So our system has a form called beef bone fan. I’ve searched all of and can find no information on it. Does anyone know anything about it?
Only what I can find on the internet It appears to come from Hung-Ga Ngauh Gwat Sin (Beef Bone Fan): This form, which was created by our Great Grandmaster Tang Fung, utilizes close range concealed techniques, locks, and pressure point strikes to disable an opponent. Unlike the fan forms of other styles, while still graceful, the Ngauh Gwat Sin utilizes the hard and soft Hung style techniques to demonstrate the practical yet destructive fighting spirit of our system.
Spot on, thank you. But im looking for information on the fan itself. What is a Beef Bone Fan exactly.??
Great to hear that you are still Hung-ing away Bklynjames. Fighting fans are a thing in Chinese kung fu. often made with steel ribs. as a weapon they are pretty niche in terms of who would carry them. I suspect that they have more to do with Opera than they do with being regularly carried as a weapon in the real world. They certainly look good and sound good in performances. I personally view fan forms to be about learning short stick techniques and how to improvise short stick weapons and not so much about fighting with a fan itself.
That's quite odd as Tang Fung made a point of only teaching what he had received from Wong. He refused to teach his personal weapon,the flying meteor,to anyone. I'm not sayin' it ain't so,but the idea that he created a form which he taught to anyone else seems questionable.Quite questionable. I cannot help but suspect that this is ....just a story .
Hi Tom, Yes still humming along even in this pandemic. Im getting to class about 3-4 times a week virtually. But being im on Guandao I have to go in for the one day a week. We have a few feet of snow on the ground atm and quite difficult to swing it in piles of snow. But yeah Im enjoying it immensely.
What is the flying meteor? Im not sure who taught Tang Fong the fan but I would like to know more about it.
I have an instrument made in vietnam and there are a number of inlays and components (e.g. the bridge) made of beef bone.
Hah. I literally took a 1 day class on this about 20 odd years ago. Think we tied a rope onto a ball instead of the "meteor". It was probably one of the easiest things to learn as you can pick up the "tricks" quite easily.
Mushroom, I was about to prostrate myself before your martial prowess! But then it took a closer look at your post. The knack to using a meteor is not learning tricks. but learning how not to kill yourself while performing tricks. Given the number of times that I have lost control and smacked myself with simple weapons like starves and swords, I elected not to learn the rope dart as discression is the better part of survival.