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Basic skills of spring and autumn broadsword

The basic steps and methods of Spring and Autumn broadsword are as follows:

1, basic skills training

The practice of spring and autumn broadsword should have good arm strength, waist and leg kung fu, and steady footwork. You can choose single parallel bars, dumbbells and stone locks. To exercise your arm strength, and you can twist a big jar full of sand to exercise your arm strength and waist strength. Choose some Gong Zhuang pile methods in boxing to practice, so as to enhance the stability of the footwall. Select some Changquan routines for drills to improve their coordination, flexibility and jumping ability.

2, basic knife training

Many beginners practice routines from the beginning, but ignore the basic knife skills and posture training, which often backfires. It is very important to train the basic skills of knife, which is the basis of learning broadsword. Therefore, first of all, we should carry out basic single-knife method and basic posture training, such as chopping, chopping, lifting, hanging, floating, rubbing, taking, and jumping and dancing. If you want to practice hard, you can not only make every knife standard, but also be fierce and accurate. You can combine your body with a big knife and do whatever you want.

Step 3: Daily training

Routine is the fusion and combination of various knife methods (body methods), and knife methods (body methods) are the basis of routine. After mastering the basic single knife method, you can connect several single movements to form a small combination for practice. This can improve the ability to control the alternation between actions and be familiar with the continuity and consistency of using broadsword. Several combinations add up to a paragraph, and several paragraphs are connected together, plus ups and downs is a complete routine.

Style and characteristics of Spring and Autumn broadsword

The spring and autumn broadsword is also called "Guan Dao" and "Qinglong Crescent Moon Knife", which is said to be the shape of the knife used by Guan Yu, the general of Shu and Han Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms period. Because Guan Yu likes to read Spring and Autumn Annals, later generations called his knife Spring and Autumn broadsword.

Spring and Autumn broadsword is a kind of knife shape in China ancient cold weapon broadsword series. In addition, there are elephant trunk broadsword, square-headed broadsword, large broadsword, hammer knife, three-pointed double-edged knife, hook sickle, pen knife, Erlang knife, eyebrow sharp knife, nine-ring broadsword and so on.

Since cold weapons quit the war and changed from military means to physical fitness and self-cultivation, there are few other broadswords practiced in Wulin now. The spring and autumn broadsword is beautiful in shape and has historical allusions, which is deeply loved by martial arts practitioners, so the number of people practicing the spring and autumn broadsword is increasing day by day.

Among the eighteen ancient martial arts, broadsword is the most powerful and lethal, so broadsword has the reputation of "handsome in hundreds of battles". The broadsword is a heavy weapon, and it must have strong physique and brawn to operate and use. Therefore, some generals or martial arts masters used broadswords in ancient military. In particular, Guan Yu, who was honored as a "warrior saint" by Chinese people, used the "Dragon Crescent Moon Knife" which is a household name, adding to the cultural taste and mystery of the broadsword in the Spring and Autumn Period.