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Kung Fu Weapons
Master Aaftab Siddiqui trains with a broad arsenal of Chinese weapons for conditioning the body as well as developing coordination and combat strategy. Weapons training commences generally after you become proficient in the basics, forms and applications training.
The basic concept of weapons training is to consider the weapon as an extension of your body. The same requirements for footwork and body coordination apply when wielding a weapon.
Staff, the most renowned weapon of Shaolin Kung-Fu, is the first weapon used at the early stage of Kung-Fu practices. Legend has it that Kinnara, who was a fireman in Shaolin Temple, defended the temple against the attack of the Red Scarf army during the late Yuan dynasty, with a staff and several staff skills were initiated by him. Then, in the mid-Ming Dynasty, the monk soldiers joined the battle against the pirates' invasion into the southeast coast, and thereby won great acclaims. Since the Ming dynasty, Staff techniques are inherited in a fixed form of movements. The book Shaolin Staff Technique, written by Cheng Chongdou, is a classic of Shaolin staff techniques. Representative forms of staff techniques: Shaolin Wind & Fire Staff, Yin Shou Staff, Short Staff, Big Yaksha Staff, Fire Staff, Monkey Staff, etc.