The Monkey staff is a legendary weapon in Chinese martial arts culture, also known as the Golden Hoop, Sticksimply Ruyi Bang or Jingu Bang. Its movements mainly imitate the life habits of monkeys, and are combined with the techniques of martial arts stick fighting moves, forming a set of unique style of martial arts masterpieces.
Monkey Fist mainly absorbs the sensitive and witty characteristics of apes and monkeys, and combines the kicking, hitting, falling, taking, jumping, tumbling and other offensive and defensive techniques in martial arts. In the exercise and technique, it highlights the palm, claw, grasp and take of boxing, and the jump, dodge and move in body and footwork to show the lightness and dexterity of the ape’s arm, the robustness of the ape’s foot and jump, and the softness and liveliness of the ape’s body and the unity of the eye and mind. Its movement is like the wind, its stillness is like squatting, ape vertical brisk fly, light body like swallow.
1, paddle stick: the tip of the stick diagonally upward swinging around for paddle, paddle stick when the force is light and smooth, the amplitude should not be too large.
2, sweeping stick: stick tip in the waist below the horizontal swing; or try to stick tip to the ground, stick body tilt swing for sweep. Sweeping the stick requires swift and powerful, force to the tip of the stick.
3, whirling stick: one hand or both hands will be the tip of the stick to the left or right flat swing. Flat whirl shall not exceed one week, plus turn shall not exceed two weeks. Whirling stick requires swift and powerful, force up to the tip of the stick.
4、Poke stick: stick tip or stick handle straight forward, to the side or backward poke. Poke the stick requires a short force, the force reaches the tip end or the end.
5, split stick: stick from the top down for the split. Splitting stick requires swift and powerful, force up to the tip of the stick.
6、Standing circle dance flower: both hands hold the middle section of the stick body, so that the stick on both sides of the body from the top forward, down around the standing circle rotation. Requires continuous and fast, very close to the body when walking the vertical circle.
7、Take up the dance flower: hold the stick body with both hands at 1/3 from the end of the handle, make the stick along the left and right sides of the body from the bottom to the front, up to draw the vertical circle continuously forward. It is required to be fast and consistent, and the vertical circle should be close to the body but should not touch the body. They are mainly used in Monkey Style forms and climbing up this pole, standing on the side and jumping off is so much fun as well as technically difficult.
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