Additionally, we've been talking largely about the willow leaf saber. I don't want to start a chicken or the egg arguement here, but one look at the goose quill saber seems to indicate that someone was looking to do just that. Their style had a dao thrust, and they wanted make a dao that is good at ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:18 am
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Advice on finding instruction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8000
Re: Advice on finding instruction
David, You are asking, in a round-about way the same question everyone on this forum asked themselves at first, and the sorry fact is, it can only be answered by asking more questions. Why do you want to learn? Some people want to defend themselves, while some people, even in a world where we turn q...
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:48 am
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Hsing - I in the Michuan Sword form?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21801
Re: Hsing - I in the Michuan Sword form?
Additionally, I can't see how even a pure system would remain unchanged based on the size of china and variations in opponents. The biggest difference I seen in some of the Hubei Xingyi and Shianxi Xingyi is the desire to be a striker or grappler. Shianxi, and Sun, allow for a greater distance in th...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 1:05 pm
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Unknown Sword Form? Can anyone identify it?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9704
Re: Unknown Sword Form? Can anyone identify it?
Mr. Young is correct in that if you can find out the poetic names, it may be easier to track. So much Chinese swordsmanship is parody of others that Hubei Xingyi Jian doesn't look immediately like Shianxi Xingyi Jian, but the theories are similar. Now if a movement was called leopard cat climbs tree...
- Sat May 30, 2009 9:17 am
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Hsing - I in the Michuan Sword form?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 21801
Re: Hsing - I in the Michuan Sword form?
The problem that seems to remain with me though is that I can make my head forget, momentarily, but I don't have a way of telling my body to "shut up, and do what I'm telling you now." Muscles are like high school students. They like consistancy and knowledge of what to do next.
- Wed May 27, 2009 8:42 am
- Forum: Test Cutting for Historical Swordsmanship
- Topic: Dao thrusts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11748
Re: Dao thrusts
To build the forum on general chinese swordsmanship, the xingyi system has thrusts and cuts from zuandao (drilling sabre) and paodao (crushing/cannon sabre) useing a horizontal thrust from a twisting motion, and they can complete across the body with the edge 45 degrees angled up, but can stop horiz...
- Fri May 08, 2009 12:23 pm
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: Old stick
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15856
Re: Old stick
I believe you are correct. It was trained to my eye. It looks like they actually used cords of two different widths to accomplish this, to give you that wide gap, narrow gap pattern. A craftsman with an eye for nature had his hand in it I'm sure.
- Fri May 08, 2009 12:17 pm
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: Tengpai: The Chinese Rattan Shield
- Replies: 15
- Views: 54953
Re: Tengpai: The Chinese Rattan Shield
Thank you for your close and entuned response to my question. You have been informative and have thrown in much to lead me to study on my own. My appreciateion is greater than this note coveys.
- Thu May 07, 2009 10:09 pm
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: short stick form
- Replies: 11
- Views: 31295
Re: short stick form
For what I’m about to write, I’m speaking here from a Xingyichuan perspective, in case some of the things I’m about to mention come out of left field, and I apologize if my explanations are unclear. As someone that carries a cane from need, and consequently has had a lot of time to study it as a wea...
- Thu May 07, 2009 9:23 pm
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: Tengpai: The Chinese Rattan Shield
- Replies: 15
- Views: 54953
Re: Tengpai: The Chinese Rattan Shield
Did they really just "hold the line" or did they have techniques for "shield beating?" All the illustrations I have ever seen from china show swords, but in other cultures and manuals, hooking tools, like axes, show up often, that could pull down a shield for a spearman to poach its carrier. Can any...
- Thu May 07, 2009 9:10 pm
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: Old stick
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15856
Re: Old stick
Do you have a closer shot of that stick's twist? Mr. Pasek is correct in that there are many trees that will develop such with a spiral shape from a vine, however, it looks like it's a rather tight twist, and there are people who groom growing trees to get odd shapes for the sake of woodcraft. The s...
- Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:28 pm
- Forum: Test Cutting for Historical Swordsmanship
- Topic: Component parts of a safer test cutting sword.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9394
Re: Component parts of a safer test cutting sword.
So I see... After I opened this post I had a jian that looked totally safe bend so the tip is three inches off center when doing full speed, or maybe only most speed, xingyi jian forms. It wasn't side to side either. It leaned forward, toward an edge. There was no cutting even involved. I guess I ha...