DISCUSSION

 

 

II.
THE MEDIEVAL WEAPONS

 

3 - The Pole-Arms

 

       

THE PIKE-AXE
GIÁO-RÌU

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

         The « Hatchet-Pike Giáo-Rìu » () - still called « Hatchet Chasse-Spear Sóc-Rìu » - is a kind of Pole-Arm, extrapolated this late times from the Pike-Corsake Giáo-Mác and the Pike-Spear Giáo-Sóc Giáo-Sóc, with an addition of a Hatchet Rìu. This category of Pike Giáo had never been employed on Battlefields in the past.

       The category of « Pike-Hatchet Giáo-Rìu » - still called « Hatchet Chasse-Spear Sóc-Rìu » - exists in several models.

A Model of the « Hatchet-Pike - Giáo-Rìu or Hatchet Chasse-Spear Sóc-Rìu (槊) »
arbitrarily called with erroneous manner by « Hammer-Spear - Thiên-Phủ-Giáo (偏 斧 槊) »

 

« Pike-Hatchet - Giáo-Rìu », still called « Epieu-Hatchet - Sóc-Rìu ».
(19th century)

(Photo Credit : Gavin Nugent, swordsantiqueweapons.com)


       Although apparently the « Pique-Hachette Giáo-Rìu » seems to be more dredful than the weapon Pike-Spear Giáo Sóc, it has finally neither the request efficiency for neutralizing adversaries in plated wicker armour so much as the authentic « Hammer-Spear - Thiên-Phủ-Giáo (偏 斧 槊)» , nor the capacity of deadful destruction on the battlefields in bygone days so muche as the Great War Axe holding an Apical Blade - Đại-Phủ-Việt (大 斧 鉞 ).

       ( That's also the case of the Long Handled Billhooks Giáo Rựa & Giáo Rựa Quéo, extrapolated from the village Billhooks, never owning any Coded Poem for codifying their Codified Sequences, and if they have some that would be also an falsified Poem in nowadays and it can't absolutely be comparable to the Category of Cavalry Vouges Siêu-Đao.)


« Long Handled Billhook - Giáo Rựa » from Đại-Việt (often eronemously believed as from Laos).

(Photo Credit : ashokaarts.com)



« Long Handled Billhook - Giáo Rựa » at the times of NGUYỄN Dynasty.

- French Engraving - Việt-Nam, 19th century -



« Long Handled Billhook - Rựa-Quéo » from Việt-Nam Bình-Định Martial Arts High Lands region.

(Photo Credit : Bình-Định Sa-Long-Cương France)

 



 

 

The Codified Sequence of Medieval Martial Arts

« The Pike-Hatchet »

( Giáo-Rìu )

 

       The Codified Sequence teaching the use method of the Hatchet-Pike Giáo-Rìu doen't own Coded Poem bài Thiệu, because it is a Weapon extrapolated from the Corsake-Pique Giáo-Mác and the Chasse-Spear Pike Giáo-Sóc, with an addition of a Hatchet Rìu and made in these last times by some Martial Arts Scools. So, often the Coded Poem from the Spear-Pike Giáo-Sóc has been taken arbitrarily in order to falsify a Coded Poem for this Category of Hatchet-Pike Giáo-Rìu.

       We need to quote here that the Weapon Hammer-Spear Thiên-Phủ-Giáo belongs to the Category said of « Chock Arms » having hisCoded Poem comme il se doit a eu son nom usurpated by somebodies for giving a name to this Codified Sequence of the Hatchet-Pike Giáo-Rìu truthly different because this one belongs to the Category said of « Edged-Arms ». Autrement dit, it is for confirming thatthe Weapon Hammer-Spear Thiên-Phủ-Giáo is not the Weapon Hatchet-Pike Giáo-Rìu.

 

(To be continued...)

 

 

Committee of
Martial Arts Masters
VÕ-TRẬN-ĐẠI-VIỆT
Bình-Định Sa-Long-Cương
FRANCE

TRỊNH Quang Thắng.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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