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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darius101" data-source="post: 577503" data-attributes="member: 9466">Wing Chun has these weapons:"Bot" Jam DohLong Pole - Taught to Leung Yee Tai and Wong Wa Boh and is essentailly the Shaolin long pole techniques. it si actually called the "Look Deem Boon" (6 and a half point pole)Yes the Shaolin teach 18weapons and 74 styles to their practicioners at the temple. They teach a wider variety than just 18, but the core learning is 18 weapons and 74 martial art styles. Why do you think they start so young?  You have been watching too much Kung Fu the T.V. Series with David Carradine. They opened their doors to Americans for a short period of time in the late 1980's and early 1990's. I was asked to go train with them but due to family obligations and my wife I was unable to trian with them. They Are coming to U.S.A. for demonstrations in the next few months if you would like to go watch them. They will be in Cleveland, Ohio in February. Chinese arts have over 2000 documented styles of martial arts and of these not all have weapons. So to make a statement that any Chinese school worth it's salt will teach weapon training is an insult based on ignorance.  Any chinese arts intructor will know his lineage and will refer to it as a family. Example being: I have trained in Wingchun and was taught by ------- whose teacher was  Yip Man and I am a second generation practioner from Yip Man the last grandfather before Yip Chun his son. Grandfather and Grandmaster are interchangeable at times at least with my teacher it was. Poison Hands is always a fun thing to learn along with Dim-Mak both of which teachings were hidden in other arts for many many years. Some people did not even know they were being taught these facinating arts. Enjoy, Darius</blockquote>

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