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Sifu Anthony Korahais demonstrating a spear pattern called "Bending Body Pierce Tiger"

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The Traveling Dragon Thirteen-Technique Spear is so called because the movements of the spear are like those of a dragon and there are thirteen main techniques. As a dragon, the movements are flowing and graceful but powerful.

The thirteen techniques are

1. ”huein” or circle
2. :cheong: or spear
3. ”sou” or sweep
4. ”thiew” or flick
5. ”yew” or wave
6. ”phut” or brush
7. ”ka” or “lift
8. ”ha ma” or ground
9. ”hui ma” or return-horse
10. ”chak shun” or sideways
11. ”phei shun” or slanting
12. ”pai tau” or shake head
13. ”khuen fa” or make flowers

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Seven of the Thirteen Techniques

Sifu Anthony demonstrates the thirteen main techniques of this Spear Set. The first seven techniques are shown in this video clip. They are circle, spear, sweep, flick, cover, brush (or separate) and ground.
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The Remaining Six Techniques

This video clip shows the six techniques, namely side, slant, lift, return-horse, shake-head and make flowers. Together with the seven techniques shown in the previous video, they make up the thirteen techniques of this spear set. Can you remember the difference between patterns and techniques?
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Spear Set Part 1

Sifu Anthony Korahais demonstrates the complete spear set. This video clip shows the first part up to the pattern “Green Dragon Shoots Pearl” in Sequence 3. The technique implemented in this Green Dragon pattern is spear or shoot.
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Spear Set Part 2

This second part of the impromptu performance by Sifu Anthony shows Sequence 3 and Sequence 4 of the set. It is remarkable that Sifu Anthony has learnt this set in just a day, and is performing it without prior preparation for the other participants to review.
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Spear Set Part 3

This video clip shows Sequences 4, 5 and 6 of the spear set. The class has just completed learning the set from Grandmaster Wong in one day, and Sifu Anthony is performing it without prior rehearsal for the course participants to review.
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Spear Set Part 4

This video clip shows the concluding Sequences 7 and 8 of the spear set. The course participants learn this set in a day from Grandmaster Wong, and Sifu Anthony is reviewing it in an impromptu demonstration.
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1. Introducing the Traveling Dragon Thirteen-Technique Spear
2. The Circling and the Thrusting Techniques of the Spear
3. Using the Spear against the Butterfly Knives and the Big Knife
4. Spear Counters against the Downward Chop and the Reversed Sweep of a Big Knife
5. The Spear against the Versatile Three-Sectional Staff
6. Circling and Shooting against Various Sweeps
7. Once you have the Skills, learning Techniques become Fast and Easy
8. Sharing Secrets of the Spear
9. The Shoot -- the Most Representative and Most Deadly of Spear Techniques
10. Learning Various Spear Techniques like Circling, Flicking and Lifting

11. How would you Counter the Downward Chop of a Big Knife?
12. Using the Spear like a Dagger or a Staff
13. The Spear Thrust and the Spear Shoot
14. Reviewing the first Five Sequences of the Set
15. Outside-Door and Inside-Door Applications
16. Covering the Four Corners against All Attacks
17. Remarkable Achievement at the Weapon Course
18. Making Flowers with the Spear
19. Various Ways of Making Flowers
20. Confusing your Opponents with Variations and Changes in Making Flowers

21. Learning the Spear Set in just Two Days
22. The Difference between Patterns and Techniques
23. The Thirteen Techniques of the Traveling Dragon Spear

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