Taking the On Guard Ready Stance- Chinese Swords & Swordsmanship Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2020
- Chinese Swords forms start with the Jian, or a Dao, out of the scabbard held in the left hand. This at attention stance is a sort of half ready posture. From this position the weapon can be brought quickly into action. In the video we look at the technique men at arms employed to quickly move from this at attention stance into a ready stance as well as the structure of the correct on guard posture.
Traditionally, basic cuts practice begins and ends with this on guard, ready stance.
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The bamboo wave in the background is just so harmonious with your narration. It’s as peaceful as the sunshine in a no-school afternoon.
Hello, Laoshi Scott! I have a HEMA background in Italian longsword, and I find your videos very interesting.
I like the historical reality videos, dispelling all the 'dojo lore' out there, and would like to know more about Chinese swords and swordsmanship misconceptions. I got reminded of the similar case about HEMA and European martial arts being misrepresented in popular media, and what the Chinese counterparts of the misconceptions would be like.
Really appreciate the videos! Thank you for bringing this insight to a public platform.
Thank you for the historical context, and instruction on the proper way of getting to ready position. I wish I lived nearby to better learn from you, Sifu.
You might to have a look at the online classes at: www.chineseswordacademy.com/home There are over 100 practitioners training there.
dank je wel laoshi
Laoshi, did you make this video just for me?? Lol! So much great detail; it is truly those minute, almost imperceptible movements that separate a good swordsman from a master swordsman.
Wonderful video, thank you, sir. 🙏
Thanks everyone for your continued support. Thought you would like to know, the online Academy of Chinese Swordsmanship is live. Signup today and it just $9 for 14 days-
www.grtc.org/swordacademy
This is so cool, trying to teach myself Ming Jian.
Just the right balance of detail and simplicity. I found this very easy to absorb and I am sure there are many more nuances for down the road. Thanks for sharing
Glad to hear that, thanks for Supporting this Art...
Very helpful!
Thanks, great to hear that.
Brilliant, very clear and helpful. Thank you Laoshi
Awesome, thanks!
My pleasure, glad you liked it.
Another great video, thank you!
Thanks.
Thanks a lot for that video. I found it incredibly accurate and clear 🙏
Thanks, we appreciate the feedback.
Great stuff, really felt like this video has a great teacher.. very nice.
Thanks, I appreciate the support.
Excellent presentation Laoshi, thank you.
My pleasure Richard, see you in St. Paul...
AWESOME :) THANK YOU
Thank you Scott for another very fascinating and informative video
Great video! This is a huge help! Thank you!
Agreed.
Thank you.
Well done Scott most excellent video cheers Michael
Thanks brother.
Very well explained!
Thanks.
This is excellent and I see many similarities to western fencing with sabre/Backsword
Thanks.
great video!
what is the sword finger thing for btw?
I think that could be a video in itself.
Great video!
I was curious, you had called your left-hand position a "sword talisman". When I was doing Taiji (for a short time only), I was only told it was meant to be a kind of counterbalance, like giving your off hand something to do as well. Is there more significance to that hand shape than I was told?
Thank you in advance for your time!
It comes from Shamanism, it orginated as a form of magic and ritual (which was also often done by the ancient military in Daoist rituals for good luck, to appease their war gods, and so on). The Kung Fu we know today came from the 1900s, after the Boxer Rebellion, and they made up stories that it came from Shaolin, Wudang, famous generals and so on, to cover up the real roots.
In short, there are two historical tradtions in China, the Spirit Boxing arts, which focused on magic, self attainment (Gong-Fu), forms, rituals and so on, and then combative and military arts, known as Wushu (at the time, though that word now refers to the modern sport). Spirit Boxing borrowed elements from old military arts and made them into a form of religion and cultivation, less focused on martial practicalilty or skill in fighting. However, they got banned in the 1900s, of which by the time were the only real surviving "elements" of the old military martial arts, as these religions preservered them (though didn't use or teach them in a practical way, but were used as form of theater and opera house tradtion), whilst the military moved on to firearms, leaving their old military arts behind to be lost to history.
After the Spirit Boxing ban, the practioners were forced to change/relabel the arts and change their origin stories to continue practicing them, and so the Jing Wu movement started in the 1920s-1930s, which reformed Spirit Boxing into all the various Kung Fu styles we have today, and they attempted to focus on martial aspects instead, though much of it even today, remains to be mainly form and ritual (which is why many people can't fight with it, as it wasn't really designed to be fought with, whereas the practical martial arts they practiced that no longer exist today, of which were more similar to modern arts, like boxing and wrestling, elements that remain of it are in modern Sanshou, and tradtional Shuai Jiao).
You might find this video on the history of Taiji interesting on the subject, as well as the "real" history of Chinese martial arts and the Shaolin Legend in this second video.
th-cam.com/video/CAKBqB5vUeE/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/F30JQ2E_M50/w-d-xo.html
Today, it's very rare to see the real combative stuff (which is seperate from the Kung Fu/Spirit Boxing stuff), but people like Scott here are doing it, and Jack Chen as well (who can be found on YT). The reason we you see these ritual gestures like "sword talisman fingers" is because over time, through the convolution, and the "marketing" of Kung Fu as a tradtional martial art for fighting, over that of what is actually was, a ritual cultivation art that was martially flavoured. As such, in certain circles where they try to revive the old practial Chinese martial arts, its all ended up a bit mixed together, whereas you won't find these hand gestures, or certain postures in the old military manuals, but you do find them in old Chinese magical texts.
The old real military practical arts are very to the point, no fancy forms, gestures, secrets, "Chi power", philosophy or flowery motions, just basic line drills and skill training. th-cam.com/video/VO1MNyYAMBc/w-d-xo.html , very similar to HEMA.
(And lol, just realised who I was replying to, hi.)
When practicing a form, does the grip remain the same? If so, then I am going to have seriously examine the transitions between stances.
Yes, always. The correct grip works well for all cuts and deflections, why change from that solid grip while in the midst of action?
I wish I could go to this school and learn with him ...but he’s farrrr away 😢
Now you don't have to travel, we created an online Academy- www.grtc.org/swordacademy
Great River Taoist Center hoorayyyy
Bit of a general question for you, Scott: To the extent of your knowledge, how much overlap or intercompatibility is there between the Jianfa you're familiar with and European single-hand swordsmanship from the same period? Are the techniques very distinct from each other or do you get lots of principles and techniques developing independently in both?
Martial art actuelly means millitary art, the word "martial" is derived from the roman god of war Mars and the term martial arts was used the first time during the renaissance period where they where inspired by antiquity and used this term to describe the combat training for warriors like knights and etc.
The term Martial art used to only describe traditional eastern martial art who focus on form and mental health etc.. is a big misconception
Hi can you show the same for the Dao, please?
The main difference is that the Chinese dao (saber) was carried on the front of the arm.
@@mugenGRTC how would you swing that into the sabre guard of left or right?
Nice work. Hope You don't mind me watching. oh, and happy dare day! :3