[QUOTE=GeneChing;841756]Read my 2005 July/August cover story, Numchuk Skills: Calligrapher, Photographer, Riot Police Trainer Master Li Yancai [/QUOTE]
Great article, Gene.
I once listened to a Japanese karate practitioner berate a Korean stylist for practicing with nunchaku and calling it by a Korean name (Ssang Cheol Gon…wanna guess what Chinese characters go with that pronounciation?)
This person was insistent that kobudo weapons were all Okinawan farm implements…yet we have the “sai”, the “tonfa”, and the “nunchaku” all present in Chinese systems. Wow…those Okinawans sure were influential, that the Chinese started using their farm tools for weapons…:rolleyes:
Quote from Genes article, : erjie gun goes back to the fall of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) in China. An erjie gun creation legend attributes it to the first Song Emperor, a venerated warrior who reigned from 906 to 976 CE. Wow that is the name we refer to them as in SD. HUMMM KC:eek:
[QUOTE=kwaichang;841873]Quote from Genes article, : erjie gun goes back to the fall of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) in China. An erjie gun creation legend attributes it to the first Song Emperor, a venerated warrior who reigned from 906 to 976 CE. Wow that is the name we refer to them as in SD. HUMMM KC:eek:[/QUOTE]
Everyone knows wookies don’t use chucks.
erjie gun literally means two-section stick
It’s stage one of the three-section stick - the favorite staff was split into one, then into two. Of course, given that take on it, the erjie gun would have had to have been a lashing staff (also alternatively called an erjie gun.
But before you get all excited that this might confirm your lineage, I think that Tang legend is totally apocryphal.
[QUOTE=kwaichang;841873]Quote from Genes article, : erjie gun goes back to the fall of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) in China. An erjie gun creation legend attributes it to the first Song Emperor, a venerated warrior who reigned from 906 to 976 CE. Wow that is the name we refer to them as in SD. HUMMM KC:eek:[/QUOTE]
Which is correct??
The one from the main school… SD1.jpg
Or the one from the Tx school (yours)… SD2.jpg
On the SD2 … need to clean up the terminology… liang or er…