II.
THE MEDIEVAL WEAPONS
4 - The Shock-Arms
The BLADE BREAKER
The Blade-Breaker Wielding
« Giản-Pháp »
(鐧法)
The teaching of Blade-Breaker concerns the « Unique Blade-Breaker - Độc-Giản » (獨 鐧) and the « Two Matched Blade-Breaker - Song-Giản » (双 鐧) use.
In addition, it exists also the method teaching the wielding techniques of « Two Matched War Flails - Song-Tiên » (双 鞭).
Although « Two Matched War Flails - Song-Tiên » own wielding techniques more profound than the ones of « Two Matched Blade-Breaker - Song-Giản (双 鐧) », however they have been too few passed on Martial Students, that why in nowadays, rare are those who know it.
The Codified Sequence of
« Single Blade-Breaker »
« Độc-Giản »
獨 鐧
Grand-Master Trương-Thanh-Đăng
presenting the Codified Sequence of Blade-Breaker.
The foundamental Codified Sequence of Blade-Breaker from Bình-Định SA-LONG-CƯƠNG School System is th one of the « Single Blade-Breaker - Độc-Giản » (獨 鐧), owning 43 Codes Lines of Verse with unpredictable techniques of transformation, attak and defense.
However, the most of Sa-Long-Cương Martial Students in the currently world, during their training for this Codified Sequence « Single Blade-Breaker - Độc-Giản » (獨 鐧), have made a mix-up with other techniques belonging to Sabre wielding and Sword wielding ; it's precisely because of this that Techniques in the Blade-Breaker as « Cuồng-Phong Tảo Diệp », « Phượng Vũ Xuyên Lâm », or « Kim-Giản Bạt Sơn », for exemple, have been all lost.
The Blade-Breaker « Giản 鐧 » belongs to the category of « Shock-Arms » as War Mace « Trùy » but heavier than Sabre and Sword. By consequent, the martial student from Việt-Nam's Traditional Martial Arts, wanting to learn and training for the Blade-Breaker, must have a Blade-Breaker from the authentical model with appropriate weight and dimensions.
Otherwise, he could risk to mix up with wielding techniques of Sabre and Sword which belong to these of « Edged Arms » category. This mix-up leads of course to decline and disappearing of the the wielding of Blade-Breaker's passing on, which belongs to category of wielding techniques from « Shocks-Arms » in Traditional Martial Arts.
Among Eighteen Martial Arts Sections, the « Single Blade-Breaker - Độc-Giản » (獨 鐧) is one of handy arms at a time for using on foot fighting and truthly dreadful on horseback fighting.
Master Trịnh-Quang-Thắng presenting the wielding
of Blade-Breaker on horseback..
The techniques in Blade-Breaker wielding as « Phượng-Vũ Xuyên Lâm », « Kim-Giản Bạt Sơn » ou bien «Thúc-Bảo Hồi Giản », « Sát-Thủ Giản », etc. express to their just effectiveness better on horseback than on foot fighting.
The Codified Sequence of
« Two Matched Rigid War Flails »
« Song Ngạnh-Tiên »
双 硬 鞭
« Dung-Tiêu-Kích »
融 鑣 擊
The foundamental Codified Sequence of «Two Matched Rigid Metal War Flails - Song Ngạnh-Tiên » ( 双 硬 鞭 ), from Traditional Martial Arts of Bình-Định is the one of whom the name is « Dung-Tiêu-Kích » (融 鑣 擊), comprising 10 Coded Lines of Verse writen in Heptametric coding techniques of transformation, attack and defense deploying on the battlefield.
The word Dung 融 means the shape of the Flame flaring up, the word Tiêu 鑣 indicates the Phiêu, a kind of ancient Short Breech Knife, and the word Kích 擊 signify To Strike.
In reality, the Codified Sequence « Dung Tiêu Kích » ( 融 鑣 擊), trains essentially Warriors for the wielding of «Two Matched Rigid Metal War Flails - Song Ngạnh-Tiên » ( 双 硬 鞭 ), a kind of particular weapon, extremely dreadful, from category of « Metal War Flails - Thiết-Tiết », used by combatants of law under the Tây-Sơn Dynasty (1788-1802)..
That's a rare and precious Codified Sequence of « Rigid Metal War Flail - Ngạnh-Tiên » (硬 鞭) belonging to the Martial Arts Lineage from Hương-Kiểm-LÀI, in the region of An-Nhơn, passed on the future generation by the descendant Grand-Master LÂM Ngọc Phú.
(To be continued...)
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