Chen-style Spring and Autumn Falchion
Teaching demonstration performed by Chen Zhenlei
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Produced by Sports Audio-visual Publication, Beijing
ISBN 7887210364
The Chen style spring and fall great broadsword is one of the long weapons used in the Chen style taiji routines. This routine of broadsword play is one of the great ancestor of taiji boxing, Chen Wangting's favorite weapon plays.
Chen-style Spring and Autumn Falchion is also called the Black Dragon Lower Moon Falchion, which is one of the long weapons of Chen-style Taiji weapons routine. Its distribution is rational and its skills are clear, and it can gain advantage from both sides. When practicing, you must have the good basic of Taijiquan, and it is more important to have the power of waist, legs and arms. The falchion is a long and heavy weapon, so you want to use it freely, and you must have the full energy and force of waist and arms. Its skills include cutting, hacking, pushing, chopping, turning, rolling, twining and pressing, so it is one kind of powerful antipersonnel weapon and it is praised as 'the Commander of Weapons'.
A brief biography of Master Chen Zhenglei: Master Chen Zhenglei was born in the original place of Taichi ( Pinyin: Taijiquan) -Chen village, Henan province in May 1949, the 19th direct line successor of Chen-style Taichi, the president of Wenxian County Chen-style Taichi Research Society, the general adviser and head coach of Henan Chen Zhenglei Taichi Culture Co., Ltd, the vice-director of Henan Provincial Wushu Administration Center, Vice-president of Henan Wushu Association, national senior Wushu instructor, committee member of China National Wushu association, and association of State Physical Culture Science, and one of the "Top Ten Martial Arts Masters" of present day China.
