Anyone knows this Broadsword form?

[Fei Li]

Hi everyone,

Does anyone recognise this form?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mufHD5Ocalw&feature=related

It is quite often on youtube but I do not find any information from what style it is,
or more important if it is a traditional form.
Some name it Northern Shaolin, which is quite generic…
Another Youtube commentary said it is a standard Wushu routine,
which I doubt a little, it does not look acrobatic enough.

Any thoughts?
Thank you in advance!

[SanHeChuan]

Yes, it’s a Chang Chuan (Long Fist) form. It is basic beginner wushu. Early attempts at creating wushu forms were more traditional. I don’t know if it is a cut and paste of traditional forms or what. Flows like water though, fun to do.

[TenTigers]

the video is chopped up-the first section was the compulsory broadsword form based on the Fu Mei Dahn-dao-Tiger tail broadsword, which is a widely practiced traditional set.
'The rest of the form is just butchered techniques strung together.

[Dragonzbane76]

first part looks like a mantis sword form I learned once, after that it changes and i have no idea what it turns into.

[SanHeChuan]

Yes, I watched the whole video and it was indeed several different forms in that video. I was referencing the first form. Here is my video of the form (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpyDb_K2vLI). Done slowly for memory purposes. ;)

And here is an old thread that also discusses the form.

Fu May Dan Do-basic northern sword form????? (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=773512)

I don't know the origin of the form.

[MightyB]

I see some mantis Lok Hop Do in it, especially at the beginning and with a couple of the transitions. But there's a lot in it that's not Lok Hop Do.

[SanHeChuan]

Madame Wong Ju-Rong (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=653) is who my teacher learned it from.

her teacher/father was

Wang Zi-Ping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Zi-Ping)

So that's why I thought a Long fist / wushu connection.

Seven Star mantis has several mantisized long fist forms, from the Jing Mo, through Luo Guang Yu.

I would suspect that the southern systems also got their versions through contact with Northern styles, rather than the other way around.

[Fei Li]

Thank you everyone for your answers, it was exactly what I was hoping for!
:)

I had not realized before that the set is the same as my CLF broadsword…