Perhaps should mention this is a semi flexible sword suitable for scholars ceremony or demonstration/ practice only ! A battle Jian is completely rigid and much heavier
This is so thorough and easy to follow. Thanks for taking the time to explain all of the aspects of that overhead circle, especially. I appreciated that you took care to note which natural tendencies should be encouraged and which ones we should be careful not to overindulge, like allowing the fingers to assist with the uppercut vs not allowing the sword to leave the mostly vertical plane in its path of movement.
Great! I love your tutorials! Very comprehensive and easy to follow. I've been practicing KF for 40 years and my main weapon of choice is the nunchakus but I just fell in love with the sword! Thank you for the video!
Hi Carl, I love your videos. They help me so much and I really want you to make more. Can you speak louder on your next one though. Love the channel but I'm a bit hard of hearing so...
I have attempted every way I can see how your doing over head flat circles and I have hit a brick wall. It is very difficult unless an instructor is right with me telling me to stop and then placing my hands and arms in the correct positions slowly in steps to properly follow threw on technique. For me online tutorials only do so much to a point and then I find I need a human being next to me for proper instruction to follow threw on proper technique. Its frustrating and is the main thing that has me given up on learning proper straight sword skills.
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this is the most simple and easy to understand vdo in youtube. I like your calming your speech, more powerful than those western people teaching our asian martial without understanding Buddhism concept of meditation and spacing their mind.
Arrogance and Buddhism don't go together. And the sword has nothing to do with Buddhism. I don't know of anyone who uses the sword to do Buddhist meditation. A sword is a weapon that is used to kill the opponent in the battelfield.
Patrick Wong racist. There’s nothing wrong with a “western person” devoting themselves to this martial art. You don’t have to be a certain race to understand a certain thing, that’s just absurd philosophy you have there pal
Thank you so much for this! I'm beginning my straight sword training and you are helping a lot. Question though. What can you use for the grip on your handle? I was told I can use badminton grips. My hands easily sweat. Is there anything you can recommend?
Try binding leather or shammi strips, use like a wide bandage with a simple bow to tie at the pommel. This way you can remove it to clean. Remember to clean, oil and dry your blade ! Any sweat left on the blade can seriously start rust. This happens when the blade is held behind the arm in the beginning posture. Also possibly leave a couple of spare silk squares on your waist ! They will look colourful, can be used to quickly dry your hands or passed to someone sneezing (gentleman like ). Lastly hand sanitizer with alcohol will dry your hands
Can you give any advice on good swords to buy? Apparently some jian swords used for tai chi would not be appropriate for modern wushu, so I wondered if you might have any guidance on what to buy?
Lol... I am a big fan of Jian Shu... and its a good tutorial! But please explain to me what's up with holding the index finger ON the finger guard ... Seen that a lot in. It's a good way to make the moves faster but: a) If you practice with a real sword for a change... (hint... you'll immediately cut your own finger). b) It is called a finger guard for a reason... it stops your opponents sword from sliding further down and cutting your finger off.... so putting your finger on top is a bad idea if you ask me...
