The Halberd belongs to the category of weapons used in the begonedays on combat chariots and on horseback ; by consequent, his lenght and his weight according to the cases present very important differences.

       Students of Traditional Martial Arts of Việt-Nam will have to distinguish the morphological structure from these two categories of Halberd that are the Spear-Halberd « Kích-Giáo - 戟 槊» and the Sabre-Halberd « Kích-Đao - 戟 刀 ».

 

 

 

The Codified Sequence of
Spear-Halberd

« Fatal Halberd holding Perpendiculary Lateral Blades »
(Phương-Thiên Họa-Kích)
方 偏 禍 戟

Assistant-Instructor Nicolas ROUX
of Võ-Trận Đại-Việt Bình-Định Sa-Long-Cương School System
was demonstrating the Codified Sequence of Halberd
« Phương-Thiên Họa-Kích - 方 偏 禍 戟 » on foot fighting.
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       The foundamental Codified Sequence of Spear-Halberd wielding in the Bình-Định SA-LONG-CƯƠNG School System is the Codified Sequence « Phương-Thiên Họa-Kích » (方 偏 禍 戟) ; that's a Codified Sequence concerning the wielding of the « Long Halberd » Trường-Kích (長 戟) belonging to the categorie of Spear-Hallberd « Kích-Giáo » (戟 槊), whom techniques of attack and defence chained techniques are codified by a Poem comprising 36 lines of Verse (144 characters).

       Martial Student wanting to learn the Halberd wielding will has to own the one which is made of steel, forged according to historic model and with a logic weight. For the person who trains for with an aluminium Halberd, too light, it will be diificult for him to assimilate the depth of the wielding of this weapon from ancient times.

 

   

The Codified Sequence of
Spear-Halberd

« Kích-Thương »
戟 槍

Martial Student was training on Wooden Horse for various techniques of « Spear Halberd - Kích-Thương »
inherent in Pole-Arm from Đại-Việt before tackling the training on War Horse.

       The essential Codified Sequence Battlefield Martial Arts teaching the Wielding of Spear-Haberd « Kích-Thương - 戟 槍 » is the rare and precious Codified Sequence from School System of Commander-PHẠN & Commander THI, whom their descendant is our Grand-Master BA Phong, who hands down to the posterity throughout our Academy of Võ-Trận Đại-Việt.

       That is there a Codified Sequence coded by 18 Lines of Verse (72 characters) writen in Hán-Nôm determining Techniques of Attack and Defence with infinye transformations inherent in the « Spear-Halberd - Kích-Thương » ( 戟 槍) from Đại-Việt. 

 

The Codified Sequence of
Sabre-Halberd

« Sabre Haberd holding Two Apical Blades »
(Lưỡng-Đầu Kích-Đao)
兩 頭 戟 刀

 

      The celebrious Codified Sequence of Sabre-Halberd « Kích-Đao » (戟 刀) wielding from Bình-Định is the one of the «Sabre-Halberd holding Two Apical Blades» (Lưỡng-Đầu Kích-Đao - 兩 頭 戟 刀) ; that's a Codified Sequence of Sabre-Halberd whom powerful techniques of attack and defence are coded by 8 lines of Verse written in Hán & Nôm characters, under the form of Heptametric Poem.

       This Codified Sequence of « Sabre-Halberd holding Two Apical Blades - Lưỡng-Đầu Kích-Đao » was handed down to the posterity by the late Master Trần Quang Diễn from Xả-Đàng Nguyện - HÀ-HÂN Martial Arts School System.

 

(To be continued...)

 

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