The soft whip is probably the only weapon that must be learnt from a living teacher, and cannot be learned from books or videos. Not many people have the opportunity to learn the three sectional soft whip.

2016 -- Video
2014 -- Video
Pattern Names

The Six-and-Half-Point Staff, or Luk Tim Poon Khun, of Wing Choon Kungfu is one of the four best known staff sets in kungfu. It is simple in form but very profound in application.

2014 -- Video
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Kwan Tao (Guan Dao) is a Chinese term meaning “Big Knife of Kwan Yu”. A Big Knife is a classical weapon with a huge blade attached to a long shaft. Kwan Yu was a famous warrior in classical China well known for using a Big Knife, who is now deified as the God of Righteousness.

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2016 -- Pictures
2016 Sifu Leonard Lackinger -- Video
2014 Max -- Video
2006 -- Video -- more
2006 -- Pictures
2006 -- Another Picture Series
1980s -- Video
1980s -- Pictures
Old Video

This famous staff set is known as “Ng Long Pat Kua Khuen”, roughly translated as “Pa Kua Staff of Fifth Brother”, and is regarded as an “indoor” art in Hoong Ka Kungfu. “Pa Kua” or “octagonal” refers to eight directions, and “Fifth Brother” refers to the fifth of the famous seven Yang generals of the Sung Dynasty.

2014 -- Video
2014 -- Pictures
Video from Film
1980s -- Video
Application Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 -- Videos

The Crescent Moon Spear is a very special weapon because it incorporates the properties of five different weapons, namely the spear, the staff, the hook, the big trident and the dagger. It is a northern kungfu weapon usually used on horseback.

2016 -- Video
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2006 -- Video, more
2006 -- Pictures (Revised)
2006 -- Pictures (Original)
Learning the Traveling Dragon Crescent Moon Spear -- Video, More
1980s -- Video
Lu Pu Crescent Moon Spear 1980s -- Video

A sword is a dainty weapon, and it needs great skills to use it well. The Traveling Dragon Sword is Grandmaster Wong's favorite weapon.

2020 Sifu Leonard Lackinger -- Video
2016 -- Video
2016 -- Pictures
2016 Sifu Leonard Lackinger -- Video
2009 -- Video
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2006 -- Pictures
Learning the Traveling Dragon Sword -- Video
1980s -- Video
Combat Applications of Traveling Dragon Sword -- Videos

This is a Shaolin sword set demonstrated by Sifu Wong's studnet, Tang Kok San, more than 20 years ago in the 1980s.

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The spear is regarded as the king of weapons, because the spear thrust is technically the most formidable attack to counter. This spear set is called Traveling Dragon 13-Technique Spear because its movements are like those of a traveling dragon, and there are 13 main techniques.

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2016 -- Video
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2006 -- Video
2006 -- Pictures
13-Technique Spear -- Video, more, more
Spear against Butterfly Knives -- Video
Spear against 3-Sectional Staff -- Video
Spear against Guan Dao -- Video

How would these short, light weapons be effectively used against long weapons like spears, and heavy weapons like big tridents? Would you be able to find out by looking at the Butterfly Knives set shown in the video clips below?

Butterfly Knives -- Video
Pattern Names
Against Spear -- Video
Against Staff -- Video
Against Sabre -- Video
How to Capture and Avoid Being Captured -- Video

A famous expert of the Crescent-Moon Spade was Sha Seng (Sa Chng in Cantonese pronunciation), or Shark-Monk. Shark-Monk was the sidai (junior brother) of the Monkey God, and one of the three disciples of the Venerable Xuan Zhang who journeyed to the West in quest of Buddhist sutras.

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The umbrella set here is performed by Cheong Huat Seng, an old disciple of Grandmaster Wong. He learned it from Grandmaster Wong about 30 years ago at the Shaolin Wahnam Association in Sungai Petani, Malaysia. It is also inspiring to know that Cheong Huat Seng is 64 years in age, though he is actually healthier and fitter than many people below 50!

Umbrella Set -- Videos
Umbrella Set -- Pictures
Combat Applications, Hawaii 2014 -- Video
Combat Application, Barcelona 2015 -- Videos

The video clips below are put together to help course participants to the Intensive Weapon Course of June 2006 to review the Taming Tiger Big Trident. Please note that here the set is purposefully performed slowly with pauses in between patterns so that course participants can see the movements more easily. When you are familiar with the movements, they should be performed fast and smoothly as sequences rather than as individual patterns.

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Taijiquan is more well known of its sword, but practicing the Taiji Sabre can enhance the yang or forceful aspect of the art. It is called Taiji Sabre and not Taijiquan Sabre, meaning Cosmos Sabre and not Caosmos Martial Art Sabre.

Taiji Sabre -- Video
Taiji Sabre -- Pictures
Combat Application of Taiji Sabre -- Video

Some Taiji practitioners may be surprised that Taijiquan has the staff as a weapon. Of course it has, otherwise Taijiquan would be incomplete as the staff is a common and very useful weapon.

Taiji Staff -- Video
Taiji Staff -- Pictures
Combat Application of Taiji Staff -- Video

The spear is considered as the king of weapons because it is technically most difficult to defend against a spear thrust. During a Special Shaolin Kungfu Course in Toronto in 2003 Grandmaster Wong demonstrated using a single knife or sabre against a spear.

2003 -- Video

These video clips, taken at random during the Special Shaolin Kungfu Course in Toronto in 2003, show the application of a spear against a single knife or sabre. The spear is often described as a traveling dragon, whereas a single knife is described as a ferocious tiger.

2003 -- Video

This abstract is taken from an old kungfu movie, “Lok Ah Choy and Wong Fei Hoong”, produced by Shaw Brothers of Hong Kong. Loh Ah Choy was an inner-chamber disciple of Chee Seen, the First Patriarch of Southern Shaolin. Wong Fei Hoong was a famous Shaolin master.

Here Sigong Lok Ah Choy taught his “tuo-suin” (student's student) Wong Fei Hoong an important training method of the “circle technique” in Ng Long Pat Kua Khuen. Later the two masters sparred. There was also an invaluable piece of advice from Loh Ah Choy to Wong Fei Hoong at the end of the video clip.

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Sifu Lai Chin Wah, better known as Uncle Righteousness, was famous for the 108-Point Staff.

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I learned this set from a classic.

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I learmed this set from Uncle Righteousness within 3 weeks, which marked the shortest time he taught any student.

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I learned this set from a kungfu master while going to Guandong Association in Alor Star, Malaysia to practice some weapons there.

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I learned this Double Sabres set from Four-Eyed Cheong, which was his nickname because he wore spectacles. I did badly in the Double Sabres because of a negavtive interference from Butterfly Knives.

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I had to use a specail staff when training the Flag-Waving Big Staff as I was quite small then.

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I learned this set in Ayer Itam, Malaysia from Sifu Zhen Poi, which is his nickname meaning "Cracy Poi".

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This set was learned from a classic.

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The warrior, Zhang Fei, duirng the Three Kingdon Period was well known for the Snake-Headed Spear.

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It is a "hard" spear when the right hand is in front, different from a "soft" spear where the left hand is in front.

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