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Post by ride57 on Apr 30, 2012 1:38:53 GMT
I was at a gunshow today and saw a hard whip. The handle looked something like this www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12216 and the blade (?) looked sort of like this www.wle.com/products/W604-C.html (this is the closest thing I could find that looked like how the blade looked like. It was heavy. It was on a table from a local martial arts store. The guy said that it was from China, but he didn't know how old it was or who made it. It was $159.00 but I didn't sell my krinkov, so I didn't have any money.  I am regretting not asking him if he did lay-aways. |
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Post by Taiwandeutscher on May 1, 2012 0:05:40 GMT
I thing, you are talking about the so-called sword braker, a Chinese weapon, also pronounced jian (3rd tone), but written as 锏, 鐧. They have handles like in your 1st pic, but the "blades" are very different, come in square straight or bended variations, mostly used as pairs, in both hands, quite heavy, in order to break blades of lighter weapons.
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Post by Parasanctus on May 1, 2012 5:19:19 GMT
From your description it does sound like an iron whip. I found this website: shaolinkungfu.gr/curriculum, though I don't know how accurate the description is. 7-8 kg seems awfully heavy for a practical weapon. Here's an example from a museum on the top:  |
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Post by Taiwandeutscher on May 1, 2012 8:01:34 GMT
Yes, iron whip should do it in English. Copy the Chinese character into Chinese google and you'll get some more pics and vids. Here an example of Liuhe school, Chen style TJQ also does have that weapon. A pair might weigh 7 kg, 7 pounds each. |
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Post by Bushido on May 2, 2012 2:11:42 GMT
Makes me think of the Isutoshi manga Aiki, particularly this chapter: www.mangareader.net/159-10272-9/ ... er-43.html A hard whip, as a weapon breaker, means something like a hard and unyielding baton.The point of the weapon being as stiff and unflexible staff, able to simply punch its way through any oposing light weaponry. |
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Post by track86 on May 2, 2012 7:32:53 GMT
7kg is reasonable. I made a set using traditional dimension with aluminum and it weights ~6 pounds. A steel one will weight twice as much. People must be stronger back then
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Post by Taiwandeutscher on May 2, 2012 8:57:53 GMT
Ok, might be real heavy weaponry, lol.
And watching some forms, I saw that most moves are in circles, not changing direction abruptly, a must for such heavy stuff. Probably also good for training Jin.
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Post by MakChingYuen on Nov 8, 2012 19:22:38 GMT
I got one of those antiques stuff (as told by the seller they are antiques) and they weighted about 15lb each. kungfuonlineclass.com/goodweapon ... nwhip.html see my link here, it's my site and I got more photos up close there.. it's a great heavy weapon, great for training and surely you don't want to be hit by it. |
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