A corrections officer I know walks around work with a hot cup of coffee whenever possible. Never drinks it though.
A corrections officer I know walks around work with a hot cup of coffee whenever possible. Never drinks it though.
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One of my favorite weird Chinese weapons are what I call "ducks on a stick". They are these double metal rods, topped with a metal duck that's shaped quite like a rubber bathtub duck. They are always practiced in pairs. I've seen several references and even a few vids, but I've yet to see them live.
A funky little resource on this, if you can still find a copy, is Ancient Chinese Hidden Weapons by Douglas H. Y. Hsieh. It's loaded with weird Chinese weapons.
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"I also like the one that's the shape of a man's body and the paired one that's a fist "
this is going to be an exercise in self-restraint....
must...not...post...
oh, go ahead - I deserve it...
Yes, I know the ones you speak of, cjurakpt. The fist-holding-spike is a variation of a fo shou (buddha hand). There are many Buddhist images that have many hands like the thousand-armed Kwan Yin. Typically each of these hands are holding a different tool, often weapons, but occasionally stuff like the spike. They are also often in different mudras. There's a fo shou type weapon that's a long pole, topped with metal hand that is in that mudra which is basically the cornu. I love that one too. It's very heavy metal.
As for the bronze man, here's my little anecdote about that. I used to work at American Fencers Supply, and during the summers, when business was slow, they would station me upstairs in the premium weapon/break room where I would hand draw images of our products for our xerographic catalog. This was before the days of digital photography, although if you search about on that website, you'll still be able to find my drawings (they make swords there so they're still on the medieval side ). Anyway, there I spent my summers for a couple of years, in this hot attic-like room, filled with our high grade swords, huffing ink and white out. Now, AFS is in the SOMA district of SF, near a lot of leather bars and halfway houses. We'd occasionally get some psycho street person coming in. Once this nut case grabbed a sword off the wall in our display room and started swinging. We all grabbed swords and chased him off, but after that, up there in that room, I always fantasized about another such intruder, in a stereotypic martial artist paranoid sort of way. Which of the premium swords would I grab? There was this little suit of armor statue that we had acquired and kept up there. It was about a yard tall. After seeing that bronze man reference, I always hoped to grab that first. I figured it would totally psych out any intruder. I've never seen a demo of that weapon (although I have a dusty memory of a movie reference). I'd love to see a real one.
Gene Ching
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i won't bring up sword-chuks because i find that i have played that topic to death so how about ...
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i have a set of big conch shells - each is big enough to stick a hand into and grasp.
That reminds me...I have a pair of tekko or iron shells from my Ryukyu kobudo training in Hawaii.
If you haven't seen these, they are spiked, stirrup-shaped iron "knuckle dusters." Almost all Ryukyuan weapons are derived from southern Chinese sources. So, does anyone know if these exist in Chinese arts? I don't recall whether they are featured in any of those old books on ancient Chinese weapons.
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