Figure I

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For those of you who have learned the Baat Jaam Dao, I find it interesting that the "figure I" or Yat Ge is performed in two distinct ways based, it would seem, on lineage.

If you're willing, I'd love to hear which way you do it and what you may have been told about it.

I also find it interesting that it's sometimes referred to in English as "Figure I" since they letter I doesn't mean anything in Chinese, but I won't let that distract me.

 

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1 in Chinese is pictured as a horizontal line

 

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1 in Chinese is pictured as a horizontal line

I think he said "I", not "1"

 

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For those of you who have learned the Baat Jaam Dao, I find it interesting that the "figure I" or Yat Ge is performed in two distinct ways based, it would seem, on lineage.

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If you're willing, I'd love to hear which way you do it and what you may have been told about it.

I also find it interesting that it's sometimes referred to in English as "Figure I" since they letter I doesn't mean anything in Chinese, but I won't let that distract me.

Hard to say without more context. Where is this in your knife form? What precedes and follows the pics you posted? What does "Yat Ge" mean?
Looking forward to the discussion! Its been fairly quiet here for a long time. Thanks for posting!

 

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1 in Chinese is pictured as a horizontal line

I think he said "I", not "1"

Right. This is the explanation that I got before. Logically there would be a character for the #1 and it would be a slash, but I have heard or seen this referred to as a "figure i", which doesn't make any sense. I don't know what "Yat Gi", "Yut Gui" means and it and I didn't mean to focus on that.