Thursday, 1 October 2009

Forms

As well as the 30 karate kata we also practice the 3 Wing Chun forms:

Sil Lum Tao
Chum Kil
Bil Jee

WC also has a form practiced on the Mok Jong wooden dummy.
At STMA we practice this form as a 4th unarmed form before applying it on a dummy and on a partner.

We also practice the Yang Tai Chi Short Form.

This gives us 5 additional unarmed forms.

For weapons:

WC has 2 weapons, each of which has a form:

Bart Charm Dao "8 Cut" swords or "Butterfly Knives"
Kwane - the "Dragon Pole"

Ok-Kob has a form for each weapon:

Bo, tonfa, nuncha, kama, sai

We actually have a total of 5 nuncha kata in STMA

Jap-kob has no forms for it's weapons, but we do have the
Jo form from aikido.

This makes a total of 12 weapon forms at STMA