Real Shaolin Kung Fu: Shaolin Thirteen-movement Spear VCD
Performed and demonstrated by Shi Xingxia
Explained by Shi Deci
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Published by People's Physical Education Publishing House
ISBN 7887210437

The Shaolin spear is one of the important weapons in Shaolin Monastery. It was said in military strategy and tactics that "the spear is the king of all weapons." Since ancient times many famous generals took the spear to defeat the enemies and safeguard the country. For example, Monk Xiao Shan himself inflicted a crushing defeat on the enemy with the Shaolin spear. Monk Zhan Ju was well-known to the central China for his excellent spearing techniques. The routines of Shaolin spearing techniques are as follows: Shaolin spear, Meihua (plum blossom) spear, Liuhe (six-combination) spear, the thirteenth spear, the twenty-first spear, the thirty-first spear, Dahua spear, the eighteenth spear, the thirty-sixth spear and eighty-fourth spear.

Thirteen-movement spear has thirteen techniques. Thrust, raise with straight arm, cut, and chop are used again and again in actual combat. The techniques, which are blocking, thrusting, clouding, wrapping, pointing, and parrying can be used frequently.