Ng Long Bat Gwa Gwun 五郎八卦棍

[Shaolindynasty]

SD:

You guys have Sheung Karp Dan Tow Kwun (single & double head staff) in your line also, correct?

I'm not sure is it known by any other name?

[CLFNole]

No other that I know of. The Karp is pronounced more like "gup" if it helps. I am pretty sure your sifu knows of the set. Pretty popular for CLF it is kind of our Ng Long Bat Kwa Kwun in terms of a famous southern staff set.

[Shaolindynasty]

He might know it.

At our school we tend to focus on Ng Long Bat Gwa gwun and Hung Jia Pang These teach us both long and eybrow height staff tehniques.

The single/double end staff is probally practiced by some in our lineage but I don't know for sure

[CLFNole]

We also practice Hung Jeh Pang. I have a book from Chan Kin Man (also from Fong Yuk Shu lineage) and while different you can tell it is basically the same set.

[Shaolindynasty]

The Chan Kin Man book is our hung jia pang exactly

[Jimbo]

The link below is the Choy Lay Fut version of the staff form 5th brother 8 triagram staff.

Whether or not this was absorbed into our curriculum from the hung ga version or modified from the the form "yang family spear" which I have seen from other choy lay fut practitioners, i do not know.

I just thought this would be interesting to post here because ng long bat gwa gwun is fairly typical in terms of southern staff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalkMY0WpS8

comments welcome

Nice set. I like the fact that the movements appear very compact and a lot of the single-ended techniques.

[GeneChing]

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