II.
THE MEDIEVAL WEAPONS
3 - The Pole-Arms
The WAR IRON STAFF
« THIẾT-BẢNG »
鐵 榜
The « War Iron Staff - Thiết-Bảng » ( 鐵 榜 ) is inherent in Particuliar Arms from Đại-Việt, belonging to te category of « Rigid Arms » in principle. It prend forme from Pole-Arms that are the War Pole and the Battle Staff, but whom section is rectangulairy. Cependant, pour raison de commodité, l'on a l'habitude de s'entraîner avec le Baton de Fer de section circulaire.
Legendary War Iron Staff « Như-Ý-Bỗng » (禪 仗)
of Tôn Ngộ Không (Sun Wou Kong),
the Pilgrim Monkey,
celebrious Hero in the esoteric Roman
« The Journey to the West - Tây-Du Ký - Si Yeou Ki ».
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The Codified Sequence of War Iron Staff
Thiết-Bảng
« The Equal of Sky Destroying the Caves »
( Tề-Thiên Phá Động )
La Codified Sequence teaching the using method of « War Iron taff - Thiết-Bảng » ( 鐵 榜 ) is the COdified Sequence « Tề Thiên Phá Động - The Equal of Sky Destroying Grooves », codified by a Poem (Thiệu Võ) writen in Hán-Nôm comprising 9 Lines of Veres (36 characters).
It's the Codified Sequence called, in reality, « The Equal of Sky Destroying Twelve Doors of Caves » teaching marvellous techniques attacking the 12 Caverns representing the Four Doors of Tứ Tượng - Four Pictures : 1.Thái-Dương (Old Yang), 2.Thiếu-Âm (Young Yin), 3.Thái-Ấm (Old Yin), 4.Thiếu Dương (Young Yang) and the Eight Doors of Bát-Quái - Eight Trigrammes (1.Càn, 2.Khảm, 3.Cấn, 4.Chấn, 5.Tốn, 6.Ly, 7.Khôn, 8.Đoài).
This Codified Sequence of Battlefield Martial Arts is handed down to the posterity by the Martial Arts Trend from Grands-Masters Commder PHẠN and Commander THI, whom the descendant is our Grand-Master Ba-Phong.
(To be continued...)
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