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Grandmaster Wong sandwiches Martin's spear shaft and moves in to slice his hands

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If an opponent attempts to hold your or disarm your Butterfly Knives, you can counter effectively by changing from your normal yang-grip to a reversed yin-grip.

How would you release your Butterfly Knives or your arms if an opponent locks them with his weapon? A skillful exponent of a Big Trident, for example, may employ the three prongs of the Trident to lock an opponent’s weapons or break his arms.

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Is it Necessary to Turn the Body Around?

Grandmaster Wong asks if any one can tell the combat application of “Double Swallows Turn Around”. He tells the participants that in observing a weapon application they should stand farther away to be safe. Sifu Anthony Korahais demonstrates the pattern “Double Swallows Turn Body”, followed by “Bail Moon from Sea Bottom” against Martin’s spear thrust. Is it necessary to turn the body around after deflecting the spear thrust?
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Sandwiching the Spear Shaft

Grandmaster Wong explains that it is not necessary to turn the body around after deflecting the spear thrust to move in to counter attack the spearman because the spear head has past your body and you have one of the Butterfly Knives to guard the spear shaft. To be double sure you may sandwich the spear with your two knives, using the pattern “Sharp Knives Trim Bamboo”.
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Turning Around to Avoid Spear Thrust?

Sifu Mark Appleford asks whether the body turning is to avoid the spear thrust, without having to deflect it. This will make the counter faster as you will use one pattern instead of two. What do you think?
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Li Hua Shakes Head

Grandmaster Wong explains that in this situation turning the body around would be unsafe because the spearman can uses the spear-blade to slice you applying the pattern “Li Hua Shakes Head”. (Li Hua was a famous Turkish princess who married a Chinese general of the Tang Dynasty.)
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Turning the Body to Release Lock

Grandmaster Wong explains that the turning of the body is to counter against the Big Trident or any weapon that locks your Butterfly Knives. As there is not a Big Trident around, Grandmaster Wong asks Martin to reverse the spearhead and imagine that it is a Trident. As you chop at your opponent with your Double Butterfly Knives, he “locks” your weapons or your arms with the three prongs of his Trident. If he turns his Trident he can disarm your weapons or break your arms. Turning the body is an effective way to defend against this attack.
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Three Purposes in One Movement

Grandmaster Wong demonstrates the mechanics of the pattern “Double Swallows Turn Body” in detail. Not only you will release your Butterfly Knives or your arms from the lock of the Trident, you also avoid its possible thrust or smash, and counter-attack him. You achieve three purposes with one movement.
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Difference between Bail Moon and Rhinoceros

Having explained the combat application of “Double Swallows Turn Body”, Grandmaster Wong continues with the other patterns of Sequence 6, namely “Bail Moon from Sea Bottom” and “Rhinoceros Looks at Moon”. Notice the difference between the two patterns. Then turn around with “Double Whips Strike Tiger” and repeat with the three other patterns.
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1. Introducing the Butterfly Knives
2. Fierce Tiger and Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros
3. How would you Counter a Spear Thrust?
4. Counters against Chops and Sweeps of Other Weapons
5. Butterfly Knives Against a Saber
6. The Secret of Performing Butterfly Knives with Force and Speed but Without being Tired
7. Yin-Yang Butterfly Knives and Close-Combat Applications
8. Some Interesting Applications of Butterfly Knives Held in Reverse
9. Combat Training with Weapons Must be Injury Free
10. How do you Release your Butterfly Knives from being Locked?
11. Learning to Make Flowers Systematically
12. Combat Applications of Double Butterflies Flying
13. Human-Character and Cross-Road are Found Here
14. Kungfu Training and Mental Clarity
15. Learning the Combat Applications of the Butterfly Knives against Other Weapons
16. The Benefits of Combat Training with Classical Weapons
17. From Slow and Systematic to Fast and Spontaneous
18. First-Class Kungfu Calls for Great Skills and Techniques

• Intensive Chi Kung Course
• Intensive Shaolin Kungfu Course
• Intensive Taijiquan Course

• List of Certified Shaolin Wahnam Instructors

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