II.
THE MEDIEVAL WEAPONS
The Pole-Arms
Pole and Staff
« Côn & Roi »
The War Pole « Côn » and the Battle Staff Drill « Roi » constitute the section of essential Arms in the Traditional Martial Arts of Bình-Định teaching Programme.
The vietnamese term « Roi » comes from chinese character « Pien 鞭 », translated phonetically into «Tiên » and transcribed afterwards in Nôm character « Roi »
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The form of War Pole « Côn » owns two ends in the same diameter ; while the one's of Battle Staff Drill « Roi » owns an end more large, called "Đốc" or "Gốc" (Root) and goes by progressively to reduce untill the other end more small, called "Ngọn" (Top).
A - The « Wielding of War Pole » teaches the use of three kinds of Pole-Arm :
1.- The « Short War Pole - Đoản-Côn », coming up from Middle Finger into Elbow or into Armpit - according to Martial Arts Schools - and often used by peer, called «Song Côn» (Two Matched Short Pole-Arm ) ;
2.- The « Middle War Pole - Trung Côn », dstinguishing oneself into Two kinds :
2a) The « Middle War Pole - Trung Côn », coming up from ground into armpit ;
2b) The « Middle War Pole - Tề-Mi Côn », coming up from ground to Eyebrows ;
3.- The « Long War Pole - Trường-Côn », coming up from ground into level of Hand pointed toward the sky.
In addition, the Wielding of Pole-Arm teaches more-over the « Thiết-Lĩnh - 鐵 領 » very dreadful, originating from agrarian used for beating the paddy. This « Thiết-Lĩnh » is a kind of Pole-Arm with Two Segments, specific of Vietnameses, comprising a long segment and a short segment, linked up between them by a short cord or by a short metal small chain.
Chineses use also this kind of Pole-Arm with Two Segments - one long and one short - and call this by « Trường Sao-Tử - 長 梢 子», sometimes « Mẫu-Tử-Côn 母 子 棍 », but that is the Pole-Arm with Three Segments of same length, called «Tam-Tiết-Côn - 三 節 棍», which is specific to them.
As for Japaneses, they use a kind of Pole-Arm with Two Segments, called « Nunchaku », holding Two Short Pole-Arm of same length and linked up between them by a short cord or by a short metal small chain. That is a kind of Weapon whom the wielding doesn't own to the one of the Pole-Arm.
B - The « Wielding of Battle Staff Drill » teaches the use of two kinds of Pole-Arm :
1.- The « Short Battle Staff - Roi-Đoản (Đoản-Tiên) » ;
2.- The « Long Battle Staff - Roi-Trường (Trường-Tiên) ».
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