II.
THE MEDIEVAL WEAPONS
6 - The Particular Arms
B - The Rigid Weapons
The WAR PADDLE
« MÁI CHÈO »
The « War Paddle - Mái Chèo » belongs to Particular Arms, from the Categorie of Rigid Arms, and it's a specific weapon from coastal regions of Việt-Nam, extrapolated from Civilian Paddle of fishers, and very dreadfull. It had been used in Navy Forces from NGÔ Dynasty(939 JC) untill into Tây-Sơn Dynasty (1778~1802).
At the SONG Dynasty Period (960~1279), Chineses had imitated the Paddle use as a War weapon under LÝ Dynasty (1009~1225) for inventing the weapon called Quải 拐 (Stick-Paddle), for example Quải-Thương 拐 槍 (Spear-Paddle), Quải-Nhận-Thương 拐 刃 槍 (Spear-Paddle with an Edged Blade)...
In reality, this Spear-Paddle « Quải-Thương 拐 槍 » from LÝ Dynasty period (1009~1225) came from the Spear-Halberd (Kích-Thương 戟 槍) of this same LÝ Dynasty.
Spear-Paddle with Edged Blade |
Spear-Paddle from Đại-Việt |
The Civilian Paddle |
Wielding Method of
« The War Paddle »
Mái Chèo
Martial Student from Bình-Định Sa-Long-Cương School System training for
Techniques of « Hoành Giang Phi Độ - 橫 江 飛 渡 »
in War Paddle Codified Sequence.
( Photo Credit : BĐ SLC NVHTT )
The wielding method of the « War Paddle - Mái Chèo », is deeper than the one of Battle Spade - Bút-Chì.
It's there a weapon extremly handy for Vietnamese Navy Forces in medieval times, still always used with efficiency untill under Tây-Sơn's Dynasty (1778~1802). His wielding techniques differ totally from these of War Pole and Battle Staff. The Lung called « Múa Bơi Chèo - the Paddle Twirling » is truthly dreadful and it has enriched the wielding method of the Battle Spade - Bút-Chì.
Committee of Martial Arts Masters TRỊNH Quang Thắng. |
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