• Saturday 24 November 2011 h.14-18 c/o Shaolin Temple Italy
  • STAGE MULTICULTURALE : The Art of the Sword from East to West
  • with Shifu ShiHengChan and Fencing Master Mirko Novellini

In the past the differences between Chinese sword and its Western counterpart were very few, perhaps more in shape (see for example the plume on the pommel) that not in the mode of use. Both of varying lengths origin, weapons predominantly rush, with a knife whose hilt previous part is thicker to allow the parade and born with military purposes; only the Chinese, however, is in its present substance remained unchanged and very drawn to Western Sidesword of the sixteenth century .
The Western sword instead continued to change and today is more a piece of sports equipment that weapon veritable. Even if, in untrained hands, It can always be dangerous.
For his movements and features the Chinese sword recalls the Olympic saber, but the comparison holds and is binding even with the sword sport: priority target advanced to disarm the opponent and continue to target places in depth. It is a progression that any Master of Western sword teach today.
An important difference It can be identified in the management of the battleground: fixed and well anchored to the physical reality of the land in the West, more "air" in the East. The ability to "step over" the horizontal plane the opposing guard in the Western discipline there was only materialized at the beginning of '900, and he is experiencing its full development in recent decades (the so-called "flying shields" and the "flying shots"). Another difference is detectable to the extent that the combatants must keep, just for the fact that the knife blade is used to strike, as in today's saber. Pennacchio hilt and that does not protect the hand: Chinese sword has remained true to its military origins. Although the paths and the solutions are different, the principle is the same fencing: hit without being hit.

 

  • PROGRAM
    • Introduction
    • Brief history on the diversity of the two swords
    • Dimostrazione pratica Maestri
    • I Parte pratica
    • Studio dei fondamentali delle differenti armi
    • II Parte pratica esercitazioni
    • · spada cinese (forme)
    • · spada occidentale (assalti)

 

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    • (Il ricavato sarà interamente devoluto in beneficenza per l’Orfanotrofio Shaolin fondato dal Venerabile Abate ShiYongXin)
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