Is the nine-jointed whip good for practicing?

The nine-section whip is one of the soft instruments of wushu, which belongs to the third category of other instruments in modern wushu competitions: soft instruments. In ancient times, it was used as a concealed weapon, which could be wrapped around the waist or folded and hidden, and was easy to carry and use. Nine-section whip by the whip handle, whip head and the center of the eight steel sections, each section with three rings connected, so it is called: "nine-section whip". The length of the whip is generally to the human body upright, "handle" top touching the chin, "dart head" touching the ground as appropriate.

Characteristics of the nine-section whip: nine-section whip with up and down flying, flexible and changeable, can be put away, the whip to the circular movement of the main characteristics of its unique style of technology is based on winding. These winding movements are collectively referred to as the whip flower, the use of whip flower and then with swing, hit, sweep, hanging, teasing and other basic techniques, thus forming a "flower even flower, flower set of flowers, flowers connected; flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, changes in a variety of 'technical characteristics. People often use "swing like a wheel, dance like a steel stick", "retrieve a group, release a piece, retrieve like a worm, release like a dragon" to describe the movement style of the nine-section whip.

Nine-section whip

According to the nine-section whip and its law of motion, the form of motion can be divided into; 1 standing circle class. Whip running as a rolling wheel to go as a standing circle, the whip head running track and the ground perpendicular to the rotation speed, giving a strong sense of three-dimensional, with a preemptive momentum. 2 flat circle class. Whip running track parallel to the ground. In the whole nine section whip routine technology plays a role in the upper string of the lower even, its offensive force, the momentum is overwhelming. 3 oblique circle class. Between the standing circle type whip and flat circle type whip between a whip. The head of the whip running with the upright human body in an oblique shape.

Nine-section whip moves are: "inside and outside the elbow", "left and right to cheat the horse", "gold wire winding gourd", "white snake spitting letters

Practices include: "Inside and outside the elbow", "left and right cheat horse", "gold wire winding gourd", "white snake spitting letter", "sweeping the ground dragon", "left and right Phi Hong".

Practice Methods:

1. Make sure that the nine-section whip will not hit yourself during the flying process.

2. Make sure that the nine-section whip can completely protect yourself during the flying process so that the opponent cannot attack.

3, practicing the speed of flying rotation, the speed of rotation is the only standard to measure the skill of the whip holder. No matter how many kinds of routines you will, if the speed of rotation is not high, it is difficult to play the attack strength of the nine-section whip.

Many people are afraid of hurting themselves in the process of practicing the whip, so they advocate practicing with a wooden nine-section whip first. The author believes that this is redundant and not necessary.

Below, the practice steps are described as follows, for the reference of practitioners.

Step 1 practice:

Take a piece of red silk cloth, about 40cm long, about 25cm wide, tied in the ring between the whip head and the whip section, become a whip color.

The right hand grips the handle part of the steel whip (see later for details), standing naturally sideways, with the right foot in front and the left foot behind, looking right in front.

Right arm slightly forward, bend the elbow, the right arm parallel to the ground, the whip body naturally down, the whip head toward the ground, about 15cm from the ground, focus on the natural breathing for a moment.

Draw a circle

Take the wrist as the axis, dance the steel whip, the steel whip in front of the body in a circle rotation, clockwise rotation 10 circles, then counterclockwise rotation 10 circles.

Dancing Flower

Take the small arm and wrist as the axis, cross the left and right in front of the body, and dance the steel whip in the shape of "8", ****20 times.

The above two methods of repeated practice, and stop.

Because the whip color is very large, so the speed will not be very fast, dance, you will hear "whoosh", "whoosh" sound, with the improvement of proficiency, you can gradually increase the number of times, to each dance 100 times as appropriate.

The main point: Where the past practice is not law, or fear of steel whip to hurt themselves, can increase the whip color to reduce the speed of the method, so that you can quickly master the skills of dancing whip.

The second step of practice:

The whip color change small, take 40cm long, 2cm wide colorful silk cloth tied between the whip head and the whip section, the practice method is the same as above.

Drawing circles: 50 times for each group of positive rotation, 50 times for each group of negative rotation.

Dancing flowers: 100 times per group. After changing the whip color to a smaller size, the resistance is reduced and the rotation speed is accelerated. Repeat the exercise every day and stop when you are finished.

Step 3:

Remove the whip color completely, hold the steel whip, practice the same way.

Drawing circles: 100 times each for forward and reverse rotation. Dancing flowers: 200 times each.

Step 4 practice:

Take a steel pipe of about 120cm in length and 3-4cm in diameter, and hold one end of the pipe with one hand.

The 5th step:

Take an iron rod weighing about 5kg or more, hold one end in your hand and dance with the iron rod as a whip, practicing the same method as before. Initially practiced about 10 times, and then increased to hundreds of times without feeling the effort.

Step 6 practice:

Then practice steel whip, practice with the 3rd step, but does not specify the number of times and posture, as you wish, how you want to dance on how to dance, and strive to speed Xi fast. If you take "every minute" as a unit, for a limited time counting, the practice is more effective.

Correctly understanding and applying the above practice methods, you can practice the nine-section whip in a short period of time. Usually, the first and second steps only take a week or two, or even less, to master. If you can't get the method for a long time, even if you work hard, you will only get half the result with twice the effort. Perhaps, you are not adapted to the use of nine-section whip, it is advisable to give up.