spear / pole arts
hi,
i do wing chun and yang taiji. as part of my wing chun i do pole form - 9 foot long chinese hardwood.
my question is this:
how are spear of pole forms set up in 'internal' martial arts. i presume that wing chuns pole form is fairly external, but would an internal pole form be internal - from what i read about what makes taiji, xingyi etc internal, it would be pretty difficult to simply translate that straight into the pole / spear. seems like a lot of taiji / xingyi is straight on ie down the centreline, wing chun pole is down a different line to this and so would taiji pole right?
so???
also, i'm interested form the perspective of medieval polearms, i hope to begin working with a dark age re-enactment group learning viking/saxon/norman pole and spear techniques and i'm interested in how different or similar these will be from the wing chun pole.
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