Chinese Amry Sword Form

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When I studied kempo in the early 2000's I learned a weapon form for the Chinese army sword. It was similar to this:

but had a crawl on the ground bit that I've never seen since. Its driving me nuts that I can't find the same form I did. Is this familiar to anyone else?

 

[Xue Sheng]

Chinese military sword within the last 100 years a Da Dao, Other Chinese "swords" as we call them would be a Jian and various shorter types of Dao but that is none of those,

Stop looking for a sword form and look for a guandao (kwan dao) form. Another thing to consider, as far as I know, the Guandao has not been a Chinese military weapon since the Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912) and I doubt it was used much, if at all, by the Chinese military in the later Qing. It was used during the Ming (1368 to 1644)

 

[tshadowchaser]

TrafficLights, Sorry I can't help you But just wanted to say welcome to the forum

 

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We always called it army sword, or sometimes horse cutting sword; jian we called straight sword. Searching for pu dao brings up the most similar weapon to what I had (sadly I had to get rid of both my army sword and straight sword a few years ago after a cross country move). The rationale, I was told, for the crawling on the ground bit was you had like killed a horse, and it fell on you, and you were crawling out from underneath the corpse?

Whatever name I search under, I can find two different forms. A wushu form that is very different from what I knew, and the one above which is similar in style but lacks certain moves that I remember.