Hi thank you for your video it was really descriptive and help me visualize what you were saying I want you to ask what is a better sword the flexible one or a firm one what are the differences besides being flexible and firm and where would you recommend getting it from thank you
Daniel Lopez The blind Samurai I know next to nothing about Chinese martial arts, however my take is that the more flexible ones would be more for training and rigid ones would be more historically accurate (This is based on what I know of similar types of European swords so don't quote me on that)
Having a hard time not moving my elbow. Dude this burns. I am in my 50's and I did Kuntao and Silat along with Danzan Jujitsu. All the weapons were beginer stuff. Staff to Spear and Jo. Katana and 3 swords of Daisho. I am also doing BattoBugeido Nippon Sword Combatives. Jian seems to be a sword that is using speed & centifugal force to keep its lack of length and strength from being diminished. From what I have been seeing there are a lot of fancy Wushu movements that do NOT APPLY to actual Combat and could very well get one killed. The Jian/Gim is a Royal or Gentlemans weapon & not really a weapon for Field Duty. I have 3 Jians. A Hanwei and Two Cold Steel Jians. ALL Razor Sharp and very hard carbon stainless folded steel as swords are on the Battlefield. As I am a Sword Collector with some Rapiers and Ape costing over 3K this is a fact of Western Sword and would still apply to a degree to any bladed combat. I find that my Uncle who was the Late Brendan Lai of the 7 Stars Praying Mantis Strategy once telling me the more simple the movement the more deadly the Strategy to kill. I do not like Iaido Medatative Martial Arts sword methods as they are not meant to do anything except to keep medatative reasoning, culture, and tradition alive. It is like Karate ( Tang Fist) being compared to Karate Do (Empty hand) or Jujitsu to Judo as they sully the true Nature of the Combatives and the Intent of Medatative Dynamic Opposites for both Survival and the thin edge between Life and Death. If one is not prepared to kill then one is not prepared to live. I have refrained from mentioning Chinese Martial Arts because that by its nature is both deceptive and quite deadly IF need be. Most Chinese Schools teach forms and some methods of use but exclude the true deadlier aspects leaving many whire boy Sifus from these schools the FOOL. Judo was a way of proof of concept for Jujitsu and Brazillian Jujitsu is in fact Judo... a semi sport combative? How do I know? Because the entire Gracie family is at my old school in San Bruno, CA. learning Danzan Jujitsu from Willy Cahill Judo/Jujitsu Academy which is a mix of Chinese Kung Fu and Kito Ryu Jujitsu formulated by Asian People on the Islands of Hawaii by Henry Okazaki! Wally Jay and Willy Cahill leaned Danzan from Henry. Wally Jay trained Bruce Lee in Danzan aka Tanshan Jujitsu ( Tanshan is a Chinese Mountian in China where Chin Na is taught but is pronounced Danzan in Japanese) and Judo. It was not Gene Labelle who taugh Bruce Lee anything and is riding on his skirt to make money and he and others LIE! Getting back to Jian. Can or do you have instruction on Jian Combatives and not Wushu but Wukung! Wushu is the sport forms while Wukung is WAR and the concepts used to show proof of concept! Thanks Carl. From one Chinese to another. Kuntao 5 Shaolin Temple Strategy and Silat: Cimande, Serak, Cikalong and Pentjak kept going for over 18 years with a little Mantis and Danzan to close the gaps in Domains of range. Fun until you get old. Then it is just doing it to show off to WHO?... when you are married. No EGO just the doing and going to a place called my backyard. 勝利屬於智者
Check the dear stance in Tai chi ! The dear stance way of holding the fingers is solely to increase your sword grip ! He completely ignored this. The two longest fingers do most of the work. That spinning thing he does is completely powerless. Try it using the index finger as he says ! Then try it using the two lower fingers ! Miles more power !! 45 yrs ☯️ . Sorry but he doesn't even mention his sword is semi regid for scholars or ceremony "not battle !!" They are solid and much heavier.
I am left handed too, but my teacher says "there are no left handed swordsmen" so I have to use my right. If you train with a lot of students, being opposite will get in the way and cause accidents. Think of it as an advantage; now you will have 2 good hands.
@@ambulocetusnatans yes, I understand now. It's different then western swordplay, beacouse forms are standardized for right handed. Private I can use it in my both hands.
Learn on both sides! No left handed swordsmen? Chinese martial arts are historically full of double weapon forms, swords (Jian) and knives (Dao) included. What happens if in a conflict you lose use of your right hand for whatever reason. What then? Give up? Kung fu = skill gained through effort Work harder, learn both sides.
Long time ago, people use 2 swords to fight and use inner force. You should learn 2 types. If I can do the basics, I plan to train my left hand too. Try this: Make a circle with your right hand and a square with your left. It's gonna rlly help. I heard from my grandpa and my dad.
More to learn. This is sword conditioning in order to put the movements into field application. Concept to Proof applications are similar in scale. Basically concept of proof of Jian forms needs to be addressed with China Na Fa and Chin Na In.
It's to strengthen the wrists AND keep them flexible. When using force, the wrists tend to stiffen. Rigidity is unacceptable in the chinese way of the sword. So they make you spin that sword until your wrist is liquid ^^
