Soft Weapons: Nine-Section Whip and Rope Dart

by Kegin Li

Other authorsLi Xingdong
1996

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Li Kegin was born in 1942 and graduated from the Physical Education Department of Hebei Normal University in 1964. He is now deputy director of the Physical Education committee and director of the Physical Education & Research Office of the Daqing Oil institute. He is also a councilor of the
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National Committee on Postgraduate Physical Education and a member of the Northeast China Physical Education Committee of the Joint Association for Higher Education as well as the Heilongjiang Province Higher Education Committee's Physical Education Section. In addition, he is a chief compiler of the Basic Theoretical Knowledge for Physical Education and a chief editor of the Special Physical Education Theory.

Li Xingdong, born in Heilongjiang Province, China, in October 1953, graduated form the Physical Education Department of the Beijing Physical Culture Institute in 1979 with a specialization in Wushu. He entered the Chengdu Physical Culture Institute in 1984 as a graduate student in Wushu and received a master's degree in pedagogy in 1987. He now works at the Theoretical Research Department of the Chinese Wushu Research Institute. He was one of the compilers of the Chinese Wushu Dictionary and An Introduction to the Science of Wushu. He has published several articles on Wushu.

Soft weapons form one category of the weapons used in Chinese Wushu. They were considered hidden weapons, in ancient times and are ideal for self-protection. The nine-section whip and rope dart are two common soft weapons. Apart from giving a brief account of the origin, kinds, uses and development of soft weapons, this book is mainly devoted to the basic knowledge, routines and practice methods of the nine-section whip and rope dart. It is illustrated with more than 200 pictures. It is a good basic textbook for the use of the nine-section whip and rope dart.

Contents

1 Brief description of soft weapons
2 Nine-section whip
Origin
Structure
Technical features
Methods of movement
Relatioonship between speed and force points
Practice methods
Commn problems and solutions
Routines
3 Rope dart
Origin
Structure
Features of movement
Rules of movement
Stages for practising routines
Principles of practice
Routines
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ISBN

7119018833 / 9787119018836

Publication

Foreign Languages Press Beijing
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