The Beginners Guide to Protective Gear and Swords for Chinese Swordsmanship
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- New Gear and Manufacturers are popping up all the time. Gavin King, two-time finalist in the Traditional Chinese Sword League Annual Tournaments, gives a run down the the latest Full-Contact Protective Gear and Sparring Swords for the Chinese Sword Arts.
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Maybe you could glue long strips of velcro on the bayonet stock, and on the Dadao edge to simulate a bit of bite.
To be honest, there are only a few techniques from the Dadao manual that need to be adapted, and it actually forces you to have to really clean with the cuts to get that percussive impact to knock the attack off line.
I find it very interesting that while HEMA generally rejects the use of wooden weapons for non drill work due to chance of injury, even in gear, while Chinese swordsmanship uses them very regularly from what I’ve seen on the channel. Is there a particular reason that Chinese swordsmanship seems to have a preference toward wooden weapons over synthetics?
Amongst other reasons, it is the tradition. All training under Rodell Laoshi is full contact. Students at the Academy start swordplay training essentially "naked." That is without all the padding, just gloves. This could be a long discussion, but in short this teaches students to very quickly respect the weapon as there are consequences. Wood swords will leave a bruise on a bare arm. Steel blunts and break the skin and cause bone bruise.
Note that we've been training this way for 3 decades.
Note that the Chinese Sword Arts are a living tradition, we aren’t recreating something from old books, but rebuilding. We’re not imitating HEMA, the people in those arts have done great work, we are living the renaissance of Jianfa.
@@mugenGRTC Very interesting, thank you for the response.
I love Crane Sword Studios' jian, but I will flag that the Wenge Wood (and Daniel says it as well) is *not* for sparring/contact, it will break quickly, even a light tap against something will knock off splinters. It's a lighter weight for recovery days, long training sessions, and aesthetics. His Hickory jian however are top notch.
Funny I've not had any issues doing contact work with my Wenge wood jian. I found the grain to be really dense and a weighty sword. Definitely have not had anything splinter off of it and I've gone pretty hard with it. It's not my regular jian for sparring, because knocks are more visible than my lighter hickory jian.
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Great review and prioritization of protective gear.
Purpleheart Armoury in the USA sells a decent synthetic dao. They actually sell 2 different dao, but one of them is way too light. However, the other dao has been nice to spar with.
I believe one of their current Jian is based on the Junior Jian design I worked on with them a few years ago. Funnily enough, Christian did reach out to me a few months ago, I did reply but haven't heard back from him.