Seung Gaap Daan Gwan short clip

A short clip showing part of Choy Lee Fut Single and Double-head Staff (Seung Gaap Daan Gwan). This clip is from the advanced online students training program, part of the online Training Hall section at www.rolandomartins.pt.

This form teaches the student how to use one head, two heads, or both, and is one of the original weapons form created by the founder of the system, Chan Heung. Could be found in any Choy Lee Fut lineage, although with some differences between them.

Within direct Chan Yiu Chi lineages and later generations, this set is very popular and the first one to be taught along with the Single Broadsword (Dan Dou). Only then comes the more advanced and elaborated weapons, like the Spear and Double Edge Sword, among others.

A common error among Choy Lee Fut schools around the world is the frantic and compulsory teaching of forms without the proper mastery of the most basic ones. Single Broadsword and Single Double-head Staff should take at least 3 years of proper training, even if these two weapons are among the easiest to learn.

The techniques learned in this form could be later applied and adapted to almost any long weapon (and sometimes short weapons too) like the Spear, Hallebard, Monk Spade, Rake, Hoe, etc...

You can visit me at:
www.rolandomartins.pt
@rolmartinsgongfu