Eighteen kinds of weapons -- stick

Eighteen kinds of weapons (fourteen) a stick

Stick is also known as "stick", the ancient times more called the stick for the "club", although the name is different, is really a thing.

The stick is a weapon without edge, known as "the first of a hundred soldiers". Stick has a long history, is one of the main production tools of primitive society, is also one of the earliest weapons used in war. Length of about 1.3-2.6 meters, there are up to 4 meters long, the cross-section is generally round, thickness to one hand can grasp prevail.

The stick is a melee weapon, its range of attack is greater than the knife, gun, since ancient times there is a "stick sweep a large area" said. However, the stick mainly causes blunt force injury and bruises, and its lethality is smaller than that of knives and guns.

Primitive ancient times, the ancients lived in caves, often attacked by poisonous snakes and fierce beasts, there is no sharp edges to defense; mountains are everywhere in the trees, the ancients often use branches as self-defense weapons, so the other weapons, or all iron, or iron with a wooden handle, only stick is completely wooden, and manufacturing is very simple, from the stick a little stick to the stick root, there is no curvature, just a rounded quality of the wood rod. The stick is very simple to manufacture, from the stick to the root, there is no curve, just a rounded wooden pole.

Stick by sandalwood jujube chestnut juniper and other wood, either with the solidity of the wood, or with the flexibility of the wood, in short, in order to not easily broken for the best; such as the ash pole, because it is soft, and more than not used.

In the struggle against Japanese invaders in the Ming Dynasty, some local monks used to be equipped with a large number of iron rods as weapons, which effectively suppressed the power of the Japanese long swords, and after the emergence of firearms, the stick became an instrument for martial arts sports, and withdrew from the military arena.

The stick is the long weapon of martial arts. There are two kinds of sticks: wooden and metal. Wooden sticks include qimei stick, three-section stick, two-section stick and so on. Metal stick has iron head stick, muddy iron stick, muddy copper stick. There are also iron sticks with teeth and hooks, such as claw stick, wolf tooth stick, hook stick and so on. Dynasties and generations of both military martial arts and folk martial arts, are particularly important to the stick.

The weight of the stick is usually about a few kilograms, made of hard wooden poles, such as the Chinese army of the Song Dynasty commonly used "pole stick" "white stick" and so on; there are also some sticks made of metal, the weight of the larger, up to dozens of kilograms, known as the "iron staff". "Iron staff" "Iron Pei", such as "Journey to the West" in the Monkey King used the golden hoop rod.

After the founding of New China, the stick is listed as one of the wushu competition. Most of them are made of white wax poles. According to the "Wushu Competition Rules" stipulates that the length of the stick shall not be lower than my height. Therefore, there is a "stick flush chest, stick flush eyebrow" said. The parts of the stick can be divided into three parts: the body of the stick, the root of the stick and the tip of the stick, and the head of the stick is the top of the thinner end of the stick. The head of the stick is the top of the thinner end of the stick, the root of the stick is the bottom of the thicker end of the stick, and the tip of the stick is the thin end of the stick. The stick art is characterized by valor, speed and versatility.

Shaolin stick: a kind of stick. Wooden, eight feet to eight feet five inches long, the body of the general thickness. Legend has it that it was used by Shaolin monks in the Ming Dynasty for martial arts training.

Qimei stick: a kind of stick. Often made of white wax rod, thick with full handle, stick vertical and human eyebrow height Qi, so get this name.

Panhua stick: because of its stick body carved with flowers, so it got its name walking stick wooden: in the middle of the stick body has a prominent horizontal crutch, about seven or eight inches long, so the name.

Lianzhu stick: consists of a long stick and two short sticks. Each stick has an iron hoop at each end, and there are iron rings on the hoop, connecting with each other. When you use both hands to swing the long stick, at the same time drive the two short stick.

Water and fire stick: the stick for the use of the ancient times. It is shaped like a short stick. Half of the stick is painted red and half is painted black. Red is the color of fire, black is the color of water, so the name.

Long Tip Stick: a kind of stick. By the length of the two different sticks connected by iron rings and become. The length of the short stick is half that of the long stick. When practicing, hold the end of the long stick with one hand and use the long stick to drive the short stick when dancing.

Two-Headed Tip Stick: A long stick with a short stick at each end, connected to the long stick by three iron rings, the middle ring of the three rings on both sides can also be added two rings for the ring, equipped with a ringing sound, the head and tail of the dance.

Lianzhu Double Stick: It consists of a long stick and two short sticks connected to each other. Three iron rings are connected between the heads of the sticks.

Usage

1. Pivot: The tip of the stick is swung diagonally forward and upward, and then swung left and right as a pivot; when pivoting the stick, the force is light and smooth, and the amplitude should not be too large.

2. Sweeping Stick: the tip of the stick is swung horizontally below the waist; or the tip of the stick is pressed against the ground as far as possible, and the stick is swung at an angle as sweeping. Sweeping the stick requires swiftness and strength, and the force reaches the tip of the stick.

3. Swinging the stick: with one or both hands, the tip of the stick is swung flat to the left or right. The flat swing shall not exceed one week, plus the turn shall not exceed two weeks. Swinging the stick requires swiftness and strength, and the force reaches the tip of the stick.

4. Poking Stick: The tip of the stick or the handle of the stick is poked in a straight line forward, sideways or backward. Poke stick requires short and sharp force, and the force reaches the end of the tip or the end of the handle.

5. Splitting Stick: The stick is split from top to bottom. It is required to be swift and powerful, and the force reaches the tip of the stick.

6. Dancing in a circle: Holding the middle part of the stick with both hands, the stick rotates around the circle from upward to forward and downward on both sides of the body. It is required to be continuous and fast, and very close to the body when walking in a circle.

7. Lift and Tease Dancing Flower: Hold the stick 1/3 of the way from the end of the handle with both hands, and make the stick continuously teasing out along the left and right sides of the body from downward to forward and upward in a vertical circle. Requirements for fast and consistent, round swing should be close to the body but not touch the body.

The stick master Bruce Lee

Legendary nunchaku is the Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin founded, originally known as the big Panlong stick (modern northern also known as the big sweeper) and small Panlong stick (small sweeper). But at that time, the big Panlong stick one end is shorter, one end is longer, dedicated to sweeping the enemy horse feet, broken armor soldiers or hard weapons class, so that it is incapable of fighting. Later this weapon was spread from the south to the Philippines and from the east to Japan.

Due to the changes in history, the nunchaku was changed to its current form: 72cm in length, with each section of the stick being 30cm long, with a chain or nylon rope in the middle, about 12cm long. Bruce Lee's nunchaku is the standard 72cm nunchaku, which is different from the traditional size of the Panlong Stick.

The king of kung fu, Bruce Lee, excelled in the use of nunchucks. His nunchaku technique was perfect, the peak of perfection, swift and extraordinary. In the movie, he wielded the nunchucks in a majestic manner that is still admired to this day. Critics at the time said that just watching Bruce Lee perform nunchucks was enough for the price of a ticket.

Nunchucks accompanied Bruce Lee's kung fu movie since, because it is a soft with hard, soft in the steel weapon, with the ability to put in and out, short and compact, easy to carry, the advantages of the power of the melee, and therefore widely circulated around the world. According to foreign police investigations, nunchaku in the actual combat power is only second to the pistol.

After a lot of hard practice and study, Bruce Lee's nunchaku method has reached a more extreme level. His nunchaku method, moves fierce and biting, dazzling, as long as you have seen his films, you know that it is not like some of the traditional "flowery" "troupe" kung fu, but the true power of the gods stunts.