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Wushu - Weapons -
Gun Shu
The stick is one of the
long weapons in wushu. It is the basic weapon, known as 'the grandfather of all
weapons'. The stick was a weapon that was already being used thousends of years
ago by the Chinese people to defend themselves against robbers and wild animals.
In wushu the stick is a spactacular event, with a lot of acrobatic moves.
When
standing straight up with one arm lifted up in the sky, the stick should reach
untill the hand, in wushu competition.
The Chinese word Gun (Chinese: 棍;
pinyin: głn) refers to a long Chinese staff weapon used in Chinese martial arts.
It is known as one of the four major weapons, along with the Qiang (spear), Dao
(sword), and the Jian (sword).
There are various kinds of gun and
these include (from olden days): Monkey Staff (猴棍),
Biangan (鞭杆),
Mad Demon Staff (瘋魔棍),
Tianqi Staff (天齊棍),
Staff of Five Tigers and Goat Herds (五虎群羊棍),
Nunchaku (二節棍),
Taiji Staff of Thirteen (太極十三杆),
Taiji Quarterstaff (太極大杆),
Taiji Staff (太極棍),
Staff of Eight Trigrams and Seven Stars (八卦七星竿),
Staff of Eight Fairies (八仙棍),
Flail (槤枷).
The types of gun normally used
nowadays for exercises and competitions are the bailangan (白栏杆)
and the nangun (南棍)
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